Stop Context Pollution &
Lock Down Your AI Agents.
Don't feed your AI coding assistant bloated repositories. Sprawl compiles a single, zero-waste configuration manifest into native IDE settings and MCP configs instantly.
Secure Workspace Containment &
Spend Telemetry for AI Agents.
Lock down autonomous programming agents to project folders. Prevent data exfiltration, ensure compliance, and track local model spend out-of-band.
Downloads the install utility and isolates dependencies using virtual environment containers.
Antigravity
Copilot
VS Code
IntelliJ
Cursor
Visual Studio
Claude
Gemini
Antigravity
Copilot
VS Code
IntelliJ
Cursor
Visual Studio
Claude
Gemini
Up and Running in 3 Steps
Synchronize your engineering rules and connect adapters to codebases within minutes.
Step 1
Import your organization's global rules repository onto your local development machine securely.
$ sprawl init
Step 2
Navigate to any software project directory to apply the standard inherited rules baseline.
$ cd legacy-service
$ sprawl graft
Step 3
Select relevant local overrides and compile configuration endpoints dynamically.
$ sprawl sync
Configure your workspace
A visual TUI to customize your workspace DNA. Select active personas, rules, and skills, define paths, and compile bindings for your IDE assistants. See how to customize your rules, skills, and personas.
Navigate: Click to Select | Toggle: Click/Space | Confirm: Click Sync
Product Philosophy
Designed for teams who require deterministic, optimized, and secure interactions with autonomous programming agents.
Zero Dependency Hell
No bulky package locks. Sprawl uses direct, predictable configuration inheritance and builds static files matching environment definitions.
Model Context Protocol
Integrates directly with MCP services, binding credentials and runtime targets securely into localized workspace structures.
Instant Drift Audits
Check if developer workspace instructions deviate from global repositories instantly with sprawl diff before committing code.
Zero-Leak Telemetry
Natively harvests audit trails out-of-band on the developer workstation. Aggregates prompt timelines and agent calls behind your firewall.
Deterministic Guardrails
Enforces directory-locked file permissions via stdio-based MCP. Intercepts out-of-bounds agent calls and returns instant containment errors.
Economic Cost Auditing
Identifies prompt token waste by tracking context coverage metrics. Helps team leads optimize prompt registries and slash API costs by up to 40%.
Model Execution Safeguards
An active simulation demonstrating how different language models process sandboxing guardrails under Sprawl containment rules.
Secure Sandbox Fencing
An active sandbox boundary demonstrating how Sprawl blocks path-traversal escapes (`../../etc/passwd`) at the terminal boundary.
Zero Platform Lock-In
If Sprawl doesn't match your workflow patterns, strip everything out cleanly with a single command.
sprawl wipe
Local-First Telemetry Auditing
Aggregate prompt timelines, file context paths, and agent runtimes locally behind your firewall.
sprawl status
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Sprawl?
A free, local CLI that locks down your AI coding assistant configs. You write your rules once, Sprawl compiles them into native settings for VS Code, IntelliJ, Cursor, Visual Studio, and more. Everything lives in a .agents/ Git folder. No cloud. No account. Just one command.
How does Sprawl secure my code?
It sandboxes your workspace. AI agents can't escape the project boundary, touch parent directories, or leak credentials to external APIs. Sprawl maps every file path and restricts process-level access, so your IP stays on your machine, not in someone else's training set.
Does Sprawl collect telemetry or phone home?
Zero telemetry. Zero analytics. Zero network calls. Sprawl runs 100% on your local machine with a minimal, audit-verified dependency tree. You can read every line of it, it's BSL 1.1 licensed.
Which editors and AI tools are supported?
VS Code, IntelliJ, Cursor, Visual Studio, Claude, Gemini, and Google Antigravity, all from a single config. Sprawl is completely model-agnostic and IDE-agnostic, auto-compiling native workspace bounds and rules for any editor and LLM engine.
How do I configure rules, skills, and personas?
Drop markdown files into .agents/rules/, .agents/skills/, and .agents/personas/. They're version-controlled in Git, so changes go through pull requests like any other code. Run sprawl sync to compile, done.