Spotlight by Backplanes
A dashcam for your AI coding assistant — after Claude Code or Codex finishes a session, Spotlight shows you exactly what it touched, what commands it ran, and flags anything risky, instead of you having to trust a summary or dig through logs yourself.
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Description
When an AI coding agent works autonomously for a while, it's easy to lose track of exactly what it changed, which commands it ran, or whether it reached out to some external service it shouldn't have. Spotlight reads the session afterward and turns that black box into a readable report: which files were touched, which commands ran, what external tools were contacted, and anything that looks worth a second look before it ships.
Spotlight by Backplanes reads Claude Code and Codex sessions and generates post-session reports covering files touched, commands run, external domains/MCP servers contacted, scope drift, and security-risk findings with severity triage and PII/credential redaction, organized into Security, Engineering, and Spend views for teams. It's built by a team with backgrounds from Google, Twilio, Valimail, ngrok, and Algolia, backed by investors including Slow Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, and Fenwick. It's free for individual developers and their teams (no seat counting, no trial clock), with a separate paid tier for organizational rollouts whose exact pricing isn't published.
💬 Our review
The short version: as AI coding agents get trusted with more autonomous work, Spotlight is solving the very real "what did it actually do" visibility gap, and being free for individuals removes any friction to just turning it on and seeing what it surfaces.
Compared to just reading raw agent transcripts yourself, Spotlight's value is the structured triage — severity-scored security findings and a spend view, not just a wall of text — which matters once a team has enough agent sessions running that manual review doesn't scale. There isn't yet a well-established direct competitor doing exactly this (session-level audit reports specifically for Claude Code/Codex), so it's an early mover in a category that will likely get more crowded as agentic coding grows; the main unknown is what the paid organizational tier actually costs, since that's not published.
💰 Pricing
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
Gratuit pour développeurs individuels et leurs équipes (sans limite de sièges) ; palier payant pour déploiement organisationnel, tarif non publié
Pros
Gratuit pour les développeurs individuels, sans limite de sièges
Rapports structurés : sécurité, ingénierie, dépenses
Rédaction automatique des PII/identifiants dans les rapports
Équipe fondatrice expérimentée (Google, Twilio, ngrok, Algolia)
Cons
Tarif du palier organisationnel non publié
Catégorie encore jeune, peu de concurrents établis pour comparer
Date de lancement non précisée