[jahala]

I implemented this hash (read and edit) approach in tilth if you want to test it out.

https://github.com/jahala/tilth

its on npm and cargo:

- cargo install tilth

- npx tilth

then tilth install claude-code/windsurf/cursor --edit

(--edit flag is needed)

I made "tilth" a few days ago, since I'm consistently trying to get the LLMs to use tools more efficiently and spend less tokens doing it -- original tilth post from Monday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46952321

[hedgehog]

You might find it useful for markdown as well, especially if you add support for section-based addressing (e.g. cat or replace a section at a time). Section-based addresses are nice because they tend to be stable across versions.

[jahala]

Great idea - Just implemented this.

(Already published on cargo, on npm in a few mins).

[kachapopopow]

benchmarks vs grep?

[jahala]

tilth isn’t trying to replace grep for raw text search — for that, it wraps ripgrep internally so perf is comparable. It’s about reducing round-trips and giving the agent a verified edit workflow, not faster search.

Instead of cat + grep + manual line counting, one tool call returns a structural outline of a large file, lets you drill into sections, and since this last update also returns hashline-anchored output that an edit tool can target.