a public ad auction inside your coding agent

your agent pays you.

Your agent is thinking. Your status line is earning. Short, labeled sponsor messages while you wait — you keep 50% of every ad dollar.

npx codebacks init
live · 1 ad in rotation · top bid $5.00 / block · you keep 50%
claude — ~/dev/app
> refactor the payment service to use the new client
⏺I'll update the payment service. Reading the files first.
⎿ Read client.ts (142 lines)
⎿ Updated payments/service.ts
✻adCodeBacks — your agent pays you(esc to interrupt · +$0.01)
>Try "fix the failing test"
claude code · cli — rides the statuslinesession earnings+$0.17
the deal

half of every ad dollar is yours.

Sponsors pay per qualified impression. The split is fixed at 50% — no tiers, no thresholds, no fine print. If the line earns, you earn.

sponsor bids from $5 per block of 1,000 plays
you+50%
codebacks50%
50 / 50 of whatever the bid is · settled per play · paid out from $5
how it works

three steps, zero new habits.

01

install

One command wires CodeBacks into your agent's status line. Works with codex, claude code, and VS Code.

npx codebacks init
02

wait

While the agent thinks, a short sponsored message rides the status line. Always labeled, never in your prompts or code.

adimpressions accrue while it shows
03

cash out

Every qualified impression settles to your balance. Pull it to your bank any time from $5.

claude code · 14 min waited · +$0.97

what's your wait worth?

agent wait time per day, at the $5-per-block bid floor — you keep half of every play's price, and higher bids pay more.

1.5h / day waiting22 working days
estimated
$30/mo
start earning
ad

Sponsoring? Reach developers mid-flow, in the one line they're actually watching. Write the line, fund a budget, pay only for impressions actually seen.

advertise on codebacks

the leaderboard

outbid $5.00 / block to take #1

serving is a public auction — bids are per block of 1,000 plays, highest bid plays first, and anyone can outbid the top slot. funded campaigns only: drafts join the queue the moment their blocks are paid for.

#sponsorbid / blockplays
1CodeBacks — Make money from your code agent$5.00242
full live queue →outbid them →
faq

the fine print, unfined.

does this interrupt my agent?

No. The message rides the status line you already watch, only while the agent is busy. Nothing is injected into prompts, context, or output — ever.

how much can i actually earn?

Ads play in 10-second slots and you keep 50% of each play's price. Sponsors bid per block of 1,000 plays (min $5) — at the floor that's $0.90 per hour of waiting at the rate cap, and the auction pushes real bids higher. The calculator above does the math for your habits.

what do sponsors see about me?

Aggregate impressions, nothing else. No code, no prompts, no filenames, no identity. Targeting matches campaign keywords against broad language and framework tags from your workspace manifests.

when do i get paid?

Whenever you like, from a $5 balance. Bank transfer via Stripe — arrives in 2–3 days.