Porch
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Porch launches to turn Claude Code and Codex sessions into project summaries. It also tracks blockers, tokens, and costs, while keeping session data on your Mac.
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Porch is a new open-source tool for people working in Claude Code and Codex. It takes those coding sessions and turns them into daily, weekly, and monthly summaries organized by project. The pitch is simple: less digging through scattered work, more seeing what actually happened.
It does more than write a recap. Porch estimates task time, flags blockers, and shows sessions across terminals and editors so you can tell which ones need attention. It also tracks tokens and API-equivalent costs, which is the kind of detail people usually only go looking for after the bill arrives.
There’s another angle here too. Porch can save summaries as Markdown into Obsidian or any folder, so the output is meant to live somewhere useful instead of being trapped inside yet another app. And because it’s open source, there’s no Porch account required.
The privacy part is a big part of the product story. Session status and usage stay on the Mac, while the summaries rely on the user’s installed, signed-in Claude Code or Codex. That keeps Porch closer to a local worklog than a cloud dashboard, which may be exactly the point.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the right kind of boring utility: useful, local, and not begging for a signup. The AI world has a talent for turning simple bookkeeping into a subscription, so open-source tools that keep the data on the machine deserve a little applause. The real surprise is how rare that still is.
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