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Re: Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

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This seems like a really interesting idea and something I've basically been doing myself manually so far, with a DESIGN.md document with "one concept/decision per line, built in a tree" basically, where all decisions that needs to be remembered gets noted down for future reference. Not a fan of ThoughtDAG being a complete separate application rather than built into the tools I use every day, like my text editor or ot…

Thank you for taking the time to inspect this so carefully. You were right, and I treated it as an urgent security issue.

The fix removes shell execution from PDF rendering, strictly validates dpi, restricts browser origins, and forces the bundled desktop server to listen only on 127.0.0.1, regardless of the user’s environment. All macOS, Windows, and Linux packages have been rebuilt.

I could not find --no-sandbox in the source or build configuration. If you observed it in the AppImage process arguments or runtime behavior, I would really appreciate the reproduction details. You are also right that Linux publisher signing still needs work.

I also agree with your broader product criticism. The standalone app was the quickest way to test the interaction model end to end, but your DESIGN.md workflow points toward a more useful direction: ThoughtDAG as a context layer and viewer that existing editors and coding tools can read from and write to. If you are still willing to try the patched release, I would genuinely value both a security re-check and your thoughts on what the smallest useful editor integration should look like. Thank you again for catching this before more people installed it.

Re: Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

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post #8

The basic idea here looks interesting and is easy to understand but what I'm not understanding is why it's a standalone app. Is this supposed to replace e.g. Claude desktop? Or can it plug in to other systems like Claude Code, Codex, Pi? I don't think I'd want to use it as a standalone app but I would certainly be interested in it as a plugin.

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Re: Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

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Can this integrate with replit?

Not directly today. ThoughtDAG currently runs as a standalone local app.

If you mean letting a Replit agent read selected graph context and write its results back as nodes, that would require an API or plugin boundary that I have not built yet. Would an embedded panel be useful, or would a simple read/write API be enough?

Re: Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

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See also this post (“Every Fucking Website, Slop edition”): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302737

Had the exact same thought. It’s like reading a foreign language – and I’m going to be honest – not load bearing at all.

Re: Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

#28

See also this post (“Every Fucking Website, Slop edition”): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302737

Analogy: Textual version of Material Design from Google.

Standardization in important information rich environment is good. Standardization for art is not good. We should not mix these two distinct scenarios. Or maybe I am old.

Re: Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

#29

This seems like a really interesting idea and something I've basically been doing myself manually so far, with a DESIGN.md document with "one concept/decision per line, built in a tree" basically, where all decisions that needs to be remembered gets noted down for future reference. Not a fan of ThoughtDAG being a complete separate application rather than built into the tools I use every day, like my text editor or ot…

Irrespective of opinions about a project or its authors, disclosing a potential security issue in a public forum is markedly not responsible disclosure.

Re: Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

#30
I looked at the repo and demo canvas. Nice work. Especially liked the 3 semantic zoom tiers and the weave/condense features. If you're enabling for less-technical users consider leading with weave and condense vs. edge deletion. Edge deletion is where the model is powerful but my Mom would get stuck there for instance. The idea that removing a wire changes what the model actually sees might not be obvious.

Consider when someone clicks a node, show a sidebar listing (node references)with remove buttons to reframe as 'what does this answer know about me" vs. "edit of the graph".

Love the graph for power users but listing can be the explanation layer.

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