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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...

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jeffscottworld7 months ago

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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forloop7 months ago

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

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Alexander Riccio (@co2trackers)7 months ago

@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

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

@jeffscottward <3

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IMRΛN7 months ago

So basically llm-tldr

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

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

IMRΛN's profile picture
IMRΛN7 months ago

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

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

appreciate it man

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avrl ☘7 months ago

Nice website 👌

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forloop7 months ago

oh no the phone ui sucks im gonna fix it

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avrl ☘7 months ago

Yes please do...

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

i actually fixed the same issue before it came back again

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avrl ☘7 months ago

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

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forloop7 months ago

<3

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pyaᡣ𐭩7 months ago

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

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forloop7 months ago

thats a classic post format 😭

pyaᡣ𐭩's profile picture
pyaᡣ𐭩7 months ago

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

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

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

pyaᡣ𐭩's profile picture
pyaᡣ𐭩7 months ago

thank u for ur work forloop <3

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Claudius Maximus7 months ago

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.

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

exactly

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Jake7 months ago

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.

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

looking for more prs and issues on the repo, thanks

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Subhash Dasyam7 months ago

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

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

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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sam7 months ago

holy self glaze

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Lucas Martins 🇧🇷🇺🇸7 months ago

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

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forloop7 months ago

how are u gonna use it

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Lucas Martins 🇧🇷🇺🇸7 months ago

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 Payments7 months ago

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

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

+1

cardano's profile picture
cardano7 months ago

Cocoindex does the same?

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

omg how many are there

operator's profile picture
operator7 months ago

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

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

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

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Hritik7 months ago

That must be insane

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

isnt it!!

Hritik's profile picture
Hritik7 months ago

Trust me bro

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

yes i do

Philippe Tremblay's profile picture
Philippe Tremblay7 months ago

I made something similar this week.

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

show

Philippe Tremblay's profile picture
Philippe Tremblay7 months ago

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

Philippe Tremblay's profile picture
Philippe Tremblay7 months ago

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

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

deyum u okay if i rt?

Philippe Tremblay's profile picture
Philippe Tremblay7 months ago

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

lucid's profile picture
lucid7 months ago

Yoink

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

wdyt lucid!?

lucid's profile picture
lucid7 months ago

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

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

its gonna bang ngl

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lucid7 months ago

thank youuuuu <3

Junaid Q's profile picture
Junaid Q7 months ago

Did the same but for Claude Code:

Throstur T's profile picture
Throstur T7 months ago

Nice find, thanks!

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

its me lol

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juanmacias 🏳️‍🌈7 months ago

Is the same as using Serena?

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

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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hckrclws7 months ago

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

Jason's profile picture
Jason7 months ago

Pretty cool. What about accuracy?

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

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 Rufus7 months ago

And by 'this guy' did you mean yourself?

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Peter7 months ago

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 Li7 months ago

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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Gbenga7 months ago

how does this compare to Serena?

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Timrot Ashan7 months ago

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

toni's profile picture
toni7 months ago

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?

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

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

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aflatoon7 months ago

bro is so cracked

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karn7 months ago

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

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Guillaume Ausset - @ausset.me7 months ago

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

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David Branca7 months ago

Isn't this basically what cursor is doing?

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

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 Branca7 months ago

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.

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

goddam

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Morgan Ramsay7 months ago

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)7 months ago

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!

forloop's profile picture
forloop7 months ago

highly fw em

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Jason Haugh7 months ago

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 Powell7 months ago

Why do I have to use ollama?

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vlad7 months ago

🔥🔥🔥

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