Local-first · Open-core · Runs on your machine
The IDE for a world where agents write the code.
Developers keep notes beside the code, where they drift out of sync and die. As software gets written through LLMs, that lost intent gets expensive. CodeDistill captures intent, ties every change back to it, and keeps the two verified and traceable — instead of drifting apart.
# drop a thought on the canvas...
"users stay logged in after password reset — session not invalidated"
→ classified BUG · project: auth-service
→ criteria reset must revoke all active sessions
→ verify go test ./internal/session (at recorded commit)
→ status traceable to the change that fixed itNotes rot away from the code.
Scratch files, a doc folder, a running list of "things to fix." They live beside the code instead of in it — so they drift out of sync and lose their relevance over time.
The intent behind a change — why it was made, what it was meant to satisfy — is exactly what a model (and the next human) needs, and exactly what evaporates first. CodeDistill keeps it attached.
Intent in, verified change out.
You supply intent. An agent supplies code. CodeDistill distills the two together — and keeps the receipts.
Capture intent
Paste anything — a stack trace, an idea, a half-finished thought — onto a scratchpad canvas. A local model sorts it into todos, bugs, knowledge, and use cases, each anchored to the project it belongs to.
Set the bar
Attach acceptance criteria and the commands that prove a change works — your tests, lint, types, scanners. Intent stops being a vague note and becomes something checkable.
Agent implements
An agent does the work and records what it did against the intent that asked for it — so the 'why' lives with the code instead of evaporating into a side file.
Verified & traceable
Every change is checked against your criteria and test suite and tied back to the request. You see what was done, why, and whether it actually holds.
A scratchpad that sorts itself
Drop messy input on a canvas; a local LLM classifies it into structured, project-anchored work. No forms, no filing.
Runs entirely on your machine
Classification uses your own Ollama instance; storage is a single SQLite file. No cloud, no code leaving the building.
Acceptance criteria + verification
Define what 'done' means, then let it run your tests against the real commit. Green means done — not 'looks right.'
Code-aware, not just notes
Point a project at your repo. It reads git, runs checks at recorded commits, and keeps intent mapped to the code it changed.
Keep intent with the code.
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