Grepathy records coding decisions Claude made without approval
On a contract project, Claude created users in Clerk ahead of time as “guests,” leaving their email and name fields empty even though this was never in the plan. When the CTO asked why, the developer could not answer because Claude had made the choice without their knowledge. The reasoning existed only in a local Claude Code , which is deleted after 30 days by default; two projects had already lost their entire histories this way.
Grepathy turns local into Markdown files that keep only decisions, not the developer’s messages, and saves them alongside the code without using a server. Running `grep -rn "agent-initiated" .ai/why/` lists decisions the AI initiated without approval. In a blind , agents using Grepathy correctly answered questions about why decisions were made, while the baseline agents produced confident but invented answers.
REPORT.md also includes the cases the tool missed.
Key points
- Claude created unplanned guest accounts with empty email and name fields.
- Claude Code are deleted after 30 days by default.
- Two projects had already lost their full conversation histories.
- Grepathy stores only decisions in local Markdown files and uses no server.
- A search command can list decisions the AI initiated without human approval.