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Re:Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills wi... by tomhow on Thursday July 16, 2026 @02:06PM (#48938032)
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Re:Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills wi... by missmoss on Thursday July 16, 2026 @01:13PM (#48937299)
This is neat! It tackles a boring but real problem with agents. When you have too many tools, the model gets confused. This is a good search box for its tools instead of dumping everything into the prompt. Benchmarks is amazing!
Re:Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills wi... by jack1689 on Thursday July 16, 2026 @01:27PM (#48937512)
Thank you! Let us know how it works if you try it out :) of course real world is another story, but we agree benchmarks are amazing indeed!
Re:Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills wi... by flaviobernoni on Thursday July 16, 2026 @01:36PM (#48937646)
really cool, first time I've seen anyone treat "which tools does my agent even get to see" as its own problem. Is the roadmap more about pushing deeper on the retrieval side over time, or mostly about covering more frameworks/languages?
Re:Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills wi... by jack1689 on Thursday July 16, 2026 @01:40PM (#48937699)
Thank you! Right now we're adding some frameworks adapters to lower the adoption friction, and pushing deeper on new algorithms on the retrieval side. More languages support is not on the radar yet, but we accept contributions! :)
Re:Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills wi... by KristianLentino on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:20PM (#48936603)
Benchmarks looks very promising! I’ll try to test this new tool in the next few days thanks for sharing!
Re:Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills wi... by rstagi on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:31PM (#48936748)
Thank you mate! Please share your feedback :)
Re:Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills wi... by atenareply on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:45PM (#48936937)
This looks so nice!
Re:Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills wi... by atenareply on Thursday July 16, 2026 @01:01PM (#48937128)
I see you built the core in Rust with bindings to TS/Python. y?
Re:Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills wi... by jack1689 on Thursday July 16, 2026 @01:05PM (#48937190)
Yes! I should have mentioned in the original post. It was actually built in Typescript at first, but then the performance were not good enough for production use cases. With Rust the footprint was way lower, and we managed tear the latency down from 200ms to 20ms for a single search
Re:Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills wi... by iustinai on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:19PM (#48936592)
man this could save me so much money lol
Re:Show HN: Ratel, give agents unlimited tools and skills wi... by jack1689 on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:38PM (#48936844)
Would love to hear your feedback if you can try it. We initially rolled out BM25 for tool search as it worked best for us internally. Recently rolled out also embeddings and an hybrid option that is being tested in production as we speak