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GitWhy
Bring AI reasoning to every commit and PR for your team
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Bring AI reasoning to every commit and PR for your team
21 followers
GitWhy is the context layer for git that captures the prompt, reasoning, decisions, and changed files from Claude Code, Cursor, and other coding agents, tied to the commits that produced them. Share that context with your team and surface it directly in GitHub PRs for faster, clearer reviews.
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Quan, founder of GitWhy. 🎁 For the PH community, we're offering 14 days of Premium free for teams up to 5 seats @ gitwhy.dev
The problem & Why we built this
AI is changing the bottleneck in software. Writing code is getting faster and cheaper, but reading it, reviewing it, and keeping up with the pace AI produces it is not.
This became very real for me during a hackathon. I was building with another developer, we were both moving fast across multiple coding sessions, and it quickly became hard to debug or pick up each other’s work because so much of the context lived inside the agent chat. We could see the code, but not the reasoning that produced it.
That’s when it clicked for me: once the code is committed, the prompt, reasoning, decisions, and rejected alternatives disappear. Reviewers just see the diff. They have no idea what the agent was thinking.
How it works
GitWhy helps developers save the context behind AI-generated code, tie it to the commits that produced it, and surface it directly in GitHub PRs. That way, your team can review the "why," not just the code.
It works with Claude Code, Cursor, and other coding agents. Finish a coding session, tell your agent to save it with GitWhy, keep that context locally, share it with your team, and surface it in GitHub PRs when it’s time to review. Git-native by design — explicit save, commit-linked provenance, and PR delivery via GitHub.
What's next
🔭 In the near term, we're making GitWhy more useful inside everyday developer workflows: better retrieval of past decisions, better semantic context search, and more git-native retrieval workflows like `git blame` for reasoning.
My mission
My vision is simple: as agents write more and more of our code, the intentions behind every decision become the most valuable thing a team owns. I want to make sure that reasoning is never lost again.
Thanks for checking out GitWhy and being part of this journey. I’d love to hear your thoughts, questions, and feedback in the comments. Let’s make AI-generated code easier for every team to understand and review.
— Quan