{"slug": "show-hn-spotlight-shows-what-your-claude-code-codex-are-doing", "title": "Show HN: Spotlight shows what your Claude Code/Codex are doing", "summary": "Backplanes launched Spotlight, a tool that monitors Claude Code and Codex AI coding sessions to identify security issues, performance bottlenecks, and token waste. The tool installs as a CLI daemon, scrubs PII and secrets locally, and stores encrypted session data with customer keys in AWS Secrets Manager. Spotlight is free and available at backplanes.com, with Windows and native apps coming soon.", "body_md": "Hola HN!\n\nLong time lurker, sometimes commentor, first time poster here. I’ve been working alongside my two co-founders and a few colleagues on a project I’m excited (and a little nervous) to share with you all!\n\nLike many of us, I’ve lived a tortured existence with AI coding (is it vibes?) over the past few months - I think November was a big moment with this. But, one thing I’ve noticed after building orchestration layer after orchestration layer is that the thing I always came back to was “what the hell is Claude Code actually doing?” Perhaps it’s because of the time Claude Code got confused and “rm -rf”’ed root, or the time it deployed a feature flag flip to prod instead of stage, or the time it got stuck in a cycle of doom logging in with playwright, etc etc - but it inspired us to build this tool; we call it Spotlight by Backplanes.\n\nSpotlight takes your Claude Code and Codex sessions and finds security issues, things that could be sped up, and where you’re burning your time and tokens. We also create fun little archetypes of what kind of builder you are.\n\nThe way it works: you install a backplanes CLI daemon/TUI that takes your Claude and Codex sessions, scrubs them of their PII and secrets locally, sends them to us where we do a second level scrub using a locally hosted model, and store your sessions row level encrypted with customer keys. Today we create and store the customer keys in AWS secrets manager, which we can’t access directly. Doing this work hosted lets us stitch sessions across machines and multiple harnesses and even gives you the ability to give team-level patterns. Details are at [https://backplanes.com/trust](https://backplanes.com/trust).\n\nYou can see an example report at [https://backplanes.com/features/session-reports](https://backplanes.com/features/session-reports), To play with this, it's a one-line CLI install (yes, there's a signup, I'm sorry), and it's free at backplanes.com. In the coming weeks we will be releasing a Powershell version along with native MacOS and Windows apps.\n\nPlease let us know what you all think. Thanks guys and gals!\n\nNick\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545168](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545168)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-spotlight-shows-what-your-claude-code-codex-are-doing", "canonical_source": "https://www.backplanes.com:443/", "published_at": "2026-06-15 18:24:54+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-15 18:38:25.396205+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-safety", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Backplanes", "Spotlight", "Claude Code", "Codex", "AWS Secrets Manager"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-spotlight-shows-what-your-claude-code-codex-are-doing", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-spotlight-shows-what-your-claude-code-codex-are-doing.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-spotlight-shows-what-your-claude-code-codex-are-doing.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-spotlight-shows-what-your-claude-code-codex-are-doing.jsonld"}}