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Igor Ganapolsky
Igor Ganapolsky

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Free control. Paid continuity. Two decisions your coding agent needs.

If you live in Cursor (or Claude Code, or Codex) all day, the IDE feels like the control plane.

It isn't — not once you walk away.

Decision 1: Can this tool call run?

Agents with shell access don't fail like unit tests. They fail like ops incidents: the command already ran.

A useful outer loop is boring:

  1. Agent proposes a tool call
  2. Human gets approve / deny before execution
  3. Deny means stop — not "log it for later"

I put that path on a free web dashboard: pair a Mac once (connector dials out over HTTPS — no inbound ports), open a browser, approve or deny. That's Web Control at $0/month on ThumbGate.app while the machine is online. Leash-style approvals ride that free path — not a fake "pay to stop the agent" upsell.

Decision 2: If the Mac disappears, who finishes the work?

Chat UIs skip this. Real operators need an offline policy:

  • Pause
  • Ask
  • Continue on a fenced VPS runner (paid Continuity)

I ship Continuity, and I will not pretend it's fully battle-proven. Live product copy still says we're proving it out in real use. Price is Live price in-product (Stripe-driven) — don't trust a blog post for a dollar figure.

Team tier includes a Priority Fly.io cloud VPS runner as a listed feature. ThumbGate is not affiliated with Fly.io (or Cursor, Anthropic, OpenAI, Nous Research). Naming the tech is not a partnership claim.

Adjacent work: credentials vs. tool approval

Last week's HN attention on credential gateways for agents is healthy. Keeping secrets out of prompts is necessary.

It is not sufficient. Correct credentials on a bad command still hurt.

If your pain is runaway loops and pre-action gates rather than remote control, start here:

Also on phone

Same remote for Hermes agents, paid store download (verify live price on the store page):

Building in public

Almost no real customers yet. If "two decisions" is the wrong product shape, tell me — that's more useful than a polite like.

Try the free browser path: thumbgate.app

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