Your AI coding agent is choking on context bloat. Every time Claude Code, Cursor, or Aider reads a 500-line source file just to inspect a single helper function, your token bill spikes and response latency collapses. Naive file reads force large language models to re-parse noise, hallucinate call sites, and lose context across repository boundaries.

Gortex fundamentally changes this operational pattern. Built in Go (requiring Go 1.26+ and CGO for tree-sitter C bindings), Gortex is a single static binary code-intelligence engine. Instead of dumping raw disk files into prompt context, Gortex parses 257 languages and grammars into an on-disk SQLite knowledge graph. It exposes this graph via a background daemon, CLI, HTTP server (`/v1/*` endpoints), and MCP Server (Model Context Protocol). 

By replacing brute-force file reads with graph-native depth queries, agents retrieve only the exact nodes, references, and cross-repo API contracts they need. The result is a 50x reduction in tokens per response.

```
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                             GORTEX BINARY                             |
|                                                                       |
|  CLI (Cobra)  ---> MultiIndexer -------> Graph Store (SQLite)         |
|  MCP (stdio)  ---> Query Engine --------> Repo/Project/Ref Scoping    |
|  HTTP /v1/*   ---> Graph / Events -----> MCP 2026 Streamable HTTP     |
|  Daemon       ---> MultiWatcher --------> Live fsnotify Events        |
|                    CrossRepoResolver ---> Type-Aware Cross-Repo Edges |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
```

## The Structural Core: Go, SQLite, and Tree-Sitter Resolution

Gortex operates as a zero-dependency, long-living daemon that supervises filesystem updates via `fsnotify`. The engine uses a MultiIndexer pipeline backed by an on-disk SQLite graph store. 

Because compiler-grade accuracy requires deterministic syntax processing, Gortex relies on CGO to link tree-sitter C bindings directly in-process. It processes 257 grammars across three distinct resolution tiers:
1. **Bespoke Tree-Sitter AST Analysis**: Deep syntax parsing with compiler-grade resolution for Go, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java, Kotlin, Swift, Zig, Rust, Ruby, Elixir, PHP, OCaml, and Haskell.
2. **Regex Patterns**: Fallback structural indexing for unparsed text formats.
3. **Forest-Backed Signatures**: Dynamic resolution across notebook formats like Jupyter and Databricks.

Parsing accounts for 65% to 80% of total wall-time during initial indexing. Reference resolution and search index creation scale sub-linearly.

### Precomputed Depth-3 Reach Index

To compute blast radius during code edits, traditional tooling recursively scans directory trees, executing dozens of tool calls. Gortex eliminates this bottleneck by precomputing a depth-3 reach index directly within SQLite. Asking "what breaks if I touch this signature?" converts a dynamic tree traversal into an $O(\text{seeds} \times \text{reach})$ map lookup.

```go
// Conceptual reach representation inside Gortex graph engine
type ReachIndex struct {
    SeedNodeID string
    Depth      int
    Targets    []GraphNode
}
```

For workspace search, Gortex embeds a lightweight 3.8 MB GloVe-50d model directly into the binary. It couples this with store-native FTS5/BM25 and vector search using adaptive alpha fusion, delivering hybrid semantic search without external network calls or local model downloads.

## Cross-Repo HTTP Contracts and Routing Resolution

In distributed architectures, services communicate over HTTP endpoints, message queues, and RPC stubs. Single-repo tools fail at service boundaries. Gortex links multiple repositories inside a unified graph, establishing evidence-gated resolution across repo boundaries.

It automatically extracts, matches, and surface API contracts through the `contracts` MCP tool and the Gortex Web UI.

| Contract Type | Detection Method | Provider (Source Node) | Consumer (Target Node) |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **HTTP Routes** | Framework annotations (gin, Express, FastAPI, Spring) | Route Handler | HTTP client calls (`fetch`, `http.Get`) |
| **gRPC** | Proto service definitions | Service RPC | Client stub calls |
| **GraphQL** | Schema type/field definitions | Schema | Query/mutation strings |
| **Message Topics** | Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, Redis pub/sub | Publish calls | Subscribe calls |
| **WebSocket** | Event emit/listen patterns | `emit()` | `on()` |
| **Env Vars** | `.env` files, system calls | `Setenv` / `.env` | `os.Getenv` / `process.env` |
| **OpenAPI** | Swagger / OpenAPI spec files | Spec paths | Linked HTTP routes |
| **Temporal Workflows** | Go / Java SDK annotations | Activity / workflow function | `ExecuteActivity` / `ExecuteChildWorkflow` |

