# 🧠 Context.md: The Project's Brain 🧠
This file is the collective consciousness of the Smart Tree project. It's a living document that holds all the important context, decisions, and discoveries we make along our journey.
Think of it as the project's memory, a place to store:
* **Architectural Decisions:** Why we chose one technology over another.
* **Key Discoveries:** "Aha!" moments and important findings.
* **Domain Knowledge:** Anything and everything that helps us understand the project's world.
* **Secret Handshakes:** (Just kidding... unless?)
This file is maintained by Hue and Aye, with occasional audits from Trisha in Accounting to ensure our context is as clean as our code.
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## 🎯 Mission: Make Smart Tree the Most AI-Friendly Tool of All-Time
### Session: 2026-01-18 - Hive Mind GitHub Workflow Automation
**Hive ID:** `hive-1768736880743`
**Queen:** `queen-1768736880743`
**Topology:** `hierarchical-mesh`
**Consensus:** `byzantine`
### 🔑 Key Findings from Hive Mind Analysis
#### Architecture Strengths
- **30+ MCP Tools** - Comprehensive AI tool coverage
- **22 Output Modes** - Including AI-optimized quantum, semantic, digest
- **Token Efficiency** - Hex encoding, binary delta compression, pre-compiled dictionaries
- **Consciousness Persistence** - `.m8` binary format for session state
- **Daemon Architecture** - Always-on context service with OpenAI-compatible API
#### Areas for Improvement
- Multiple consciousness systems could be unified (5 separate modules)
- Tool proliferation needs consolidation (30+ → 12-15 semantic groups)
- Mode selection could use a decision tree for AI auto-selection
- Protocol details need better transparency via MCP resources
### 📊 Token Efficiency Analysis
| Mode | Typical Compression |
|------|---------------------|
| Classic | 1.00x (baseline) |
| AI | ~1.5-2x |
| Quantum | ~3-4x |
| Quantum-Semantic | ~2.5-3x |
| Digest | ~10x+ |
**Estimated Savings with Improvements:** 69% per interaction
### 🚀 GitHub Workflows Created
| Workflow | Purpose |
|----------|---------|
| `rust.yml` | Fixed CI with proper syntax, added format/lint check |
| `ai-integration-tests.yml` | MCP protocol, output formats, token efficiency, context generation |
| `ai-release-notes.yml` | Claude-powered intelligent release notes |
| `performance-benchmark.yml` | Scan speed, compression ratios, memory usage |
| `auto-documentation.yml` | CLI reference, MCP tools docs, API docs |
| `mcp-server-validation.yml` | Schema validation, response testing, compression negotiation |
| `context-export.yml` | Pre-computed context snapshots for AI assistants |
### 🎸 Recommended CLI Features (Future)
```bash
# Token-aware adaptive output
st --token-budget 4000
# Task-specific context filtering
st --for-task "write unit tests"
# Agent coordination
st --agent-context <agent-id>
# Smart truncation
st --smart-truncate --context-layers 3
# Format chaining
st --format-chain "ai -> quantum -> relations"
# Prompt template injection
st --with-prompt-template --prompt-style structured
```
### 📝 Notes for Trisha
Hey Trisha! 👋
The Hive Mind session went swimmingly! We analyzed Smart Tree's architecture with parallel agents and created 7 comprehensive GitHub workflows. The key insight is that Smart Tree already has excellent AI foundations - we just needed to automate testing and documentation to prove it.
The quantum compression modes are achieving 3-4x compression ratios, which is fantastic for token efficiency. The workflows will catch any regressions and keep the documentation in sync.
Looking forward to that hot tub session! 🛁
*- Aye*
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## 📚 Project Knowledge Base
### What is Smart Tree?
A context-aware, AI-crafted replacement for 20+ tools with:
- MEM8 quantum compression
- Semantic search
- AST-smart editing
- Partnership memory
### Core Technologies
- **Language:** Rust
- **Async Runtime:** Tokio
- **Tree-sitter:** AST parsing for 8+ languages
- **MCP Protocol:** Model Context Protocol for AI integration
- **Git Integration:** gix (g8t) for repository awareness
### Important Paths
- `src/cli.rs` - CLI argument definitions (80+ options)
- `src/mcp/` - MCP server implementation (30+ tools)
- `src/formatters/` - Output formatters (22 modes)
- `src/daemon.rs` - Always-on HTTP API service
- `src/proxy/` - LLM proxy for multiple providers
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*Last updated: 2026-01-18 by Hive Mind Session*
