Release deep-dives, bug post-mortems, and technical notes from the team building ashlr.
Token counts are a real operating cost. ashlr is the open-source plugin that fixes the read-everything problem in Codex and Claude Code — cutting mean token usage by 57% across TypeScript, Python, and Rust reference repos.
ReadUsers were seeing 'session +0' even as lifetime savings climbed. The root cause: CLAUDE_SESSION_ID is not forwarded to MCP server subprocesses. Here's how we diagnosed it and what candidateSessionIds() does to fix it.
Readv1.8.0 shipped client-side AES-256-GCM encryption for shared team genomes. This post walks through the threat model, how keys are managed, and how encryption pairs with the vclock-based sync layer.
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