--- title: GitHub - evansjp/grepathy: Your agent writes down why,... description: Grepathy is a CLI tool that captures and preserves the reasoning behind decisions made by AI coding agents (like Claude Code) during development. It reads... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/github---evansjp-grepathy-your-agent-writes-down-why-in-the-repo-so-everyone-else-s-agents-can-fi-25ciajsxe twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GitHub - evansjp/grepathy: Your agent writes down why, in the repo, so everyone else's agents can find it without asking you. | daily.dev og:description: Grepathy is a CLI tool that captures and preserves the reasoning behind decisions made by AI coding agents (like Claude Code) during development. It reads... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/github---evansjp-grepathy-your-agent-writes-down-why-in-the-repo-so-everyone-else-s-agents-can-fi-25ciajsxe og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/25CiaJsXE.png og:image:alt: GitHub - evansjp/grepathy: Your agent writes down why, in the repo, so everyone else's agents can find it without asking you. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GitHub - evansjp/grepathy: Your agent writes down why, in the repo, so everyone else's agents can find it without asking you. **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Grepathy is a CLI tool that captures and preserves the reasoning behind decisions made by AI coding agents (like Claude Code) during development. It reads session transcripts locally, extracts key decisions, and writes them to a markdown file committed alongside the code. This lets reviewers, teammates, and future agents understand why certain choices were made — even after transcripts are deleted. It integrates via git hooks, never blocks pushes, and keeps all transcript data local for privacy. The tool is especially useful for surfacing agent-initiated decisions that weren't explicitly requested, and for injecting relevant historical context into future agent sessions before they edit related files. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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