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Spotlight by Backplanes
Session reports for Claude Code & Codex to improve your code
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Session reports for Claude Code & Codex to improve your code
127 followers
Keep up with your agents. Spotlight reads your Claude Code and Codex sessions and shows you what your agents actually did, and how to get recursively better every session: what to fix now, what to ship better next time, what's worth sharing. One harness or seven, solo or across your team. Free.
Hey Product Hunt. We're Seth, Neil, and Nick, and we've spent a decade in security and dev tools across Google/Gmail, Valimail, Twilio, and Algolia.
We built Spotlight by Backplanes to help you keep up with your agents. It reads your Claude Code and Codex sessions and shows you what your agents actually did: session reports that make you a better engineer, every day.
This started with a scare. Neil asked Claude to fix one file. It read 47, including his ~/.ssh keys, and wrote an API key into a tracked .env. We build security software, and our own agents did this. We missed it, and caught it by accident while investigating something else.
So we looked deeper, stitching our Claude and Codex sessions together across machines. Two things floored us: how much we'd missed, and how many good moves we were making in one place but not another. Surfaced and shared, those patterns made us better, every day.
That's what Spotlight does for you. After every session, you get a report: what to fix now, what to ship better next time, what's worth sharing. One harness or seven, solo or across your team.
We're building toward a world where you can see and manage everything your agents do. Visibility is where it starts, and we think everyone deserves to know what their agents are doing, so we're making this piece free. We'll be offering paid features and automations in the near future; seeing what your agents did won't cost you. Private and secure by design, with details at backplanes.com/trust.
Install is one line, and your first report lands in ~2 minutes: Get started on backplanes.com.
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We hope you love Spotlight, and we can't wait to hear what it illuminates for you.
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@antifreeze congrats on the launch! Such a needed product right now.
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As of this year, I’ve become a “non-engineer engineer”, letting Claude and all his robot friends abuse my terminal. For example, the other day I just discovered how to actually use a `.env` file. Yes, I am embarrassed.
How was I forced to discover this? @antifreeze (who I've known for what? 20 years??) gave me a demo of Backplanes and in a reports on one of my coding sessions I saw red:
And this wasn't the only red I saw...!
Backplanes showed me the ugly underbelly of my agent sessions: leaked credentials, missing tests, sloppy patterns I’d normalized because the app I was building "worked".
By shipping like a maniac, I leaked my secrets all over the place — and Backplanes provided me actionable steps to get my shit locked down.
This isn't just “agent analytics.” It’s a backstop for the bullshit your coding agents quietly create while you’re moving at AGI speed. Like being shown what bacteria lives on your toothbrush when you stop to under a microscope. 🦠🤮
So if you haven't been practicing excellent agentic hygiene, give Backplanes a try.
Because behind every successful coding session is a backplane.
@chrismessina Twenty years and I pay it off by showing you the bacteria on your toothbrush. 😅 Don't be embarrassed about the red -- we build security software and our own reports lit up too. It would be embarrassing if it weren't happening to everyone.
"Non-engineer engineers" are exactly why we made seeing this free: everybody's shipping like maniacs now, and everyone deserves to know what their agents are doing. (And "behind every successful coding session is a backplane" is going on a shirt.)
had a blast collaborating with @gogogadgetneil @natwar86 and team!
Some recent discussions here pointed out that using a terminal like @Claude Code might feel too "zoomed out" from the code. Many prefer to stay in the loop and see what their agents are actually doing. [1]
@Spotlight by Backplanes fixed just that. It brings clarity to your agentic coding sessions and, more importantly, it compounds, making you a better engineer every session.
Go to backplanes.com to generate your first report in minutes - or see sample report here.
S/O to the ?makers, keep up the great work 👏👏
[1]: How do you like to work with AI coding agents?
The session report angle makes sense. What I'm curious about is how much signal you're actually extracting versus just replaying what happened. Claude Code sessions can get noisy fast, lots of back-and-forth, abandoned branches, retried prompts, and the raw transcript isn't that useful without some layer of interpretation on top. Does Spotlight surface things like where the agent got stuck, or which tool calls failed silently, or is the report mostly a structured summary of the final output? Also curious what the security topic covers here, whether you're flagging things like secrets exposed in prompts or risky code patterns the agent introduced, since that would be a genuinely different use case than the reporting side.
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Congrats @antifreeze - this is one of those products that feels obvious once you see it.
I’m using Claude Code/Codex every day right now, and the trade off is you don’t really know what got touched, what got skipped, or what weird security debt just got created. In our space making sure everything is tightened up and polished is a necessity more than ever.
Spotlight makes it clear what actually happened. Every team using agents seriously is going to need this. Bullish.
@armand thank you! "Obvious once you see it" is the best kind of compliment. Excited to hear what Spotlight illuminates for you-- and what you wish it showed. That's the stuff we want to build next!
@antifreeze curious what's on your product roadmap btw? anything you could share here?
@armand exactly! @Spotlight by Backplanes brings clarity to your sessions. it improves your code and makes you a better engineer.
S/O to @antifreeze @gogogadgetneil @natwar86 and team
Love this! As an enthusiastic-but-amateur engineer, this is super useful. The rapid evolution of coding agents are like katanas; incredibly powerful tools when used correctly. Wield them wrong and you'll cut your own arm off (I've done it many times). Having an expert keep tabs on ensuring both me and my agent(s) aren't going off-piste is critical.
Looking forward to see how Spotlight and Backplanes evolve.
@robskigb thanks for the support! IMHO you'll enjoy using @Spotlight by Backplanes as it doesn't just improve your code, it also makes you a better engineer.
Give it a spin and generate your first report on backplanes.com -- enjoy!
@robskigb Thanks! These agents are getting more and more powerful by the day and, as a wise man once said, "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility." We're excited to introduce Spotlight as a way to use these agents to their fullest, but also still be safe as you do it! Thanks again!
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There’s a tension right now between allowing your team to adopt cutting edge AI tools & maintaining good security practices. Backplanes is solving that so you can move fast without compromising on security.
Seth, Neil and Nick are the perfect team to be building this product and I’m thrilled to be an early tester and customer.
@walkeriwilliams Walker! You believed before there was anything to test, and you've kept the feedback sharp and neverending ever since -- in the best way. Spotlight is better for every round of it. Thank you. Keep it coming!