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Docket – Per-commit evidence records for agent-written code

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Interesting approach to documenting an audit record of changes instead of dumping info into commit description that clutters history. The one major risk not addressed by this vibe code is orphaned references are not a safe storage location. A `git prune` will delete them all since they are not part any head reference. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-prune

All the AI tools usually add "Co-Authored-By XXX" as a trailer on commits where an agent did most of the work.

Cheap and it survives every git tool.

What does this give me beyond that?

"Co-Authored-By" tells you an agent was involved, somewhere, in these 400 lines. It cannot tell you which lines, and it can't tell you anything about verification.

Who is this for? Who's looking at it? It seems like this is solving an engineering culture/process failure by introducing new engineering process. Like I'm trying to understand the circumstances where a) I don't have CI/mandatory reviews/PRs to organize changesets with things like intent and b) even though these commits are allowed to make it to main, I want to know this information. Is it to blame coworkers when things go sideways? To avoid deploying infra?

The cool thing about vibe coded projects is they don’t need to ask the question of intended audience. The author has happily delegated the entire process to Claude Code, which will have included affirmative answers to the important questions of scope, audience, feasibility and utility.

I don’t enjoy being so negative but it’s likely you’ve spent more time interrogating the concept than the author would have.

I'm genuinely curious, because clearly they cared enough to ask it to be built, and happy enough with it to publish and promote it. I have every confidence the author has a use case for it. But for the life of me I simply don't know what problem it actually solves. Claude wrote the README and is happily convinced of the utility of its work, but it beyond explaining how to run the tool, it doesn't explain why.

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