gitwink — a read-only tray git glance for the AI-agent era

I used to live in VS Code with GitLens pinned — the branch graph, heat-mapped blame, the lens annotations. That was my git workflow.

Then 2026 happened. With Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex doing the actual editing, the editor itself became optional. The only thing dragging me back was GitLens.

That felt wasteful — booting an entire IDE just to peek at commit history. The agent runs the git commands now; I only need to sanity-check the result, occasionally, when something looks off.

So I built gitwink — the smallest possible tool for that loop. A tray icon that expands into a glance, hands the commit off as AI context, and gets out of the way.

Read-only by design. It cannot commit, push, merge, or modify anything. If I need git surgery, I tell the agent.