Traces
Hacker ApprovedRanked 3 of 5 session sharing tools by recommenders
Recommended for sharing AI agent traces with teammates, giving context alongside pull requests, and passing along prompting insights. No recurring criticisms.
Recommended for sharing AI agent traces with teammates, giving context alongside pull requests, and passing along prompting insights. No recurring criticisms.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Shares agent traces with teammates
“found it very handy to share a trace with my team to give more context along side a pull request”
Comment from 6 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Traces: A new way to share and discover agent traces” “I've been really enjoying sharing traces to share prompting insights with the rest of our team.”
Comment from 6 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Traces: A new way to share and discover agent traces” Attaches traces to pull requests
“found it very handy to share a trace with my team to give more context along side a pull request”
Comment from 6 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Traces: A new way to share and discover agent traces” “I like this idea of attaching a trace to a PR.”
Comment from 6 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Traces: A new way to share and discover agent traces”
Other session sharing tools people recommend
The four most recommended other session sharing tools, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude-replay | 13 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
| Claudebin | 12 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
| TracesThis page | 11 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | Approved |
| Entire Checkpoints | 6 | 11 | 35% | 2 | — | — |
| Supafork | 6 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
10 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“a really (really!) simple tracing library for Ruby to wrap your code in different tracing blocks”
“have a skill that can look at your schematic and find typos and bugs that a normal rule check simply can't check”
“This query would be very difficult without it”
“Amazing use case and much needed!”
“Once you adopt the primitive you can't go back”
“In multi-agent systems traces become part of the working state of the system itself.”
“found it very handy to share a trace with my team to give more context along side a pull request”
“I've been really enjoying sharing traces to share prompting insights with the rest of our team.”
“I like this idea of attaching a trace to a PR.”
“I think you can use https://traces.com for that”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.