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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
We don’t store your code or any proprietary local content on our servers. When we say “external context” we mean public or user-approved remote sources like docs, packages or APIs. Those are indexed on our side. Your private project code st
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
hey, what error does it throw?
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
Nia is focused on external context rather than learning the patterns inside your own codebase. Cursor and IDE-native tools are better for local project structure today. Where Nia helps is when the agent needs ground truth from outside your
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
going to open source it soon :)
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
yeah, their mcp is to provide better context of your own codebase. not external information.
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
thanks! will be waiting for ur feedback
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
Serena is great for semantic code editing and symbol-level retrieval on your own codebase. It gives the agent IDE-like capabilities inside the repo. Nia focuses on a different layer. We target external context: remote code, docs, packages,
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
augment is a coding agent. nia is an external context engine for coding agents that improves their code output quality
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
as I mentioned above there are many more use cases than just coding (APIs, research, knowledge bases, even personal or enterprise data sources the agent needs to explore and validate dynamically) I started out with coding agents specificall
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
hey! i use multiple DBs but the primary ones are turbopuffer and chroma for package search. they are really great re local, I do local for certain companies!
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
glad to hear that!
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
looks cool, what's the largest codebase you have tested it on?
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
yeah ux is pretty bad and overall functionality. it still relies on a static retrieval layer and limited index scope. + as I mentioned above there are many more use cases than just coding.Think docs, APIs, research, knowledge bases, even pe
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
https://www.nozomio.com/blog/nia-oracle-benchmark
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
thank you haha!
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
The goal here is not to replace Cursor’s own local codebase indexing. Cursor already does that part well. What Nia focuses on is external context. It lets agents pull in accurate information from remote sources like docs, packages, APIs, an
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
great question! For large and active codebases, we avoid full reindexing. Nia tracks diffs and file level changes, so background workers only reindex what actually changed. We are also building “inline agents” that watch pull requests or re
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
hey! knowledge graphs are also used at runtime but paired with other techniques, since graphs are only useful for relationship queries.
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
Which would be much better than the techniques used in 2023. As context windows increase, combining them becomes even easier. There are a lot of ways of how you can interpret agentic rag, pure rag, etc
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
Not exactly just RAG. The shift is agentic discovery paired with semantic search. Also, most of the coding agents still combine RAG and agentic search. See cursor blog about how semantic search helps them understand and navigate massive cod
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by jellyotsiro 10mo ago
Wouldn’t call it just RAG though. Agentic discovery and semantic search are the way to go right now, so Nia combines both approaches. For example, you can dynamically search through a documentation tree or grep for specific things.
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Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents(trynia.ai)
131 points by jellyotsiro 10mo ago|87 comments
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by jellyotsiro 1y ago
same here, tried both context7 and ref tools.
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by jellyotsiro 1y ago
- deep research agent to enrich and give more context - support for both documentation and entire codebases (both private and public)
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by jellyotsiro 1y ago
you should def give it a try, happy to hear what u think
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by jellyotsiro 1y ago
what laptop are you using? it shows 96/100 performance for most ppl:)
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by jellyotsiro 1y ago
oh damn interesting
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by jellyotsiro 1y ago
any companies that instantly come to mind that have similar structure you described? just curious (p sure browser use is one of them)
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by jellyotsiro 1y ago
that's smart! I’ve actually been thinking about integrating something like Mermaid flowcharts directly into Nia’s output—visual context can make cursor etc understand context way better. have you found any particular types of problems
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by jellyotsiro 1y ago
Was thinking a lot about open sourcing MCP specifically. Will keep you in the loop

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