Features · Session reports

Every session,
explained.

The moment your agent finishes, Backplanes writes the report you'd never write yourself — what it built, what it touched, and the few things that actually deserve your eyes. Skim it in a minute. Drill in when something asks for it.

Free · Works with Claude Code & Codex · No agent changes

A Backplanes session report

What it is

A session report is the write-up Backplanes generates the second your agent stops — a verdict, the findings worth acting on, where the time went, and the full story of the run. No dashboards to check. It’s waiting when you get back.

Anatomy of a report

One page tells you everything.

Built to read top to bottom in about a minute — the verdict first, the receipts underneath. Here's what each part is doing for you.

Full session report with the verdict, findings, time breakdown and story

Findings

Catch what you'd never scroll to find.

The agent shipped working code — and wrote an API key to disk and read 47 files outside the project on the way. Spotlight reads the whole transcript and pulls the handful of moments that need you, with the exact fix attached.

  • Credentials written to disk, echoed to shell, caught in output
  • Scope — files and directories reached outside the task
  • Every finding carries a one-click next step: rotate, tighten, add a policy
Take action findings: a credential written to disk and files read outside the project
From a live report · "Take action now"

Time & effort

See where the hours actually went.

A 51-hour run isn't 51 hours of progress. Spotlight classifies every minute and flags the time you'd want back — like the 15 minutes lost to orphaned daemons before cleanup got figured out.

  • Time split by code, shell, research, review
  • “Faster next time” — concrete time-savers, ranked by minutes
  • The honest denominator behind cost and duration
Where the time went, classified by tool category
From a live report · "Where the time went"

Patterns

Keep the habits worth keeping.

Reports don't only flag problems. They surface what your agent did well — the discipline worth turning into a rule — so good runs compound instead of staying invisible.

  • Good habits named and explained, not just the failures
  • Save as habit to hold the next run to the same bar
  • The receipts that back up “it shipped clean”
Patterns to keep, surfaced from the session
From a live report · "Patterns to keep"

The payoff

Read in a minute. Not an afternoon.

Directional numbers from how teams use Spotlight today — the point is the shape: less scrolling, more shipping.

10min
to review a session, not an afternoon of scrollback
5%
the part of the session that actually needed you, surfaced
+18%
review efficiency, quarter over quarter
100%
of the session observed — nothing left to memory
You’re the first one that comes close to actually helping me understand what on earth my developers are doing.

Security lead · medical-data company

Get started

See what your last session actually did.

One command. Your first report lands within minutes — free for you and your team.

curl -fsSL https://www.backplanes.com/spotlight/install.sh | sh