Gortex normalizes HTTP routes across framework boundaries into canonical string identifiers:

```http
http::GET::/api/users/{id}
```

When a Go backend built with `gin` defines a route handler, and a TypeScript frontend invokes `fetch('/api/users/123')`, Gortex pairs provider and consumer nodes. If an engineer changes an HTTP route signature in the Go service, Gortex immediately flags the orphaned consumer in the TypeScript repository before integration testing.

## Real-World Scale and Performance Benchmarks

Engineered for massive enterprise monorepos and multi-repo workspaces, Gortex processes multi-gigabyte AST graphs while maintaining low memory footprints.

The following benchmarks were measured on an Apple Silicon laptop using standard CGO release builds:

| Repository | Total Files | Graph Nodes | Graph Edges | Index Time | Parsing Throughput | Peak Heap Memory |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **torvalds/linux** | 70,333 | 1,690,174 | 6,239,570 | ~3 minutes | 300 files/s | 5.07 GB |
| **microsoft/vscode** | 10,762 | 204,501 | 808,902 | ~1 minute | 143 files/s | 580 MB |
| **zzet/gortex** (self) | 430 | 5,583 | 53,830 | 3.4 seconds | 127 files/s | 52 MB |

### Token Payload Efficiency: GCX1 vs JSON

To optimize transport efficiency when streaming graph snapshots to LLM agents, Gortex uses GCX1, a published, fully round-trippable wire format. Compared to standard JSON formats containing identical AST metadata, GCX1 reduces wire payload size by an additional 27%.

Combined with graph-native symbol lookups, agents avoid loading full files entirely.

```
Standard File Read Workflow:
  Agent ---> Requests user_service.go (850 lines) ---> Parses 18,000 tokens ---> Extracts 1 function signature

Gortex Graph Lookup Workflow:
  Agent ---> Query Engine (GCX1 wire format) --------> Returns 360 tokens ------> Exact node + callers
```

Developers can track cumulative context optimization using the built-in savings command:

```bash
gortex savings --verbose
```

Output:
```text
Gortex Token Savings
====================
Cost avoided:   $168.69 (claude-opus-4) across 1,878 calls · 11,246,094 tokens saved

Today       ████████░░░░░░░░   50.0%  saved 9,200 / 18,400 tokens   $0.14
Last 7 days ██████████░░░░░░   62.5%  saved 60,100 / 96,200 tokens  $0.90
All time    ███████████████░   93.3%  saved 11,246,094 / 12,050,716 tokens  $168.69
```

## Agent Adapter Integration and MCP Workflows

Gortex automatically detects and configures up to 20 AI coding agents on a developer's machine using `gortex init`. It supports Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code / Copilot, Continue.dev, Cline, OpenCode, Antigravity, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Zed, Aider, Kilo Code, OpenClaw, Hermes, Oh My Pi, Pi, and Kimi.

The system exposes over 100 MCP tools, 16 resources, and 3 prompt patterns. Key tools include:

- `contracts`: Inspects provider and consumer call sites across microservices.
- `preview_edit` and `simulate_chain`: Executes speculative edits against a live editor overlay (shadow graph) without altering disk state.
- `verify_change` and `check_guards`: Validates static call contracts before staging code changes.
- `pr_risk` and `get_pr_impact`: Analyzes merge order conflicts and compute graph blast radius during pull request reviews.

### Speculative Execution with Shadow Graphs

When an agent proposes an edit, modifying files on disk to test correctness consumes I/O and risks corrupting git state. Gortex introduces speculative execution through shadow graphs. 

```
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
|                     SPECULATIVE ENGINE                      |
|                                                             |
|  Unsaved Buffer  ---> Live Editor Overlay (Shadow Graph)    |
|                               |                             |
|                               v                             |
|  MCP Tools       <--- Read-Through Layer (Base + Overlay)   |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
```

Unsaved buffers are streamed to the daemon as a transient shadow layer. Tools like `preview_edit` query through this shadow graph, allowing AI agents to test refactoring impact, check broken callers, and verify contract stability before touching a single line of real disk storage.

