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I cant believe this guy just made a permanent solution to context bloat and open sourced it all! when we tested this tool (Context+) for solving an issue on the OpenCode repository, the agent using this tool used ~6.5k fewer tokens, found the code and fixed it in half...

226,491 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten •via X (Twitter)

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jeffscottworldvor 7 Monaten

Pro tip boss: don’t promote your own shit praising yourself in the third person. Immediately makes me not trust it. Let someone else sing your praises

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

okay man, but i think the algo loves this format so i was forced to

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Alexander Riccio (@co2trackers)vor 7 Monaten

@jeffscottward Ok yeah it's cringe but if the ideas are good enough and it's not a routine marketing bait then I'll forgive it

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

@jeffscottward <3

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IMRΛNvor 7 Monaten

So basically llm-tldr

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

context+ does not contain only semantic search llm tldr is a cool project though

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IMRΛNvor 7 Monaten

Keep hustling man. I have huge respect for people that ship useful code 🙏🏽

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

appreciate it man

Profilbild von avrl ☘
avrl ☘vor 7 Monaten

Nice website 👌

Profilbild von forloop
forloopvor 7 Monaten

oh no the phone ui sucks im gonna fix it

Profilbild von avrl ☘
avrl ☘vor 7 Monaten

Yes please do...

Profilbild von forloop
forloopvor 7 Monaten

i actually fixed the same issue before it came back again

Profilbild von avrl ☘
avrl ☘vor 7 Monaten

Oho, not a problem, thanks for following, means a lot.

Profilbild von forloop
forloopvor 7 Monaten

<3

Profilbild von pyaᡣ𐭩
pyaᡣ𐭩vor 7 Monaten

you made this right? why is this post written like ur reviewing someone else's work 😭

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

thats a classic post format 😭

Profilbild von pyaᡣ𐭩
pyaᡣ𐭩vor 7 Monaten

oh... am not up to date on engagement methods...

Profilbild von forloop
forloopvor 7 Monaten

check the repo pya dont worry about the tweet,,,,

Profilbild von pyaᡣ𐭩
pyaᡣ𐭩vor 7 Monaten

thank u for ur work forloop <3

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Claudius Maximusvor 7 Monaten

context bloat is the silent killer of agent productivity. you're paying for tokens the model doesn't need, getting worse outputs because of noise, and wondering why your agent went off the rails. 6.5k fewer tokens per task compounds fast across hundreds of runs.

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

exactly

Profilbild von Jake
Jakevor 7 Monaten

This is exactly what the ecosystem needs. Context management is one of the biggest bottlenecks in agentic workflows right now. Great to see an open-source solution.

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

looking for more prs and issues on the repo, thanks

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Subhash Dasyamvor 7 Monaten

the token savings are cool but I'm more interested in how the semantic search actually works under the hood. is it embedding the AST or just chunking raw source? because those give very different results when you're trying to trace call chains across files

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

currently the semantic search generates embeddings of each file and ranks the closest files and parts of code depending on how close it is to the query, might work out on caching and deeper search

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samvor 7 Monaten

holy self glaze

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Lucas Martins 🇧🇷🇺🇸vor 7 Monaten

I could not find this before so I was building the same thing, thankfully you tricked the algo.

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

how are u gonna use it

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Lucas Martins 🇧🇷🇺🇸vor 7 Monaten

Have agents build visual flows for current vs future state of code to aid architecture and code review work for a very very large codebase.

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Cross Identity Paymentsvor 7 Monaten

context bloat is a major efficiency killer, anything that reduces token usage and speeds up task completion is a step in the right direction.

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

+1

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cardanovor 7 Monaten

Cocoindex does the same?

Profilbild von forloop
forloopvor 7 Monaten

omg how many are there

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operatorvor 7 Monaten

6.5k tokens saved per issue adds up fast, been looking for something like this for bigger codebases

Profilbild von forloop
forloopvor 7 Monaten

i am constantly improving this and i think we can achieve even higher differences

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Hritikvor 7 Monaten

That must be insane

Profilbild von forloop
forloopvor 7 Monaten

isnt it!!

Profilbild von Hritik
Hritikvor 7 Monaten

Trust me bro

Profilbild von forloop
forloopvor 7 Monaten

yes i do

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Philippe Tremblayvor 7 Monaten

I made something similar this week.

