Less Software
Simpler systems, teams, and AI products.
Simpler systems, teams, and AI products.
Personal engineering metrics, collected passively via git hooks. engsight installs lightweight hooks across your repos that record commit metadata, branch switches, AI tool usage, and process context into a local SQLite database. No cloud services, no workflow changes --- just a record of how you actually work, built up in the background.
$ engsight summary --weekly
12 commits across 4 repos · 7 sessions · median 38m focus
lead time 2.1h · 19% of commits made with an AI tool running
$ engsight patterns
Shipping cadence, iteration speed, recovery time, commit granularity...
$ engsight log --type commit --since 2026-06-01
It's the IC side of the coin to engleader.tools. engleader gives managers DORA metrics from the GitHub API; engsight gives you the same kind of insight from your own machine, derived from the git events you generate as you work --- shipping cadence, iteration speed, recovery time, commit granularity, and how often AI is in the loop.
Hooks fire on commit, checkout, merge, push, rebase, and rewrite, each writing a structured payload. From those raw events engsight reconstructs work sessions, DORA-shaped IC metrics, and side-by-side diffs between two time periods.
AI involvement gets scored across three weighted tiers: commit co-authorship
(strong), whether an AI tool was actually running at commit time (medium), and
the presence of files like CLAUDE.md or .cursor/ (weak). A repo that merely
contains a CLAUDE.md isn't the same signal as a commit made while Claude was
running, and the confidence score reflects that.
No accounts, no telemetry, no data leaving your machine.
# macOS / Linux
brew install georgemandis/tap/engsight
# Windows
scoop bucket add georgemandis https://github.com/georgemandis/scoop-bucket
scoop install engsight
After installing, run engsight setup to create ~/.engsight. Then point
init-all at a directory and engsight walks the tree, wiring hooks into every
git repo it finds:
$ engsight init-all ~/Projects
Finding git repos under ~/Projects...
--- engsight --- Installed 7 hooks. Done!
--- spectacle --- Installed 7 hooks. Done!
--- less.software --- Installed 7 hooks. Done!
... 23 repos
Initialized 23 repos. 0 failed.
One command instruments every repo, and any repo you create later is picked up automatically --- no per-repo setup.