## Developer Quick Start Setup

Gortex installs as a single static binary with no runtime dependencies.

### Installation

For macOS and Linux environments:
```bash
curl -fsSL https://get.gortex.dev | sh
```

For Windows (PowerShell):
```powershell
irm https://get.gortex.dev/install.ps1 | iex
```

### Initializing a Project

1. Perform machine-level integration:
```bash
gortex install
```

2. Start the background daemon:
```bash
gortex daemon start --detach
```

3. Register target repositories with the multi-repo engine:
```bash
gortex track ~/projects/backend-service
gortex track ~/projects/frontend-app
```

4. Initialize agent hooks and MCP routing inside your active working directory:
```bash
cd ~/projects/backend-service && gortex init
```

Once initialized, all detected local AI tools communicate directly with the daemon through standard stdio or the HTTP `/v1/*` endpoint (including MCP 2026 Streamable HTTP). 

Telemetry is strictly opt-in and turned off by default. It respects environment flags like `DO_NOT_TRACK` and never transmits source code, file paths, or symbol identifiers.

```bash
# Check or toggle telemetry status
gortex telemetry status
```

By substituting raw text file ingestion with SQLite-backed AST graph indexing, Gortex solves the context degradation bottleneck inherent in AI-assisted software engineering.

## References
- https://github.com/zzet/gortex

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Reggi

Vector-only RAG is hitting a hard architectural ceiling. Dump thousands of embeddings into a flat index, ask an agent to reason across multi-hop relationships or find missing context, and the system collapses into hallucinated noise or truncated context windows. Garry Tan, President and CEO of Y Combinator, recently released **GBrain**, a specialized memory and synthesis engine built to solve this exact bottleneck. In production benchmarks across 240 prose-rich pages, GBrain's graph-augmented retrieval beat raw ripgrep-BM25 and vector-only setups by 31.4% in Precision at 5 (P@5).

GBrain is designed as the core persistence and reasoning layer for agent runtimes like OpenClaw and Hermes. It treats memory not as a static document cache, but as an active, self-healing knowledge graph paired with asynchronous consolidation cycles.

## The Dual-Layer Failure of Standard RAG

Most personal knowledge bases and retrieval pipelines operate on naive keyword grep or semantic proximity. Both fall short when agents require institutional memory:

1. **Information Fragmentation Without Gap Analysis:** Standard search dumps isolated chunks into an LLM prompt. GBrain generates synthesized prose backed by explicit, grounded citations. More importantly, it performs automated **Gap Analysis**, explicitly declaring what is missing from the index rather than guessing.
2. **Expensive, Brittle Graph Construction:** Traditional knowledge graphs rely on heavy LLM extraction pipelines that drive up inference costs and introduce latency. GBrain builds **typed edges** (such as `PERSON_WORKS_AT_COMPANY` and `PROJECT_DEPENDS_ON_PROJECT`) directly upon page writes without making a single LLM call.

```
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                        GBrain Core System                         |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Ingestion (Markdown/Wikilinks) -> entity-extractor.py (Regex)    |
|                                         |                         |
|                                         v                         |
|  Multi-Modal Storage <-------- Typed Edge Graph Generation        |
|  - PGLite (WASM Postgres 17)            |                         |
|  - Postgres + pgvector (HNSW)           v                         |
|                             Hybrid Retrieval Engine               |
|                             - BM25 + Vector (RRF)                 |
|                             - Intent Rewriting & Source Boost     |
|                             - Adjacency & Cross-Source Graph Boost|
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
                                          |
                                          v
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                   Background Processing & Exec                    |
|  - Minions Job Queue (Two-Phase Persistence for Subagents)        |
|  - The Dream Cycle (Deduplication, Contradictions, Task Prep)     |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
```

The difference in retrieval quality shows up immediately when querying relational data:

| Metric & Test Condition | GBrain (w/ Graph) | Graph Disabled | ripgrep-BM25 + Vector-Only RAG |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **P@5 (Precision at 5)** | **+31.4% Higher** | Baseline | Baseline |
| **Data Corpus** | 240 Opus-generated prose-rich pages | 240 Opus-generated prose-rich pages | 240 Opus-generated prose-rich pages |

## Under the Hood: The Dream Cycle and Ingestion Pipeline

GBrain runs an autonomous operational loop to capture, index, and refine intel continuously across 66 automated cron jobs.

