Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal (github.com)

70 points by lajosdeme 14 hours ago

10 comments:

by daybox 13 hours ago

> Never spend more than you budgeted

I assume that this is "$ spent on search + $ spent on LLM" < budget, but how do you handle the LLM spending more than you would expect on a request? Or is this handled by max_tokens and some form of pricing table? (and if so, how does caching play a role?)

by basedpolymer 13 hours ago

https://github.com/tw93/Mole I see a certain conflict of interest.

by nusl 12 hours ago

How is this a conflict of interest instead of a plain naming conflict?

by themadturk 8 hours ago

Yeah, we need a name change here. Mole for Mac is a very nice system maintenance app, for both terminal and GUI.

by cmdrmac 13 hours ago

agreed! Name change is needed.

by lfx 13 hours ago

DataMole? ResearchRat? DRR? (Deep Research Rat)?

by bobek 5 hours ago

DataMole is already in use by a company [0].

[0]: https://www.datamole.ai/

by hankbond 8 hours ago

> Honest numbers

I'm glad your numbers are honest! For a moment I thought, hey, maybe this person's numbers are lying to me... but it turned out they were not so thank you!

by conception 3 hours ago

They are honest because they load bear the seam.

by recroad 12 hours ago

That is a LOT of code for a pretty basic feature.

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