An open commons for code agent traces
The data behind coding agents should belong to everyone.
Every coding-agent session is a record of how these tools really work — and today that data goes to a few companies. Donate yours instead, anonymized on your machine, to an open dataset anyone can study and build on.
$npx skills add trace-commons-ai/donate-trace
Then run /donate-trace after an open-source session. It anonymizes locally, shows what it removed, and sends only when you confirm.
◆ Public, openly-licensed repos only — never private, proprietary, or client code.
01 Why donate
An open commons breaks the cycle.
Coding agents improve on data their makers can see. A shared, openly-licensed dataset opens that up to everyone — researchers, builders, and the open-source community.
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Level the field
A diff shows where you landed; a trace shows how you got there. That reasoning is what's locked inside a few companies today.
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A commons, not a moat
One openly-licensed dataset on Hugging Face anyone can download, study, and build on. It belongs to the community that fills it.
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Cleaned before it leaves
Paths, usernames, and secrets are stripped on your own machine — and you review what's left before anything sends.
02 Install
One command. Every agent.
One installer for every agent. No Hugging Face account needed.
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Add the skill
Auto-detects and installs into each agent you use — Claude Code, Codex, pi, opencode, and 50+ more.
$npx skills add trace-commons-ai/donate-trace
target one agent:
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Run it after a session
After a session on open-source work, run /donate-trace (pi: /skill:donate-trace). It confirms the repo is public first.
›/donate-trace
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Review, then send
See exactly what was removed, then confirm. It opens as a pull request a maintainer reviews before anything goes public — anonymous, or attributed if you're logged in.
↳ Prefer hands-off? Paste a setup prompt and your agent installs the skill, then walks you through your first donation. Install the Trace Commons donation skill by running: npx skills add trace-commons-ai/donate-trace. Then, only if my current project is an open-source public repository, help me anonymize and donate my most recent session.
03 Explore the commons
Browse the commons.
Every donation is one public row. Open the full dataset on Hugging Face to read, search, and download what's been contributed.
Cumulative traces donated
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The commons only exists if we build it.
Open infrastructure is built, not given — one session at a time. Donate a trace and keep the data behind coding agents open.