Developer builds custom AI-powered harness and knowledge base tools
By
aryamaan
Half-baked but well-meaning. A passing snack.
Summary
A developer shares their experience building custom AI-powered tools, including a Dagger-backed harness for file and environment management (with diff, time travel, and forking capabilities), and a markdown search/wiki system powered by Typesense for personal knowledge management. They recommend OpenCode as a good existing tool and link to their GitHub project.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledA custom harness backed by dagger, gives diff, time travel, forking of both files and env.
Building a harness is a good learning project.
OpenCode is quite good out of the box.
This will power my personal knowledge base system as an important step towards more leverage and better outcomes.
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