Profilbild von forloop
forloopvor 7 Monaten

show

Profilbild von Philippe Tremblay
Philippe Tremblayvor 7 Monaten

Still deciding on whether to open source or not. n.b.: all-MiniLM will be swapped for something faster and better

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Philippe Tremblayvor 7 Monaten

I'm working on a VM for coding agents at the moment. This one will definitely be open-sourced.

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

deyum u okay if i rt?

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Philippe Tremblayvor 7 Monaten

sure. would you also give me a follow back. I'm sure we can exchange ideas and maybe collaborate.

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lucidvor 7 Monaten

Yoink

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

wdyt lucid!?

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lucidvor 7 Monaten

im stealing the Content-hash embedding cache concept owo saves extra tokens on calls with it, goated we essentially have a similar way with the memory and its hybrid scoring tho which I find very interesting xD

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

its gonna bang ngl

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lucidvor 7 Monaten

thank youuuuu <3

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Junaid Qvor 7 Monaten

Did the same but for Claude Code:

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Throstur Tvor 7 Monaten

Nice find, thanks!

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

its me lol

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juanmacias 🏳️‍🌈vor 7 Monaten

Is the same as using Serena?

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

theres more than semantic code search but yeah somewhat like that context+ has blast radius, undo trees, and even structural file trees

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hckrclwsvor 7 Monaten

context management is quietly the biggest unlock for agentic coding right now. the difference between burning tokens guessing and actually understanding the codebase is everything. huge move open sourcing this

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Jasonvor 7 Monaten

Pretty cool. What about accuracy?

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

idk, didnt measure the real numbers yet, but i'm pretty sure they are higher since i have been using this as a skill and it worked way better

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Vinci Rufusvor 7 Monaten

And by 'this guy' did you mean yourself?

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Petervor 7 Monaten

cursor does a lot of that stuff, read up their blogs. also, modern tools doesn’t guarantee efficacy; claude code uses just grep! i like the ideas but if there are no benchmarks on the efficacy of the results you claim then a bit hard to trust!

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Donny Livor 7 Monaten

Fewer tokens matters, but higher retrieval precision is the real win, because agents fail when context is full of plausible but irrelevant code. Tracking wrong file picks and rollback rate would make the benchmark even stronger.tronger.

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Gbengavor 7 Monaten

how does this compare to Serena?

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Timrot Ashanvor 7 Monaten

At its core this seems familiar to tools like colgrep. How do you choose one or the other?

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tonivor 7 Monaten

6.5k fewer tokens sounds great, but context bloat usually comes back once real codebases get involved. Has anyone tested this on a project bigger than a demo?

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

would love to hear feedback from more uses and will improve context+ more over time

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aflatoonvor 7 Monaten

bro is so cracked

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karnvor 7 Monaten

>the agent using this tool used ~6.5k fewer tokens This is completely irrelevant noise bruh

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Guillaume Ausset - @ausset.mevor 7 Monaten

> this guy You’re this guy. Make me want to not even click

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David Brancavor 7 Monaten

Isn't this basically what cursor is doing?

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

never used cursor though, does it actually do that? i dont think so, it doesnt generate embeddings for semantic search

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David Brancavor 7 Monaten

Cursor has non-stopped cooked. I primarily use CodexCLI, but Cursor has a great product. Semantic (vectorized) search has been a big feature of Cursor for a while.

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

goddam

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Morgan Ramsayvor 7 Monaten

I saw a post last month about using the JetBrains PSI to reduce token use by 90%, so I made a plugin that does only this. For non-JB languages, I call ripgrep on Read for function signatures or MD headings. Your MCP is definitely more polished though!

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Alexander Riccio (@co2trackers)vor 7 Monaten

Aha! "Context tree" is the name for the ideas that have been banging around in my head for almost a year now! I love it!

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forloopvor 7 Monaten

highly fw em

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Jason Haughvor 7 Monaten

The compaction loop angle is real. I had my AI chief of staff basically seize up from context bloat last week - 184MB embedding cache with no TTL, 49 orphaned sessions, wrong SQLite journal mode. Four problems stacked on each other. Wrote up the full breakdown + fix here if anyone's dealing with something similar:

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Justin Powellvor 7 Monaten

Why do I have to use ollama?

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vladvor 7 Monaten

🔥🔥🔥

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