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by tcballard 14d ago
Tried this out and worked so well I bought a usb stick (because who owns those these days) and installed on my wife’s machine…
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MCP 2026-07-28 support in 14hrs while retaining legacy compatability(asdecided.com)
1 points by tcballard 2mo ago|0 comments
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by tcballard 2mo ago
Bloomberg shipped an official MCP server a few days ago... https://www.bloomberg.com/company/stories/closing-the-agenti...
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by tcballard 3mo ago
that’s just autocomplete when you type using a phone? Regardless of the semantics on language though, thoughts on the actual product?
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by tcballard 3mo ago
Yeah, naming clash clearly an issue but fundamentally different products. Epic just have the recognition over someone building OSS for the first time
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by tcballard 3mo ago
No worries, clearly better documentation would help!
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by tcballard 3mo ago
you mean I started a newer account? This is my first time posting on HR for things… so I’m new here, play nice!
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by tcballard 3mo ago
hilarious, I literally did this today as part of the satellite repo “rac-ci” which has these in
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by tcballard 3mo ago
So it seems to work quite well, as it’s been dogfooding itself for the past month… but only time will tell!
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by tcballard 3mo ago
I’ll do better
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by tcballard 3mo ago
thanks! the mcp is a wrapper around the cli! You can run “rac explorer” if you have installed the extra: pip install 'rac-core[explorer]' in terms of UX, working on a couple of improvements there but wanted to validate the idea fi
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by tcballard 3mo ago
I don’t follow - but appreciate the feedback, I’ll improve my comms about Lore / rac-core
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by tcballard 3mo ago
So rac doesn’t merge ADRs or infer that soft-deletes survive… supercession is managed by the status on one ADR saying Superseeded, and the other saying Supersedes. This is enforced by the CI pipelines you can use (GitHub, etc) I think your
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by tcballard 3mo ago
So the line shifts, but I see it as SDD manages the change (spec → tasks → ship, then archive it); Lore holds the durable decisions that every change after it has to respect. think of it as a layer above SDD and not a competitor, so basical
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by tcballard 3mo ago
Regardless - the emdash predated LLMs … but that’s going way off topic!
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by tcballard 3mo ago
I wrote this, I just spend enough time with LLMs to sound like one
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by tcballard 3mo ago
I think the proxy angle is genuinely appealing for the reasons you give: team-level, no per-dev install, reshape every agent's context from one place. We went down that exact fork and chose against it (wrote up the reasoning as an ADR
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by tcballard 3mo ago
Different beast — Epic's is version control, this grounds your agent in your team's decisions. Installs as rac either way, so the name's not load-bearing. But yeah, timing's a coincidence... just thought the name was coo
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by tcballard 3mo ago
I agree, that method might work if you are working solo or in a small team - but for organisations the ability to centrally manage and gate this sort of ruleset avoids drift.
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by tcballard 3mo ago
Good questions! Lore isn't really competing with CLAUDE.md, it sits under it. A CLAUDE.md (or AGENTS.md, etc) is typically hand-written, untyped, and never checked. Nothing stops it from still telling the agent to do something you reve
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by tcballard 3mo ago
Author here! Coding agents kept reworking decisions we'd already settled - reviving an approach we ruled out in an ADR, redoing something a requirement already pinned. The context was in the repo; the agent had no current view of it. L
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Lore – Give your coding agent the decisions your team made(github.com)
47 points by tcballard 3mo ago|54 comments
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by tcballard 3mo ago
I like to think so!
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by tcballard 3mo ago
Interestingly, a tuned length-threshold baseline performs very competitively and even beats Wayfinder on one of the benchmark sets. My intuition is that structural signals become more useful as prompt formats get more heterogeneous (code re
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by tcballard 3mo ago
Most routing systems I found either used another model as a classifier or relied on provider-specific routing. I was interested in the narrower question: how far can deterministic heuristics get before you actually need another model in the
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I built an LLM router that doesn't use an LLM(github.com)
4 points by tcballard 3mo ago|2 comments
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Wayfinder – routing LLM prompts without another LLM(github.com)
2 points by tcballard 3mo ago|0 comments