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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
704 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 to see this product, what's most valuable insight you learn from user's work in Claude Code?
Please just take my money.. I will love to try it out
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@vicky_fu Vicky! Two insights stand out.
coding agents are shockingly sloppy with credentials -- secrets land in places they have no business being, constantly, and almost nobody notices.
long sessions quietly leak a surprising amount of time, tokens, and money -- and once you can see what's going on, it's easy to tighten up with the right patterns and replicate them everywhere you work. Recursive self-improvement, with you in the loop.
Can't wait to hear what your first report shows you, and what you'd like to see next!
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@odeth_negapatan1 honest answer: the most eye-opening pattern wasn't actually a risk. When we stitched our own sessions together, the scary stuff was there (an API key in a tracked file started this product), but the bigger surprise was how many good moves never traveled. One of us had solved a problem cleanly, in one session, on one machine, and the rest of us kept burning time on the same thing for weeks. Nobody was hiding anything; there was just no surface for the unlock to move across. That discovery was a genuine unlock for us, and is a core part of why Spotlight focuses so heavily on highlighting effective patterns worth sharing..
What I've found fascinating is almost every first report we've watched land in person contains one thing the person would have sworn didn't happen. That moment is kind of the product. Curious what yours catches, if you give it a run. :)
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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.
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@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.
S/O to @antifreeze @gogogadgetneil @natwar86 and team
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@armand @antifreeze @gogogadgetneil @natwar86 reposted on LinkedIn - let's spread the word!
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. :)
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Spot on! Go to backplanes.com and generate your first report. Curious to have your thoughts about the result 👀
"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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Amazing! FYI you can see a sample report here: https://www.backplanes.com/features/session-reports
Curious to have your thoughts about it
@david_marko, the end-of-session log is the certified power-user move, and you've described our origin from the other side: we were hand-rolling the same ritual and got tired of it. :)
If you're open to it, I'd love to see what would happen if you ran your hand-rolled log running for a week alongside Spotlight, and then let us know what your log caught that we missed, or vice versa. That kind of feedback is gold for us, and it sounds like you're exactly the right type of person to give it.
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!
@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. :)