Ted Haley releases Pensieve, a local search tool for coding agents

The free Mac app indexes code, documents and agent sessions. Its product-page benchmark reports 43% fewer tool calls on file-finding tasks than grep, Glob and Read, though the test is small and company-run.

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As coding agents consume more repository context, search quality becomes a cost and workflow issue. Pensieve offers a local alternative and publishes a benchmark developers can reproduce, though its current results remain product-run and narrow.

Pensieve says its local code index cuts agent tool calls by 43% — Ted Haley's free Mac tool searches code, documents and agent sessions; its benchmark shows modest gains on file-finding tasks against grep, Glob and Read.

On October 12th, Ted Haley published the Pensieve product page, offering a free, open-source Mac tool that builds a local index across code, documents and coding-agent sessions. It serves relevant passages to agents through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Haley built it around a practical problem in AI-assisted coding: agents can spend time and tokens searching through a repository before they find the file that matters.…

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