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I’ve been thinking about a simple problem: We’re increasingly merging AI-assisted code into production, but we rarely preserve the thing that actually produced it — the session. Six months later, when debugging or reviewing history, the only artifact left is the diff. So I built git-memento. It attaches AI session transcripts to commits using Git notes.

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> the only artifact left is the diff

You also have code comments, docs in the repo, the commit message, the description and comments on the PR, the description and comments on your Issue tracker.

Providing context for a change is a solved problem, and there is relatively mature MCP for all common tooling.

Not to mention AIs predilection for copious and overly abundant comments.

The former GitHub CEO has a startup and this was their first release. They call it checkpoints: https://entire.io/

I copied it for my own tooling to make it work a bit better for my workflows.

Have you been using it? How useful do you find it?

A better solution would be to read and understand the code before committing it.

People won’t do that, unfortunately. We are a dying breed (I hate it). I went against my own instincts and vibe code this, works as a proof of concept.

You can see the session (including my typos) and compare what was asked for and what you got.

Your starting point is that people won’t read code, and you expect them to read someone’s llm session from git?

Another LLM will read it of course.

Sounds like we've got an Ape Coder here!

https://rsaksida.com/blog/ape-coding/

Related ongoing thread:

Ape Coding [fiction] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206798 - March 2026 (93 comments)

Personally, I'm not going to be complicit in reshaping the field around the lazy and undisciplined.

I already invented this in my head, thanks for not making me code it.

Excellent idea, I just wish GitHub would show notes. You also risk losing those notes if you rebase the commit they are attached to, so make sure you only attach the notes to a commit on main.

I added an action that will add a comment with the notes in GitHub so that you can see them directly.

I did work around squash to collect all sessions and concatenate them as a single one

Well done.

There is so much undefined in how agentic coding is going to mature. Something like what you're doing will need to be a part of it. Hopefully this makes some impressions and pushes things forward.

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