Show HN: Orchid – Local-first record and replay for AI agent debugging

Category: devtools

Tags: ai-agent-debugging, llm-observability, record-replay

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Orchid is a local-first, zero-instrumentation proxy for recording, inspecting, and replaying AI agent network traffic, including LLM calls and tool invocations. It uniquely combines a transparent proxy with a built-in MCP server, enabling coding agents to debug AI applications by querying recorded traffic directly from IDEs like Cursor or VS Code, with deterministic replay for testing.

Target audience: backend devs, ai engineers, devops

Repository: https://github.com/mario-guerra/orchid-trace · Python · Apache-2.0 · 1 stars

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