Ledger for Claude Code Projects?
Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a project to help non-technical folks maintain their AI-generated codebases and am looking for some feedback or references on some CS principles, and hoping this might be a good place to find some.
After building some consumer apps myself that took off with Claude Code, I have a lot of trouble maintaining multiple apps as one person. I wish I could pay someone to help, but my apps aren’t making enough money where I could hire someone. I’ve been leaning on a peer group with some SWE’s that have been helping me once a month for now, which fortunately has been helping me close some of the larger gaps, but isn’t really enough support for what I need right now.
I initially built a linter, but I found quickly that just scanning for bad patterns/security/legal issues etc. isn’t that helpful if you already aren’t a SWE in the first place, it either just balloons your issues into a larger problem later — and it doesn’t help you actually learn and produce better patterns, it just leads to more token burn for stuff you didn’t catch in the first place.
For my latest iteration, I’ve created a ledger between sessions where you can “train” your instance so it can start to pick up patterns you tend to generate, with the intent that it trains you on the best patterns while you’re building, so you can learn for yourself.
Im using SQL and scoped tries to store information that skills and deterministic analyzers flag across all of your AI-generated projects and across tools. It uses a watcher and is integrated with git hooks, so you can capture context throughout the entire dev pipeline and prioritize the most common ones. Conceptually, it’s basically a baton passer that’s inspired by Steve Yegge’s Gas Town and GSD for Claude Code—the insight being better state gets you a more optimized workflow.
I am an engineer but not someone with a formal CS background, so what I’ve built is mostly based on my own research and curiosity—but I’d like to know if there are better solutions for something like this architecturally. I’m sure there will be agentic tools coming that get you 95% there, so, I’m not sure what the life of this particular project will be— however, me being an engineer, I prefer to at least understand the underlying concepts either way so for my next projects I can build better systems.
Thanks in advance
Posted Jan 27, 2026, 1:56 PM UTC