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Re:Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multi... by woeirua on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @01:14PM (#48025460)
Your point about search being a bottleneck is spot on. IMO, search APIs should return guidance to agents to help them winnow down the results faster. For example, if your query returns 1000 results, then it should tell the agent, "too many results, we recommend you filter on column X because of Y to improve your search. Here are the possible values in column X: ..."
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Re:Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multi... by carefulfungi on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @04:19PM (#48027944)
There are a lot of APIs like this that I really wish would expose downloading a parquet file instead of trying to implement server-side filtering and reporting query features.
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Re:Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multi... by aaronsteers on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @08:38PM (#48030696)
+1

Working with APIs is often frustrating and the worst ones are terribly ineficient and frustrating. Our Agent SDK and Agent Context Store insulates you and your agent from this headache, allowing you to query from those synced datasets directly.

The feedback about wanting to download a parquet file is super interesting...

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Re:Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multi... by aaronsteers on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @08:41PM (#48030726)
Glad to hear this resonates with you also. We're aiming to give agents more control over their context, and easier access paths regardless of the source system.
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