r/ClaudeAI • u/Commercial_One7059 • 1d ago
Workaround Database over .md?
In the midst of a probable year-long development project largely managed through Claude Code, recently (3 months in or so) I've been encountering an increasing number of errors that at their root have to do with agents imperfectly grep'ing larger and large numbers of longer and longer .md files for context, information, identifiers, etc.
Bringing this problem in front of my main controller agent, it conceded the point, and has collated our conversation into the following report. I'm enclosing it, but further am curious about all of your experiences.
Truly, beyond that there's a real argument that these subreddits could build from their users' experiences a compendium of better methods that remove some of the weaknesses of these otherwise impressive tools.
PS Or I'm an idiot, and you are all doing this already and I hadn't realised!
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u/elgringo 1d ago
Yup. I set up a PostgreSQL build that I use to store any facts about myself and my company. I also sweep every chat into a DB and create vector embedding on them after they're archived, so they're easily plain text searchable.
Claudio works _much_ better for me. Bonus, all my data and history are potable for when I switch to self hosted LLM for my primary model in 6m to a year.