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Watching my AI agents go crazy just to locate a single line of code  felt like hunting for a **needle in a stack of needles**. 🔍 🔍 🔍🤬

So I whipped up a little experiment called grep-anchors or "grepa". Just drop ":ga:<text>" anchors in comments and your tools (or agents) *teleport* to the right spot. Like the TODO's and FIXME's before, but with some conventions for predictability (and composability).

🚢 Early days, but I’m already seeing way fewer fruitless tool calls!

🍇 Grepa = “grep-anchors.”

- ultra-terse tags (":ga:tldr start here", ":ga:perf,todo")
- one anchor pattern per repo
- dead-simple to insert, grep on, and agents are fast to understand how to search/write them

Conventions & docs »

Co-founder XMTP, building web3's secure messaging layer ➡️ https://xmtp.org

🍇 Grepa = “grep-anchors.”

- ultra-terse tags (":ga:tldr start here", ":ga:perf,todo")
- one anchor pattern per repo
- dead-simple to insert, grep on, and agents are fast to understand how to search/write them

Conventions & docs » https://github.com/galligan/grepa

⚠️ This is very much a proof-of-concept and I’d love feedback before v0.1!

Drop a reply, issue, or PR! 🙏