nberkman
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Comment · 3 months ago
The one that matters.
Comment · 3 months ago
Sounds similar to the tool I built: https://github.com/neilberkman/ccrider#ccrider (although it's OSS whereas yours appears to be commercial)
Comment · 4 months ago
Somewhat related, I built ccrider [1], which indexes the session transcripts that agents already write to disk (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot) into a local SQLite FTS database. It has a TUI, CLI, and an MCP server so the agent can search past sessions itself. Same local-first idea, based the raw logs rather than a maintained digest. Should work nicely with recall as well.
Comment · 7 months ago
> Aren't tools like claude already store context by project in file system?
They do, the missing piece is a tool to access them. See comment about my tool that addresses this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668270
Comment · 7 months ago
Cool project. I like the neuroscience analogy with decay and consolidation.
I've been working on a related problem from the other direction: Claude Code and Codex already persist full session transcripts, but there's no good way to search across them. So I built ccrider (https://github.com/neilberkman/ccrider). It indexes existing sessions into SQLite FTS5 and exposes an MCP server so agents can query their own conversation history without a separate memory layer. Basically treating it as a retrieval problem rather than a storage problem.
Comment · 9 months ago
I get the concerns, but there's a flip side nobody's talking about: what about experienced developers who had years of ideas bottled up and never had the bandwidth?
I used to think open source was something I'd focus on when I retired. Instead I'm doing it now. I built Clippy (https://github.com/neilberkman/clippy) from scratch, a much better bcopy, that fixes a real gap in pbcopy, and it hit 200 stars and Homebrew core in seven months. Neither of these would exist without AI assisted development. My DocuSign Elixir SDK sat basically unchanged from 2021 to 2025, other than a few external contributions. I knew it needed a full migration of the OpenAI code gen layer, LiveBook examples and a million other tweaks. With coding agents I implemented everything useful I could imagine.
Am I the only one? There must be other devs out there resurrecting stale projects or shipping tools they never had time for.
Comment · 10 months ago
That makes resuming easier, if you remember to rename in your current session. But that doesn’t solve being able to search history from earlier in your current session or from your entire history of sessions. Or resuming sessions for which you’ve forgotten the name.
Comment · 10 months ago
Ugh, thanks for flagging! Fixed.