Launching today
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
356 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.
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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!
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@antifreeze curious what's on your product roadmap btw? anything you could share here?
@fmerian Ha, fair question. Happy to share the general compass, even if I have to hang on to the detailed map for now. ;-)
The direction is in the name: Spotlight is the visibility and advisory layer, illuminating what's happening. The plan for Backplanes is not just being able to see, but to manage/shape everything your agents do, whether you're an individual user or an enormous organization.
Where we're pushing next with Spotlight, directionally:
Deeper: richer insights on individual sessions as well as richer cross-session and team-level patterns.
Broader: more harnesses and agent surfaces beyond Claude Code and Codex.
Automated: from reports to actions. Today a Spotlight finding hands you advice on how to resolve an issue; over time, more of that loop gets automated.
What I'd love from this thread: tell me which harness you'd want next, or what a report should catch that it doesn't today.
We're building this for builders and creators like you, and nothing steers the roadmap like hearing it straight from you.
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@armand exactly! @Spotlight by Backplanes brings clarity to your sessions. it improves your code and makes you a better engineer.
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Hey congrats on the launch!
This looks really promising. I’ve had way too many Claude sessions where I come back after a break and have no clue what just happened in the project. The automatic capture + those session summaries with the “needs review” flags feel like such a sanity saver.
@van_ho : Thanks, Van! "Come back after a break and have no clue what just happened" is exactly the moment we built this for. If you give it a run, I'd love to hear what your first report catches. :)
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.
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@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!
"Recursively better every session" is exactly the missing piece I keep hand-rolling. I write a tiny end-of-session log after every Claude Code run and the gold is always the same: what I had to babysit and why. Automating that and feeding it back as a skill/memory primitive will save hours per week. Free + multi-harness is the right packaging. Following.
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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!
looks really cool! Gonna take it for a spin
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@louislecat lfg! here you go: backplanes.com
looking forward to your thoughts