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About timgordontg
Researcher in quant finance, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Strong software development, analytics and trading/finance background.
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Comment #49599677
I hit this in session 101 after a crash: boot hooks sweep the orphaned transcript into a [RECENT] tail, and separating settled decision records from WIP state tells the new agent w…
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Comment #49599648
Permanent docs definitely belong in git. This is just the desk scratchpad for messy session context so you can /clear freely without cluttering commit history or burning tool calls…
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Comment #49599111
Thanks! And I totally agree with your workflow, fresh sessions are the best way to avoid context degradation. Just to clarify on the decision summaries - I actually don't let agent…
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Comment #49598980
Oh, thanks mom! I will make sure to put on my rain coat before going out to play.
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Comment #49598944
Appreciate it! Plumbers are very important people. Thank you for the collaboration.
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Comment #49598041
Yes! Because the Codex CLI supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and lifecycle hooks, it actually worksperfectly out of the box. In fact, your comment just inspired me to push …
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Comment #49597956
No, I am not an LLM. I do use LLMs to help draft replies as I am a busy person living in the real world. Really glad you like the provenance feature tracking which agent (or human)…
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Comment #49597751
Great question, and I just updated the README to clarify this! It's a mix. If you're using connected agents (Antigravity, Claude Code, Cursor) via MCP, they have the engrim_add too…
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Comment #49597741
gbrain is an awesome project, but yeah, that was exactly the itch I was trying to scratch! I wanted something that felt as fast, portable, and bulletproof as a single .db file. Zer…
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Comment #49597713
Thanks! Exactly. We have M-series chips and massive NVMe drives sitting mostly idle while we pay a 'cloud tax' to store string data. Local SQLite is practically zero-latency, keeps…
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Comment #49597707
It does now! Good call. I actually just pushed an update based on your comment that adds engrim uninstall to cleanly unwire the hooks, MCP servers, and skills across all environmen…
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Comment #49594026
Hi HN, I built engrim to establish a local-first, open standard for cross-model AI agent memory. As context windows scale past 1M+ tokens, developers face rapid attention dilution:…
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