Evidenca

Made by Harshit Bharti

Anyone can generate an app in minutes now. So the question stopped being "what did you build" and became "did you actually build it?"

Evidenca answers that. It's a VS Code extension that records your coding sessions — the hours, the saves, the commits, the 2am bug fixes — and turns them into a short film. Your app, building itself on screen. Your commit messages as title cards. A final stamp: HUMAN-MADE.

When someone asks if your project is real, you don't explain. You play the film.

How it works

1. Start a session — open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and run Evidenca: Start session. A clock appears in the status bar. That's it; go code.
2. Code normally — Evidenca logs active editing time, every save, and your git commits into .evidenca/<project>/timeline.json. Run the screenshot companion alongside it and it captures your screen every few minutes:

   python watcher/watch.py --dir <your-project>/.evidenca/<project-name>
   

3. Stop and render — run Evidenca: Stop session, then Evidenca: Render film. Out comes evidenca-film.mp4: a cinematic timelapse of your work, graded with film grain and a vignette, ending on the stamp.

What counts as "active"

Time between your edits, as long as the gaps are under two minutes. Typing in bursts, pausing, reading docs, fixing the thing you just broke — that's the human rhythm, and the film keeps it. Staring at the screen for an hour doesn't count, and that's the point.

Privacy

Evidenca never touches the network. There are no network calls in the extension — no telemetry, no analytics, no accounts. Your timeline and screenshots live in .evidenca/ inside your own project folder. Delete that folder and everything is gone. Your code never leaves your machine.

Install

From the VS Code Marketplace: search "Evidenca" in the Extensions panel and hit Install. (Publishing in progress.)

From source:

git clone https://github.com/harshit-exe-dev/evidenca
cd evidenca/extension
npm install && npm run compile
npx vsce package   # produces evidenca-0.1.0.vsix

Then in VS Code: Extensions → ··· → Install from VSIX.

The renderer needs ffmpeg on your PATH and a common TTF font (DejaVu ships with most systems). The screenshot companion needs Python and pip install mss.

What's inside

extension/   the VS Code extension (TypeScript)
watcher/     screenshot companion (Python, mss)
renderer/    the film renderer (Node + ffmpeg)
SKILL.md     the Evidenca skill doc

License

MIT — do what you want with it. If your film gets you the internship, tell me about it.