{"slug": "show-hn-long-term-memory-agent-for-real-world-data-work", "title": "Show HN: Long term memory agent for \"real world\" data work", "summary": "An engineer identifying as an FDE launched Portia, a long-term memory agent for real-world data preparation that persists work sessions across chats, on Hacker News via a Show HN post. Portia works with Claude Code, Codex, or a local model via llama.cpp or ollama, and can operate on Postgres databases, CSV files, or cloud data hosted in Snowflake or BigQuery. The tool targets data problems such as corrupted migrations, multiple taxonomy versions, and duplicate columns, which the poster described as the bottleneck in client projects.", "body_md": "Hi HN!\n\nI am an FDE and in all my clients' projects I have encountered the same problem: real world data preparation is the bottleneck. Company data doesn't only come with the usual Kaggle problems, it also has a wide range of other problems: corrupted migrations, multiple versions of taxonomies, duplicate columns and many more. Each problem requires a decision and portia helps accelerate all those and keep everything in a long term memory making work sessions persist from one chat to another. Today portia works with Claude Code, Codex or a local model (llama.cpp or ollama). The data can be a Postgres database, CSV files or hosted in the cloud (Snowflake or BQ).\n\nHappy to answer any questions!\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49993790](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49993790)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-long-term-memory-agent-for-real-world-data-work", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/Jad1908/portia", "published_at": "2026-10-07 15:00:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-07 15:22:06.231644+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Portia", "Hacker News", "Claude Code", "Codex", "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "Postgres", "Snowflake"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-long-term-memory-agent-for-real-world-data-work", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-long-term-memory-agent-for-real-world-data-work.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-long-term-memory-agent-for-real-world-data-work.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-long-term-memory-agent-for-real-world-data-work.jsonld"}}