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Re: Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved

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Can we get the transcript of the session where you had Claude write this post? I want to understand the "why" behind this project, and whether a human being was at any point involved in the "blind, pre-registered evaluation of Grepathy against an honest baseline".

lol yes, agents ran the mechanics. I set the bars before any run and audited the keys. And the "why" behind the project is literally in the repo's .ai/why/ where you grep it if you would like.

The repo's .ai/why/ does not contain the "why" behind the project. It provides a list of dozens of small decisions the agent presumably made as part of implementation; none of them explain what a "why-pack" is, or describe their underlying structure and principles, or detail the thought process behind the decision that "why-packs" are the best strategy to achieve the project's goals.

I would encourage you to treat AI outputs with substantially more skepticism than you're giving them.

Re: Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved

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Well done. This is not just Claude’s behaviour :) It could be used for every agentic coding as well, because I have experienced such mess so many times in last three years. One issue repaired, another one touched and changed…

thank you so much! started with a Claude Code adapter, but you think Codex would be a good next one?

OpenCode, Hermes, Codex

Imho OC and H users will appreciate it more than Codex users (although there are more of them).

Re: Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

thank you so much! started with a Claude Code adapter, but you think Codex would be a good next one?

OpenCode, Hermes, Codex Imho OC and H users will appreciate it more than Codex users (although there are more of them).

these are great suggestions! terrific recs - thanks. I think you're right to lean into OC and Hermes

Re: Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved

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Your .ai/why/main.md is at 97KB and 148 entries. Does anything prune that, or does a long-lived branch keep growing?

Nothing prunes it, atm. Currently I'm not sure if it's valuable that it does? 97KB is ~25k tokens. `grepathy context ` filters by the decision's Touches: list - a typical file pulls 3KB, not 97. But, I'm open to hearing a case on pruning!

For comparison the whole git log body on that branch is 3KB; the pack holds 33x the reasoning.

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