Ctlsurf – A notebook that forces AI coding agents to document their shortcuts

I've been using Claude Code for months and kept hitting the same issue: tasks would get "completed" but I'd have no visibility into what assumptions the agent made or what it quietly simplified when it got stuck.

  ctlsurf is a notebook that connects to AI agents via MCP. The key feature: when an agent marks a task done, it must provide structured completion data:                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                                       
  - Summary of what was done                                                                                                                                                                           
  - Assumptions made (required, at least one)                                                                                                                                                          
  - What was attempted but failed                                                                                                                                                                      
  - What was simplified or skipped                                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                                       
  That last one is the important part. Agents often silently give up on parts of tasks, and this forces transparency.                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
  https://app.ctlsurf.com                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                                       
  Interested in feedback, especially from teams using AI agents in production where accountability matters.