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Landon Cox Peli de Halleux Rodrigo Fonseca Grace Jia Vic Li Pedro Henrique Penna

Limit what agents learn about private repos with enclaves

Enclaves are a new security primitive for cross-repository GitHub Agentic Workflows. Enclaves let agents work on different repositories while limiting what they say to each other.

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Russell Horton

Sparkle Pills

A flexible templating convention for contextual inference

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Alex Gorischek

Knowledge Compressor

How far can documentation be compressed without losing its meaning?

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Russell Horton

WikiKB: a fast, repository-native knowledge base for people and agents

WikiKB is an efficient, transparent, and explicitly curated knowledge base layer for humans and agents, built on the GitHub repository wiki.

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Russell Horton

Evergreen: Your PR Gardener

Evergreen helps keep pull requests green and mergeable by fixing CI failures and merge conflicts, and keeping PR branches up to date with the base branch.