Your coding assistant tells you every test passed. The build is green, so you merge the PR and get back to your backlog.

Three weeks later, an issue rolls in. The agent isn't around to help. Maybe your API quota is gone, or you're stuck on a commuter train with zero bars. The code belongs to you now, and something is broken.

Can you actually fix it?

That's the real problem driving this project, and it comes down to practical ownership. On paper, your name is on the commit. In practice, you only own that code if you can trace its logic and patch it completely unaided. Green tests only prove that software works on a good day. They don't prove you understand it. (To be clear, this is strictly about maintenance. Licenses and copyright are not the issue here.)

I built CodeOwnership to test that exact blind spot.…