Really awesome and thoughtful thing you've built - bravo!
I'm so aligned on your take on context engineering / context management. I found the default linear flow of conversation turns really frustrating and limiting. In fact, I still do. Sometimes you know upfront that the next thing you're to do will flood/poison the nicely crafted context you've built up... other times you realise after the fact. In both cases, you didn't have that many alternatives but to press on... Trees are the answer for sure.
I actually spent most of Dec building something with the same philosphy for my own use (aka me as the agent) when doing research and ideation with LLMs. Frustrated by most of the same limitations - want to build context to a good place then preserve/reuse it over and over, fire off side quests etc, bring back only the good stuff. Be able to traverse the tree forwards and back to understand how I got to a place...
Anyway, you've definitely built the more valuable incarnation of this - great work. I'm glad I peeled back the surface of the moltbot hysteria to learn about Pi.
> want to build context to a good place then preserve/reuse it over and over, fire off side quests etc, bring back only the good stuff
My attempt - a minimalist graph format that is a simple markdown file with inline citations. I load MIND_MAP.md at the start of work, and update it at the end. It reduces context waste to resume or spawn subagents. Memory across sessions.
This is incredible. It
never occurred to me to even think of marrying memory gather and update slash commands as a mindmap that follows the appropriate node and edge. It makes so much sense.
I was using table structure with column 1 as a key, and col 2 as the data, and told the agents to match key before looking at Col 2. It worked, but sometimes it failed spectacularly.
I’m going to try this out. Thanks for sharing your .md!
Very very cool. Going to try this out on some of my codebases. Do you have the gist that helps the agent populate the mindmap for an existing codebase? Your pastebin mentions it, but I dont see it linked anywhere.
Re the patent of voice control, does it really sound defendable? That sounds a bit too obvious to be patentable at the level of “observe speaker’s speech and adjust text accordingly”, I’d have thought. Maybe they’ve patented a particular technical approach but now there must be dozens of voice to text models that you could leverage in a slightly different way. I’d love to try the result of something like that.
Seems to get a bit funky if I scroll on the screen while it’s playing. It changes the speed permanently until I reset. The speed slider also seems to invert after that??
I love the premise and I felt that a lot in SF. The transport system is not really a complex enough network that I need to be shown routing options. Just wanted to know when to leave the house and not stand at the stop for 20 minutes :’(
(In a highly networked place like London, seeing all options is helpful)
Do you do extra spam filtering? I see the advantage of not always giving out my email (I use Apple relay sometimes) but ultimately, a thing that routes to my email is another avenue for spam (until I kill that route).
I don’t really know. I don’t write posts to optimize for SEO (include FAQ at the end or something like that) and hope it’s just good content people will share.
There are also SEO pages which do not have any useful content. I think I should have more of them because my competitors have only SEO pages but I don’t have time for it as I have to focus on the product and customer support. Probably a good mix between useful content blog posts (maybe with SEO filling) and strictly SEO pages is best to bring traffic.
Does WP actually provide (1) any more? I built my first personal (photog) website on WP about 10 years ago and it was ideal. I went to do a simple website this year and WP is web builder framework inception - it’s web builders all the way down. You install a theme and it brings its own rat nest. So yes, I think it’s cooked but was before this spat. Webflow is simple. I assume there’s an OSS alternative by now(?)
I feel exactly the same way. WordPress used to be my go-to as well, and it was fantastic for simple sites about 10 years ago. But now? It feels like you’re stuck inside a never-ending loop of web builders stacked on top of each other. You install a theme, and suddenly you’re dealing with its own set of custom builders, page templates, and sometimes a whole new interface. What was once a straightforward blogging platform has become a full-on web-building labyrinth.
I agree—WordPress feels over-engineered for something that should be simple. I’ve recently been experimenting with static site generators and Webflow as well. Webflow is intuitive, fast, and gets the job done without all the bloat. As for open-source alternatives, I’ve seen some buzz around platforms like Ghost or Hugo for those wanting something lightweight, but they don’t quite match the "everything in one" ecosystem WordPress used to offer.
Are you mostly software stack focused or designing lots of hardware too?