Sell Traces Turns Agent History Into Revenue
Sell Traces is a consent-first marketplace and CLI that scans Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and OpenCode histories, redacts sensitive data locally, and licenses approved traces to AI labs for evaluations, reinforcement learning, and code benchmarks. Contributors retain 70% of each closed sale, while companion SellCodebase targets repository licensing. [Sell Traces](https://selltraces.com/)
Sell Traces has a sharp thesis: expert agent work is valuable training data, and its creators should capture the upside. The difficult part is proving that automated redaction, ownership checks, and licensing terms are safe enough for professionals to share real work.
- –Local redaction improves the privacy posture, but proprietary business logic and employer or client obligations are not reliably removable by automated scrubbing.
- –The 70% share is contingent on an approved sale; estimates are not guaranteed payouts.
- –SellCodebase’s terms grant broad rights covering training, fine-tuning, benchmarking, and commercial exploitation, so contributors need careful legal review before submitting repositories. [SellCodebase terms](https://sellcodebase.com/legal/terms)
- –Similar services such as Traice Market emphasize seller-controlled pricing, encrypted delivery, and customer-owned storage, raising the competitive bar for trust and provenance. [Traice Market](https://traice.market/)
- –The safest early use case is sanitized personal-project history, not employer, client, or third-party code.
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2026-10-21
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2026-10-21
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michael_chomsky