Git why
log your agent reasoning trace along your code
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I was frustrated with not being able to know why the code written by my colleague agents was in the codebase, so I build a tool to version agent trace along code in git.
HN · launched Apr 11, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 38%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent observability platforms · 220 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -64% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Git-why is a CLI tool that captures agent reasoning traces and attaches them to git commits (likely using git notes or metadata files), a straightforward CLI scripting project.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #372 of 797 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 159 days after the earliest competitor.
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