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- yo this is crap. stop emailing people from the AUR using your stupid email handle to advertise your ai slop. the "we" you often mention is most likely you and that clanker producing this slop.by mewsen
- I've been running https://github.com/kenn-io/agentsview for this, works well.
- The number of LLMs (and possibly very odd humans) replying to this thread is unusual.by meowface
- Really nice idea - there is certainly gold in the history of agent actions. But how do you keep the ctx from trusting stale history?
- It's all in the skill / instruction that you give to the agent. The agent should treat the history as anthropology - a record of what happened, not necessarily the ground truth.
Creating ground truth is an orthogonal problem - I try to work hard to put it into specs and docs and regularly update those.
Searching history is closer to "super git blame" or like looking through logs. We should expect a lot of stuff went wrong in there.
by luca-ctx - Very interesting project! I guess it could be even better if you didn't have to ingest the session data into a database but just build an index on top. I have an idea how to do itby malandin
- Thanks and this is a very interesting idea!
We considered this, but the main thing you gain from this tradeoff is some disk space and cleaner retention semantics from not having to duplicate all of the searchable text.
But you still have to do the parsing and ingestion work to build the index in the first place, so CPU time does not go away.
And you still have to store the indexes and enough metadata to map results back to the raw session files, which bounds the benefit of not duplicating the data.
The main downside is flexibility (you would lose the ability to do arbitrary SQL queries, semantic search on top of structured corpus, etc)
But I would love to see if I can be proven wrong on this!
by luca-ctx - Building this made it obvious that there should be a standard format / specification for agent transcripts and logs (similar to ACP for runtime events). If you're interested in discussing this, please reach out!by luca-ctx
- I like the CLI interface, very comprehensive.
However, I'm puzzled by pi support: https://github.com/ctxrs/ctx/issues/40
by alex_hirner - > Coding agents usually start from zero. They can inspect the current repo, but they often cannot recover the discussions, decisions, failed attempts, commands, and test results from earlier work.
Sure they can. Just ask them. Some (like Claude Code) even have built in tools for it that work a treat. It'll happily rebuild an entire edit history diff by diff.
by Terretta - This is true, maybe we could reword it to be less absolute.
The bigger point is that when they do go spelunking in the old session logs, it is extremely token inefficient, and you can often fill up an entire context window and force a compaction just by trying to put together a transcript or summary.
The goal here is less of doing something previously impossible, but doing it in a way that makes it so efficient and cheap that you can have agents do it very often, like before they start on every single task.
by luca-ctx - I would love a service that I could upload these chats to (anonymously) so that those developing open models can have it as training data and not just the closed model companies. My understanding is that it’s very valuable, look what cursor have managed to train. Obviously some filtering so that only chats or projects you want to share get shared would need to be in order.by AM1010101
- The Chinese would love this.by adamsmark
- I love this idea. I would totally upload my sessions if doing so helped train the next generation of open weight models. I'm using Claude to work on my free software projects so there aren't many secrets there anyway.
- We have a private beta for a secure cloud version of the service, although its more geared towards teams/enterprise who want to share their work internally, rather than donating to open model developers. But interesting idea! I'm not very knowledgeable about crypto things, but I believe this is what people have considered "microtransactions" to be useful for.by luca-ctx
- This is rapidly becoming the "todo list demo" of the LLM era... I say this as someone who also built one because I was tired of all the others! (https://github.com/beaugunderson/obliscence)
- Lol fair enough! Great project btw. Interesting choice to trigger incremental refresh on SessionStart hook, that's nice.
How have you enjoyed the semantic search?
by luca-ctx - First, OP's tool is cool, and worth trying. Yours as well, though when I see a vibed tool with no commits I wonder if the author is still using it themselves or achieved perfection. :-)
Meanwhile, the other todo list take, one I've undertaken as well, is to cross sync all the Claude Codes across all its instances on all your machines.
There are multiple projects that claim to do this. None do it fully. (They particularly have blind spots to tools that embed a Claude Code, such as the Xcode 26.5 and Xcode 27 beta.)
So: roll one's own, and in doing that, realize that it has first class tools to make back referencing transcripts normal.
Given those tools, you don't really need an extra layer.
by Terretta - I often tell Claude Code to look at previous sessions in ~/.claude and it’s happy to jq/grep its way through them with no special tool. But being more efficient is always good.by wrs
- Claude has been heavily RL'd on using jq/grep, even if the tool is more efficient, Claude using it incorrectly or reading a book of examples in order to understand how to use it correctly is going to end up underperforming.by CuriouslyC
- Yes this is how we started as well!
At first I thought the main improvement would be that the search would be faster, but rg is already pretty freakin fast when the fs cache is warm.
What really ended up being the big efficiency improvement is the token efficiency. When you structure all of the transcripts in a SQL table, the agent can retrieve exactly what is needed (such as "print me the lite transcript, without the intermediate messages").
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