{"slug": "show-hn-fieldrook-a-local-first-windows-troubleshooting-workstation", "title": "Show HN: FieldRook – a local-first Windows troubleshooting workstation", "summary": "A Swedish onsite technician released FieldRook, an open-source, local-first Windows troubleshooting application that collects diagnostics, traceable observations, hypotheses and verifications so support staff can show users why a fix worked. The tool treats AI as an optional feature and does not give it direct access to run commands, and the first version is unsigned and still needs broader field testing on Windows machines beyond the developer's home PC. The developer is seeking feedback on the GitHub repository, including whether the tool would help in day-to-day IT support and how its security model holds up.", "body_md": "Please have a look at my opensource project FieldRook, here is a short description over it.\n\nI am working as a Onsite Technichan in Sweden and i got tired of trying to puzzle togheter different windows-logs and throubleshooting steps to get forward in our tickets, and the logging started to get a real nightmare. Specially to prove for the users why it actually solved the problem and not just giving them a random \"Well, it said so in the guide i read\"-Type of answer.\n\nSo I started building a Windowsapp that actually collects diagnostics, traceable observartions, hypothesis and verificiations. AI is a chooseble option and not something that gets direct access to run commands and such.\n\nThis is a first hand version, it's currently unsigned and needs a much larger field-testing on windowsmachines. I have a hard time testing it inside our work-domain thanks to all of our security policys and such, so have mostly been running it on my local PC at home. If someone would like to have a go at it, please check out the GitHub-repo and download it and give me some feedback on what you liked and not. What worked and not.\n\nIf other people that work in IT-support actually tried it, do you think it would actually help out in a day-to-day basis? What would you change in it, what is missing and how would you concider the securitymodel at the moment?\n\nThanks in advance!\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50495476](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50495476)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-fieldrook-a-local-first-windows-troubleshooting-workstation", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/Rookweld/FieldRook", "published_at": "2026-11-14 09:27:37+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-14 09:49:49.044283+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["FieldRook", "GitHub", "Windows"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-fieldrook-a-local-first-windows-troubleshooting-workstation", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-fieldrook-a-local-first-windows-troubleshooting-workstation.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-fieldrook-a-local-first-windows-troubleshooting-workstation.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-fieldrook-a-local-first-windows-troubleshooting-workstation.jsonld"}}