[furyofantares]

CC is so good with grep that I'm half expecting to clutter its context with bad results from semantic search. But also half optimistic at this just improving its search.

If you're getting useful results from hybrid mode that's very interesting to me since well-constructed grep that claude executes don't really look like they'd work great for semantic search to me! But intuition is often wrong on this stuff.

I am very curious your thoughts on speed. I'd rather any tools claude invokes be as fast as possible so it can get feedback immediately and execute again.

[postalcoder]

if you’re concerned about context you can trivially make a hook that will prune your conversation history of older semantic search results.

i do a lot of context management with hooks for all sorts of tool calls.

[furyofantares]

That sounds great - do you have any examples?

[postalcoder]

For example I have a Stop hook that scans my messages to see which files we've worked on. It'll check to see if the changes to those files have been committed and, if not, it will prevent Claude from stopping and send it a message to commit the specific files in a specific style that includes the id of the current session. The same script also cleans up all previous instances of the same message in the conversation, saving like 5k tokens per session.

I have a lot of PreToolUse hooks that injects guideline messages whenever certain tools are called or bash commands run. My hooks also prune older versions of those out of context. All of the transcripts are in ~/.claude/projects/ in jsonl format and are hot-editable.