Tonk: A Local-First AI-assisted Coding System

People with sensitive data can’t safely use AI agents today: behavior is a black box, access is all-or-nothing, and no design patterns exist for human oversight. Eileen Wagner and the team from Tonk Labs, also incuding Gavin Owens, Irakli Gozalishvili, Jack D. Douglas, is building open infrastructure and the UX primitives that empower people to code with agents in a private and controlled environment.