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Re:LCM: Lossless Context Management [pdf] on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:57PM (#47043536)
Very cool! Excited to incorporate this into https://toolkami.com which is built upon RLM. Thanks for the great work!
Re:The Potential of RLMs on Monday February 09, 2026 @08:28PM (#46954152)
Am excited about RLM too! That's why I built https://toolkami.com so that people can try it easily for agentic workflows.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) on Sunday February 08, 2026 @09:30PM (#46940928)
Working on https://toolkami.com that enables plug and play Recursive Language Model for increased context size and better recall.
Re:Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI on Friday February 06, 2026 @08:46PM (#46920503)
Sandboxing is going to be of growing interests as more agents go “code mode”.

Will explore this for https://toolkami.com/, which allows plug and play advanced “code mode” for AI agents.

Re:Founding Is a Snowball on Sunday February 01, 2026 @07:24PM (#46850901)
If I were to add, "winter" is the best time to find snow, and there is enough snow for everyone.
Re:Agent Trace: Capturing the Context Graph of Code on Thursday January 29, 2026 @09:20PM (#46819831)
Not surprised OpenAI is not there, I struggled so much with telemetry in Codex that I had to build my own one Codex Plus (https://github.com/aperoc/codex-plus) -_-

Seems like it can be a standard the project can adopt.

Re:Unrolling the Codex Agent Loop on Friday January 23, 2026 @08:22PM (#46740173)
These can also be observed through OTEL telemetries.

I use headless codex exec a lot, but struggles with its built-in telemetry support, which is insufficient for debugging and optimization.

Thus I made codex-plus (https://github.com/aperoc/codex-plus) for myself which provides a CLI entry point that mirrors the codex exec interface but is implemented on top of the TypeScript SDK (@openai/codex-sdk).

It exports the full session log to a remote OpenTelemetry collector after each run which can then be debugged and optimized through codex-plus-log-viewer.

Re:Ask HN: How are you sandboxing your coding agents? on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @11:27PM (#46701116)
Using https://github.com/aperoc/toolkami which just spins up a worktree with pre-configured Docker containers.
Re:A Brief History of Ralph on Monday January 19, 2026 @10:00PM (#46687410)
Sad that a lot of these are for Claude Code and not Codex which I uses more, so I started https://github.com/aperoc/codex-plus which has telemetry built-in, now moving to build a Ralph loop on top of it.

Show HN: Codex Plus – Turbocharged OpenAI Codex for Headless Workflows

https://github.com/aperoc/codex-plus

I use codex exec a lot, but it struggles with its built-in telemetry support, which is insufficient for debugging and optimization.codex-plus provides a CLI entry point that mirrors the codex exec interface but is implemented on top of the TypeScript SDK (@openai/codex-sdk).It exports the full session log to a remote OpenTelemetry collector after each run which can then be debugged and...

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Ask HN: Identity crisis as a software engineer because of AI

I had to note down my feeling and I wonder if this resonates.Plenty of engineers are struggling with their identity in this new age. Anxiety shows up even among the best of us, and anger isn’t far behind. - Andrej Karpathy (https://x.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521) - Rob Pike (https://itsfoss.com/news/rob-pike-furious/)I know both emotions. I pride myself as a software craftsman, yet I...

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Re:Cursor Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:15AM (#45758269)
hehe thanks! as a self taught AI engineer, might take awhile =D
UV script enabled me to distribute a MCP client or server in a single file[0].

[0]: https://blog.toolkami.com/mcp-server-in-a-file/

Re:Cursor Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @08:15PM (#45754831)
I think both Cursor and Cognition and going in the same direction of SWE-grep[0].

SWE-grep was able to hit ~700tokens/s and Cursor ~300token/s, hard to compare the precision/recall and cost effectiveness though, considering SWE-grep also adopted a "hack" of running it on Cerebras.

I'm trying to kickstart a RL-based code search project called "op-grep" here[1], still pretty early, but looking for collaborators!

[0]: https://cognition.ai/blog/swe-grep [1]: https://github.com/aperoc/op-grep

Re:Simplify Your Code: Functional Core, Imperative Shell on Monday October 27, 2025 @08:40PM (#45728095)
Not sure man, I specifically stated this in my README way before this post: https://github.com/aperoc/toolkami/blob/main/README.md#comma....

I mean it's not much, but the concept just resonates with me and I want to share it. Sad I can't share even simple opinion nowadays ...

Re:Simplify Your Code: Functional Core, Imperative Shell on Monday October 27, 2025 @07:29PM (#45727563)
One of the core design principles at https://github.com/aperoc/toolkami
Great to see progress being made here! I had tons of fun using AlphaEvolve to optimize Perlin Noise[0]

[0]: https://blog.toolkami.com/alphaevolve-toolkami-style/

Re:Ruby Blocks on Saturday October 18, 2025 @08:06AM (#45626679)
I recommend reading Shopify CEO Tobi's try[0] for good example of how Ruby's block behavior and meta-programming makes it easy to create a single file, shell wrapper.

[0]: https://github.com/tobi/try/blob/main/try.rb

Re:Andrej Karpathy – AGI is still a decade away on Saturday October 18, 2025 @07:54AM (#45626617)
And I'm looking for a problem to spend my next decade on ...
Re:Open SWE-grep: architecture review request on Saturday October 18, 2025 @07:51AM (#45626603)
Inspired by SWE-grep, I've started a repo to educate myself on it here https://github.com/aperoc/op-grep.

I've drafted an architecture, with the steps mainly as so: 1. Collect actions (grep/glob/read) policies either from usage logs or open datasets 2. Optimize by removing redundant actions or parallelization 3. Train model on optimized action policy 4. Release model as a single file, MCP tool (Refer to repo for visual diagram of the architecture)

I've just released the base model and added `openai_forwarder.py` to start collecting action policies.

Looking for more eyes and contributors to make this a reality, thanks!

Re:Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP on Friday October 17, 2025 @07:03PM (#45623170)
I like to think of subagents as “OS threads” with its own context and designed to hand off task to.

A good use case is Cognition/Windsurf swe-grep which has its own model to grep code fast.

I was inspired by it but too bad it’s closed for now, so I’m taking a stab with an open version https://github.com/aperoc/op-grep.

Kickstarting an exploratory open version here https://github.com/aperoc/op-grep since it doesn't look like they will do it.
Any plans to offer this as a tool/MCP server for other coding agents or is it going to be Windsurf exclusive?
Re:Claude Skills on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:44PM (#45612002)
That is why a minimal framework[1] that allows me to understand the core immutable loop, but to quickly experiment with all these imperative concepts is invaluable.

I was able to try Beads[1] quickly with my framework and decided I like it enough to keep it. If I don't like it, just drop it, they're composable.

[0]: https://github.com/aperoc/toolkami.git [1]: https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Sunday October 12, 2025 @08:15PM (#45563368)
Release a CLI for my open source project: https://github.com/aperoc/toolkami

It is a modified version of Shopify's CEO Tobi try implementation[0]. It extends his implementation with sandboxing capabilities and designed with functional core, imperative shell in mind.

I had success using it to manage multiple coding agents at once.

[0]: https://github.com/tobi/try

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