{"slug": "ted-haley-releases-pensieve-a-local-search-tool-for-coding-agents", "title": "Ted Haley releases Pensieve, a local search tool for coding agents", "summary": "Ted Haley released Pensieve on October 12th, a free, open-source Mac app that builds a local index across code, documents and coding-agent sessions and serves relevant passages to agents via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The product page reports 43% fewer tool calls on file-finding tasks than grep, Glob and Read, though the benchmark is small and company-run.", "body_md": "# Ted Haley releases Pensieve, a local search tool for coding agents\n\n**The free Mac app indexes code, documents and agent sessions. Its product-page benchmark reports 43% fewer tool calls on file-finding tasks than grep, Glob and Read, though the test is small and company-run.**\n\n        By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)\n        · Published \n\nPrimary source: [Pensieve](https://tedhaley.ca/pensieve/)\n\n## Why it matters\n\nAs coding agents consume more repository context, search quality becomes a cost and workflow issue. Pensieve offers a local alternative and publishes a benchmark developers can reproduce, though its current results remain product-run and narrow.\n\nOn October 12th, Ted Haley published the [Pensieve product page](https://tedhaley.ca/pensieve/?ref=runtimewire), offering a free, open-source Mac tool that builds a local index across code, documents and coding-agent sessions. It serves relevant passages to agents through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Haley built it around a practical problem in AI-assisted coding: agents can spend time and tokens searching through a repository before they find the file that matters.…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ted-haley-releases-pensieve-a-local-search-tool-for-coding-agents", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/pensieve-local-index-coding-agents-ted-haley", "published_at": "2026-10-12 02:45:26+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-12 03:38:30.702699+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "ai-tools", "agent-protocols"], "entities": ["Ted Haley", "Pensieve", "Model Context Protocol", "Mac"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ted-haley-releases-pensieve-a-local-search-tool-for-coding-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ted-haley-releases-pensieve-a-local-search-tool-for-coding-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ted-haley-releases-pensieve-a-local-search-tool-for-coding-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ted-haley-releases-pensieve-a-local-search-tool-for-coding-agents.jsonld"}}