Ted Haley releases Pensieve, a local search tool for coding agents

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.

Ted Haley releases Pensieve, a local search tool for coding agents 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. By Ryan Merket https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket · Published Primary source: Pensieve https://tedhaley.ca/pensieve/ Why it matters As 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. On 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.…