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Re: Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app

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Post by risyachka »

renesultan wrote: post #3

Had meetings with a ton of MCP-server providers, no one came close to Airweave’s retrieval accuracy. I even tried Zapier and similar large companies, didn’t come near airweave. Highly highly recommend if you need third party integrations to your AI agents or workflows. Love the team too, cracked, cool, kind, and always there to support their customers (they even took one of their customers dog on a walk when they cou…

Noob here - why would mcp providers have a good accuracy?

Don’t they just adjust existing apis to mcp protocol basically just wrapping them?

Re: Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app

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Post by mike_d »

raufakdemir wrote: post #20
nishanthooda wrote: post #18

Nice - does it have role based access controls built in?

I assume you're talking about the data layer (not the control plane)? We are currently in PoC phase for mapping the role graphs from source systems (Asana, Google Drive) to our internal role model, but this is still in the works. The way developers work around this atm is by configuring a connection on a subset of the source info. Example: only make Airweave sync info from the `Shared Drive/Marketing/Branding` path

How do you handle data retention? For example say that you suck in the information of a California resident and the company is obligated by law to delete it on request. How do you ensure no derivative data exists within your model?

Re: Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app

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Post by throwaway314155 »

Are integrations hooked into via their MCP implementation? Or are you hooking in more traditionally and then exposing MCP on top of that?

Also, are these one-time/event-based syncs well supported by the integration providers? I know for instance that discord (and i assume others like slack) frown upon that sort of wholesale archival/syncing of entire chat rooms, presumably due to security concerns and to maintain their data moats.

Finally (i think), do you have to write custom "diff" logic for each integration in order to maintain up-to-date retrieval for each one? I assume it would be challenging to keep this accurate and well structured across so many different integration providers. Is there something i'm missing that makes keeping a local backup of your data easier for each service?

All in all, looks very cool. Have starred the repo to mess around with tonight.

Re: Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app

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Post by raufakdemir »

throwaway314155 wrote: post #29

Are integrations hooked into via their MCP implementation? Or are you hooking in more traditionally and then exposing MCP on top of that? Also, are these one-time/event-based syncs well supported by the integration providers? I know for instance that discord (and i assume others like slack) frown upon that sort of wholesale archival/syncing of entire chat rooms, presumably due to security concerns and to maintain the…

Good questions.

1) the integrations are done traditionally so with REST/SQL. The MCP/REST search layer rests on the data that gets synced.

2) most providers are painless. Slack doesn’t want major exports in one go but most developers point at a single channel anyway so the rate limit errors don’t bite too much.

3) this is all orchestrated by the platform itself. Incremental syncs will receive the latest “watermark state” and sync from there. Hashes are used to compare data for persist actions (update/insert/keep)

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