Spotlight by Backplanes
Session reports for Claude Code & Codex to improve your code
703 followers
Session reports for Claude Code & Codex to improve your code
703 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.
Kilo Code
@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!
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@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. :)
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@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!
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@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.
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What a launch day. THANK YOU, Product Hunt. 🔦
#3 Product of the Day, and honestly the part we'll remember is this comment section. You showed up with war stories, hard questions, and lines better than our own copy ("invisible until it isn't" -- still thinking about that one).
Huge thanks to @fmerian for hunting us and being everywhere in this thread all day, to @chrismessina for the support and one very relatable .env confession, and to the @Spotlight by Backplanes team -- @gogogadgetneil, @nick_vlku, Andrew, and Christina -- what you pulled off this week was incredible.
And we heard you on what to build next:
More harnesses: Cursor, Cowork, Copilot
Windows support
Deeper reads on quality of work, and the "why" behind agent choices
Catching the things agents SAY are done but aren't
Automating the insights, so your agents get recursively better without you lifting a finger
Keep telling us what you wish you could see -- we want to build this all for you, and we read every comment you make. 🔦
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.
Congratulations, @gogogadgetneil and team. This is much needed - way more than many realize. My experience was similar to what Neil shared on the LinkedIn post about unseen changes made or even files read outside a project being worked on.
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@gogogadgetneil @srinath_murthy we couldn't agree more! We hear this ad nauseam from everyone we talk to, and are so glad to help people meet this need. Would love to learn from you what connects most about the reports, and what work you'd love to see tackled next!
As an engineer who gets flak for not selecting "auto accept edits" and wanting to observe and approve most (if not all) actions Claude does, I love this idea. This kind of insight is sorely needed.
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@dan_dias You're the engineer the rest of us pretend to be 😄 And your instinct is right: paying that much attention is the only honest option today, and you still miss things (I bet you're not watching all the subagent tool calls, are you?). There has to be a better way -- the speed without the babysitting, where you see and manage what actually matters instead of approving every single action. That's the bet we're making. Try it and tell us if it lets you loosen the grip a little because you can now catch what matters without needing to inspect it all. And then we'd love to hear what you want from us next!