Nathan Labenz: belief

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…Yeah, yeah. So yeah, the repos that I've My GitHub repos only have code. All the data is in CloudFlare databases. People talk a lot about the agents really understand how to look at file systems. And that does sound like a good approach, but I just haven't tried it. I actually have it. It's a SQLite database that just runs locally. So it is probably similar in terms of like, you know, it's a query action for the agent. And another thing that I do that's kind of similar is I have sort of the top level Claude file point to other Claude files so that if it doesn't need to kind of know what's going on in another project, it can still go see that. I'm trying to mostly make that kind of one directional because some of the projects that I do split out that I want to collaborate on, like when Salient One is tools for the production of the podcast. That started off intermingled with my personal e-mail and history and communications and all that stuff. And I was, okay, well, I want to share this with a couple people so we can work together on it. Obviously, I don't want to share my entire e-mail history, not because I don't trust anyone, but just because that's what the people who've sent me those emails I think would want me to do. And so splitting them off, then I'm like, okay, how do I want Claude to... I don't think this is like, robust security, to be clear. But if I start Claude in the main one, it has pointers to the other one. But if I start it in the other one, it doesn't have obvious pointers up. It could, you know, look around and get outside of its immediate view, but it's at least not like instructed to do that. And then also, if somebody else clones that separate repro, then they're not going to have the main one anyway. So, you know, on their computer, it just wouldn't have that kind of access. But okay, cool. Helpful. And then, yeah, and so then you asked, like, am I mirroring data, right? So yeah, so I built one of the projects is called Mirror, by the way, only just now realizing that everything I've been talking to, you know, half the listeners will only be listening and not seeing. So I'll describe a little more. So this is just listing all of the different data things I've integrated with to pull data out of. So it's pulling my Google contents, Google Calendar, sorry, Contacts, Google Calendar, Gmail, WhatsApp, Slack. Twitter, Google Docs, Signal, and SMS messages off of my phone. And so this is, again, the kind of thing I would have never built myself. There's this whole status dashboard of how many records have been imported and how's that going and whatever. I don't even look at this. I only used this briefly when I was first getting it working. So the idea is, now I'm building up this rich database of all that content that I can use for context. I haven't actually done much with it other than driving the real-time inbox view. But, you know, and there's a whole, you know, web UI for searching and, you know, viewing backups and all this toolkit, which again, I used briefly while I was troubleshooting to begin with. Then it's done.…

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