Launching today
Spotlight by Backplanes
Session reports for Claude Code & Codex to improve your code
594 followers
Session reports for Claude Code & Codex to improve your code
594 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.
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.
Tabstack
@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!
Spotlight by Backplanes
@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!
@robskigb Thanks for your support here! Looking forward to Backplanes being your sheath, or armor, or whatever the appropriate katana-analogy-extension would be. :)
@robskigb LOL I love the katana analogy. Gotta steal that! Now generate a report and give us something equally pithy about those, please 🤣
This hits a real blind spot with coding agents. They can move fast, but knowing what they quietly touched, broke, or exposed afterward feels just as important as the code they shipped.
Thanks, @farrukh_butt1 "quietly" is the certainly operative word: the touching, breaking, and exposing all happen mid-flow, in the part nobody's watching, while the shipped code gets all the attention. :)
Forage Mail
Spotlight replaced a bespoke string of skills I would have to run by hand. Super helpful!
Spotlight by Backplanes
@richiebonilla agreed! we think there's a real opportunity here for Spotlight to help build better skills for engineers on the fly based on the content of these reports. We're excited to make engineers who use coding harnesses faster, safer and more cost effective!
@richiebonilla, "a bespoke string of skills run by hand" is exactly the ritual we kept finding, and living ourselves. Replacing yours is about the highest compliment a tool like this can get, so thank you.
This is rad. kind of terrifying to see how much some of my sessions cost!
@yrechtman "Rad and kind of terrifying" is the almost universal reaction so far. ;-)
It's the bar tab after a great night: the fun was real, and now there's an itemized record of exactly how.
The difference is this tab works for you. It shows what drove the cost, and the biggest line items usually turn out to be the easiest fixes: the same dead end paid for ten times, an agent left grinding away on the wrong thing.
Curious to hear if your next session's number behaves.
Product Hunt Shop
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!
looks really cool! Gonna take it for a spin
Tabstack
@louislecat lfg! here you go: backplanes.com
looking forward to your thoughts
@louislecat amazing! excited to hear what you think and what you'd like us to build next!
ZapDigits
Congrats on the launch and best of luck today. Looking forward to seeing how developers use Spotlight to build better feedback loops around their AI-assisted development process.
Thanks@malithmcrdev Malith! "Feedback loops" is exactly the right frame, and it's the whole bet: agents sped everything up except the part where the human gets better. Watching the first reports land today and seeing what people fix first has been the best part of launch day so far. :)