Canary (YC)

About Canary (YC)

Canary is the independent tester for code your agents write. It runs your app, tries to break every change, and reports what would have reached production. Start with one line in your coding agent.

In the maker’s words

Hey HN, we are Aakash and Viswesh and we are building Canary ( https://www.runcanary.ai/ ) - independent verification for AI code. Claude/Codex calls Canary with the changesets, intended behaviour and team knowledge. Canary then deploys agent swarms to investigate potential failures and test suspected runtime bugs in remote sandboxes. To try it on your repository, paste this into your coding agent: Install the Canary CLI with npm i -g @runcanary/cli, then run canary skills and follow its instructions to onboard this repository. Verification starts with what software is supposed to do and most importantly what it must never allow. This means investigating how inputs, permissions, state, timing, dependencies etc interact with each other. Intent is not always fully declared as well but many expectations are clear: private files should stay private, credentials should not leak, and retries s…

Where people found it

• Hacker NewsShow HN: Canary (YC) – Independent verification for AI code8 points0 comments16 days ago