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by kveykva 1064 days ago
Hello! I'm the author. If anyone has questions or feedback I'd really appreciate it!
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What are some exciting ways you think people with Chidori?
I hope that people will be able to build agents in a way that makes deliberate methodical progress towards them successfully executing given tasks. Part of this could be tracing alone, which is something that I explored using opentelemetry on my own agents. But I found that I wanted to be able to understand the specific structure of the agent as I iterated on it as well. So Chidori attempts to allow you to do that, while having some properties that I feel assist with managing complexity!

Agents that work 80-90% of the time rather than 30-40% of the time would be awesome. And I think part of that is being able to iterate on specific pieces of the agent's behavior in a deliberate way.

You stole the name from Naruto...didn't you? Which is fine. It's been what, over 15 years since the episode/manga with that technique debuted? I guess I shouldn't be surprised someone young who watched it grew up and made a thing.
It's definitely a reference to it! It also broadly does mean thousand birds.
I don't know much about Naruto so initially I thought it could be a Persona 3 reference.
Lore dump: This is not a coincidence, as the characters themselves refer to the chidori being named due to sounding like thousands of birds. The alternate name used by kakashi, raikiri, is related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachibana_D%C5%8Dsetsu
Interestingly, in the Shona language it means 'puppet' which I found very appropriate as it is a functional framework which you have behave in whatever way you want.

This was my primary assumption re nomenclature

Ah, nostalgia.

Someone better make another called Rasengan.

Hello, I’m interested in adopting your framework for what I’m building.

Your docs are WIP, and I have a bunch of queries. How do I contact you?

The discord server linked from the github would work! I'd love to find out what the specific questions are. Alternatively twitter DM would also work @kveykva.