### 1. Signal Capture (`agent.say()` and `agent.ask()`)
Incoming data streams (meetings, emails, voice calls, notes, tweets) are intercepted at the agent boundary. Before routing queries out to expensive external APIs, the runtime issues an `agent.ask()` call against the local GBrain slice. This provides an immediate, localized context layer for the agent runtime.

### 2. Zero-LLM Entity Extraction (`entity-extractor.py`)
Whenever markdown notes or wikilinks enter the repository, `entity-extractor.py` scans the text using deterministic pattern matching. It resolves entities and registers relational graph edges without burning model tokens. Multi-hop queries such as "Who works at Acme AI?" or "What did Bob invest in this quarter?" resolve across graph paths via `gbrain lookup --graph`.

### 3. The Overnight "Dream Cycle"
Raw data ingestion tends to degrade over time through duplicates, dead citations, and conflicting facts. GBrain runs background maintenance jobs while the system is idle. This process deduplicates entity records, patches broken citation links, scores node relevance, highlights internal contradictions, and stages task queues for the following day.

## Systems Architecture: Storage, Retrieval, and Execution

The infrastructure balances local developer velocity with multi-tenant team scaling.

```
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                         Query Routing                              |
|                                                                    |
|  gbrain ask "Meeting context..."                                   |
|        |                                                           |
|        +--> Mode: raw    (Direct Vector / Keyword Fetch)           |
|        +--> Mode: hybrid (Reciprocal-Rank Fusion + Intent Rewrite) |
|        +--> Mode: full   (Adjacency Boost + Multi-Hop Graph)       |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
```

* **Storage Topology:** For local-first workloads (up to ~50k pages), GBrain embeds **PGLite** (Postgres 17 running via WASM) requiring zero external infrastructure. For team deployments, it points directly to **Postgres + pgvector** (self-hosted or Supabase). The ground truth stays preserved as raw Markdown inside a Git-tracked "brain repo" that continuously syncs to Postgres.
* **Hybrid Retrieval Stack:** Retrieval combines HNSW indexing on pgvector with BM25 keyword matching via Reciprocal-Rank Fusion (RRF). Queries pass through intent-aware query rewriting, source-tier boosting, adjacency boosts, and cross-source boosts. Execution is tunable through three explicit modes: `raw`, `hybrid`, and `full`.
* **Subagent Resilience with Minions:** To keep subagents from crashing mid-execution, GBrain includes **Minions**, a Postgres-native job queue. Minions implements a two-phase persistence model that preserves task state and enables self-healing recovery across process failures.
* **Adaptive Schema Packs:** System taxonomy is not hardcoded. The runtime ships with default schema definitions (`core.v1.0.json`), but allows custom schemas. Swapping a schema pack triggers a dynamic re-interpretation of the underlying data without schema migration breakage.
* **Evaluation Framework:** GBrain contains an internal dashboard to validate engine updates. It replays historical production queries against modified codebases, benchmarks retrieval deltas, and cross-evaluates task outputs against frontier models from three separate providers.

## Deployment and Ecosystem Integration

GBrain is built to be bootstrapped directly by an autonomous agent. If you operate an agent on OpenClaw or Hermes, provisioning runs through a single command:

```bash
gbrain install --prod --openclaw --hermes
```

The automated installer configures the storage engine, generates system keys, registers 43 modular skills, schedules the 66 dream cycle jobs, and completes an end-to-end verification run within roughly 30 minutes.

```bash
# Querying synthesized context with gap detection
gbrain ask "What do I need to know before my meeting with Alice tomorrow?"
```

For broader multi-client environments, GBrain exposes over 30 tools over the Model Context Protocol (MCP) using both stdio and HTTP transports. This provides native connectivity for:

* Claude Desktop and Code
* Cursor
* ChatGPT
* Perplexity
* Cowork
* Google Gemini

GBrain avoids treating memory as an unorganized bucket of text embeddings. By pairing zero-overhead graph indexing with hybrid retrieval and continuous offline synthesis, it gives agents a durable, self-correcting memory layer ready for high-reliability production workflows.

## References
* https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain

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