simple-ai-provenance

Track every AI prompt you send in Claude Code, annotate git commits with what was asked, and query the full history of any session.

What it does

• Auto-captures every prompt you send in Claude Code via a hook — no manual steps
• Annotates commits with the prompts that produced the code, via global git hooks
• Answers "what did I do in this session?" through MCP tools callable inside Claude
• Stays compact — commit messages switch from verbose (all prompts) to condensed (summary) above a configurable threshold

Install

pip install simple-ai-provenance
provenance-setup

Then restart Claude Code and Claude Desktop.

That's it. Every prompt from that point forward is recorded automatically.

How it works

You type a prompt
    ↓
UserPromptSubmit hook fires → written to ~/.claude/provenance/provenance.db
    ↓
Claude works...
    ↓
git commit -m "fix: ..."
    ↓
prepare-commit-msg hook appends AI provenance block
    ↓
post-commit hook marks those prompts as committed

Commit message (≤ 5 prompts — verbose)

fix: auth bug

# ── AI Provenance ──────────────────────────────────────────
#
# Session 1  (2026-02-26 14:30, id: a1b2c3d4, 3 prompts)
#   • fix the auth bug in login.py
#   • add error handling for the edge cases
#   • write unit tests for the new endpoints
#
# Files: src/auth/login.py, tests/test_auth.py
#
# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Commit message (> 5 prompts — condensed)

refactor: connection pooling

# ── AI Provenance ──────────────────────────────────────────
#
# 12 prompts · 2 sessions over 1h 23m
#
# Session 1  (09:00, id: a1b2c3d4, 5 prompts)
# Session 2  (10:30, id: e5f6g7h8, 7 prompts)
#
# First: refactor the database connection pooling module
# Last:  add retry logic with exponential backoff
#
# Full history: call get_session_summary in Claude
# Files: src/db/pool.py, src/db/retry.py (+3 more)
#
# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

The # lines are git comment lines — visible in your editor but not stored in the final commit message.

MCP Tools

Once installed, these tools are available inside any Claude session:

Tool	What it does
get_session_summary	Prompts + files touched + tools used for a session
get_uncommitted_work	All prompts since last commit, grouped by session
generate_commit_context	Formatted provenance block for a commit message
mark_committed	Mark pending prompts as committed (auto-called by git hook)
list_sessions	Recent sessions with prompt counts
configure	Get or set config (e.g. verbose_threshold)

Configuration

Config lives at ~/.claude/simple-ai-provenance-config.json:

{
  "settings": {
    "verbose_threshold": 5
  }
}

Change it via the MCP tool inside Claude:

configure verbose_threshold=10

Or directly edit the JSON file.

Requirements

• Python 3.9+
• Claude Code (Claude CLI)
• Claude Desktop (optional — for MCP tools in the desktop app)
• Git

How sessions are scoped

Each Claude Code session is automatically scoped to the git repository detected from the working directory. Prompts from different projects never mix.

Session in ~/projects/api  → recorded under repo /Users/you/projects/api
Session in ~/projects/web  → recorded under repo /Users/you/projects/web

Uninstall

# Remove git hooks
git config --global --unset core.hooksPath

# Remove the UserPromptSubmit block from ~/.claude/settings.json

# Remove the simple-ai-provenance entry from Claude Desktop config

# Remove data (optional)
rm -rf ~/.claude/provenance/
rm ~/.claude/simple-ai-provenance-config.json

pip uninstall simple-ai-provenance

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later