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7/16/2026
The original title is: "Alpheon: A CLI tool to persist AI coding reasoning as git-committed handoff notes"
Original: I Kept Losing the "Why" Behind My Code Every Time I Closed an AI Chat, So I Built a Tiny Tool to Save It
Short summary
A developer built Alpheon, a lightweight CLI tool that reads git diffs and drafts markdown handoff notes capturing what changed, why, what was tried and rejected, and open questions. The tool addresses a real gap in AI-assisted coding where decision reasoning lives in ephemeral chat sessions and vanishes when sessions end. Notes are committed to a HANDOFF.md file in the repo, making reasoning portable across editors and agents.
- •Alpheon CLI generates handoff notes from git diffs preserving AI coding reasoning
- •Notes capture what changed, why, rejected approaches, and open questions
- •Works with any editor or agent; no server or database required
Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.
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