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Backpass turns agent transcripts into evidence-gated memory edits

Backpass is an early local-first CLI that reads coding-agent transcripts from seven harnesses, then proposes bounded edits to AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and project skills. Its analysis does not write to the repo; accepted changes pass through a separate human-reviewed apply step. Why it matters: Agent instruction files tend to accumulate rules from whichever failure someone remembers. Backpass turns session history into an inspectable maintenance loop with verbatim evidence, repeated-session thresholds, token budgets, and reversible diffs.

Try this: Run `backpass scan --since 7d --strict` in one repo, then inspect the proposed diff, evidence quotes, and token-budget change. Reject any memory edit that does not represent a recurring pattern you recognize.

GitHub 1.1k stars · Sep 27verify ↗
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Kun Chen — backpass GitHub repository
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