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Show your work.

Showtail keeps a clear record of how you built a project with AI — the prompts you sent and the files you changed — captured automatically to a plain .showtail/ folder. No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry.

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Why Showtail

  • Automatic capture

    Your prompts and the files your AI tool edits are recorded as you work. The trail builds itself — nothing to remember.

  • Local & private

    Everything lives in a .showtail/ folder in your project. No cloud service, no external API calls, no telemetry. Ever.

  • Works across your tools

    Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Google Gemini all feed into one coherent, cross-tool timeline.

  • Team-aware

    On a group project each student gets their own folder under one shared .showtail/, so trails merge through git without conflicts.

  • Plain, reviewable files

    JSON and Markdown you can open in any editor and commit with the rest of your work. showtail report renders a readable summary.

  • Built for classrooms

    A structured way to demonstrate genuine understanding. Not an AI detector, not surveillance, not a grading tool.

Integrations at a glance

Claude Code ✅ · OpenAI Codex ✅ · GitHub Copilot 🚧 · ChatGPT / Gemini ✅ (import)

See the full capability matrix →

Get going in three commands

showtail setup     # one-time: connect your AI tools and turn on automatic tracking
# ...just work — your prompts and edits are captured automatically...
showtail report    # generate the report for your educator

Once a tool is connected, Showtail sets up the project for you on first use — there is no separate "init" step to remember.

Read the full quickstart →