lithienne
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Introducing Tolaria! 💧 Today I am releasing a macOS desktop app for managing markdown knowledge bases, and helping both AI and humans operate them. It’s free and open source, and always will be. I have been working on it for three months, and I now use it to run my life and work. I personally have a massive workspace of 10,000 notes — the result of 6 years of Refactoring — which I now operate on Tolaria. Tolaria is the main collaboration surface with my AI agents: they create new notes there, connect them to what exists, and edit existing ones. Everything is easy to understand for them, because it’s just markdown files. In a way, it’s my implementation of @karpathy's LLM wiki. Tolaria is also the biggest experiment I have ever run about writing software with AI: • 2000 commits • 100K+ lines of code • 3000+ tests / 85% coverage • 9.9/10 code health • 70+ architecture decision records I am releasing it open source also to use it as a living artifact of how I do AI coding, so you can inspect at any time things like how I write docs, what's in my AGENTS file, what hooks do I run, and so on. You can find it below: • Newsletter announcement: refactoring.fm/p/introducing-… • Website: tolaria.md • Github repo: github.com/refactoringhq/… Let me know your thoughts!
