Drift – Intent-driven versioning for AI coding agents
Drift is a semantic version-control layer that wraps Git. Every commit becomes an Intent: the prompt that produced the change, the agent model behind it, the AST-level mutations, an optional checkpoint of the agent's cognitive state, and a cryptographic Ed25519 signature — all linked into an auditable, replayable graph. When more than 80% of code is generated, text diffs are useless for review: they show what changed, never why.
- ▪Drift is a semantic version-control layer that wraps Git.
- ▪Every commit becomes an Intent: the prompt that produced the change, the agent model behind it, the AST-level mutations, an optional checkpoint of the agent's cognitive state, and a cryptographic Ed25519 signature — all linked into an audit
- ▪When more than 80% of code is generated, text diffs are useless for review: they show what changed, never why.
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Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/lilcipherx/drift |
| Publication time | Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:32:41 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-12T19:36:31.819Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-12T19:36:31.819Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | UjFANT7Y8keD · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Drift Git tracks what changed. Drift tracks why. Drift is a semantic version-control layer that wraps Git. Every commit becomes an Intent: the prompt that produced the change, the agent model behind it, the AST-level mutations, an optional checkpoint of the agent's cognitive state, and a cryptographic Ed25519 signature — all linked into an auditable, replayable graph. Built for the AI era. When more than 80% of code is generated, text diffs are useless for review: they show what changed, never why. Drift rejects broken syntax before it enters history, answers "why does this function exist?" with the originating prompt, and lets a crashed agent resume from its last checkpoint.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.