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Comment #48316575
Dependabot is focused on upgrading dependencies, and nothing else. One of your dep is outdated, here is an update. Mendral is smarter when updating deps, it looks at newer version,…
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Comment #47999392
In this post, we built the harness, it’s not 3rd party (like Claude code in a sandbox). So we trust it as much as the rest of our backend code.
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Comment #47991840
No, for example a tool call calling an API. So the llm does not have access to the API keys, the tool does. For example an API call that fetches some data remotely and return it to…
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Comment #47991144
We don't host 3rd party agents (I don't know if this what you implied). We built an agent that monitors CI pipelines, tests failures, performance and auto opens PR to address issue…
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Comment #47991098
Yes, it's also because the agent described in the post is doing some operations on the user code (fix CI pipelines, rerun tests, fix them, etc...). So another big reason to use the…
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Comment #47970809
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Comment #47944032
We considered wrapping Claude Code when we started building Mendral (this agent in the article). We ended up building our own agent, it's lot more work because we followed all the …
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Comment #47943997
Nice, it's on our todo list to use oss models too. What are you building?
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Comment #47943930
Curious, what steps did you follow to end up with this design (what did you try before)? And what's your use case for this agent?
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Comment #47943897
IMO RAG is mostly dead. The game changer with newer models like Opus is the reasoning. So instead of pushing all the context up front (RAG style), it's better to give strong primit…
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Comment #47943869
We're dealing with CI logs, produced by a variety of frameworks, languages, etc... And the tough ones to look into are e2e tests, with outputs from infrastructure. I wish a re.matc…
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Comment #47943843
It's the same as an escalation. Something we omitted from the post is that we often use Sonnet to write SQL queries. We wrote another post that was on HN some time ago that goes in…
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Comment #47943831
I am one of Mendral co-founder (my co-founder wrote the article), I am the one to blame for changing the title when posting. I thought our original one was too clickbait and I want…
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