Co vs Trace

Every AI coding agent signs its commits with a forgeable plain-text line.

A macOS menu-bar app that turns any conversation into a clean markdown transcript, with an optional on-device summary. Runs a local speech model entirely on your Mac, in...

About Co

Every AI coding agent signs its commits with a forgeable plain-text line. Co-authored-by is a Lie: Cryptographic Provenance for AI Coding Agents . It matters now, because the attribution metadata is starting to be used to make trust decisions, and that turns a cosmetic line into an attack surface. Commit metadata has always been trivial to fake unless signing is enforced. So over a couple of evenings I built the missing half: a producer-attribution layer where attribution is backed by a hardware key, enforced automatically, and verifiable .

About Trace

A macOS menu-bar app that turns any conversation into a clean markdown transcript, with an optional on-device summary. Runs a local speech model entirely on your Mac, in dozens of languages. The moment is pinned to your transcript at the exact timestamp. Trace provides you with clear markdown transcripts and summaries that you can use anywhere. Either copy the markdown from Trace directly or have it place the file anywhere in your filesystem. Trace can also send files directly to Obsidian, Bear, Drafts or Things with a button press.