Notes.

Short observations from building systems, working with AI and shipping in public.

10 of 21 entries · context-bridge · Updated Aug 6, 2026

01

Newest is not mine

The bridge picked the wrong OpenCode session. It picked the newest one. That was the bug. OpenCode keeps every session in one SQLite store,...

context-bridge Aug 6, 2026 1 min read
02

Late is not lost

The first handoff into OpenCode didn't arrive. It waited until a session existed. That's a real bug. It's fixed. But it was never a data los...

context-bridge Aug 6, 2026 1 min read
03

No session, no message

I was writing into someone else's database. I read the schema. I understood the tables. I made the insert. It worked. What I missed wasn't h...

context-bridge Aug 6, 2026 1 min read
04

Use the real tool, not the side door

Mid-flow, it is tempting to reach for whatever glue moves the work instead of the tool you are building. While building the review chain for...

context-bridge Aug 5, 2026 1 min read
05

Why tombstones have no age cap

Unlinking an agent leaves a tombstone, so that agent's stale hooks become no-ops and a session started outside the bridge can never silently...

context-bridge Aug 5, 2026 1 min read
06

The first one is the unbounded one

Every delta context-bridge sends is clipped to fit: summary first, as much conversation as there is room for, the rest parked in a checkpoin...

context-bridge Aug 5, 2026 1 min read
07

A hook delivers context, not a turn

Claude Code and Codex both take their handoff through a SessionStart hook. It is the cleanest road in — the delta arrives inside the convers...

context-bridge Aug 5, 2026 1 min read
08

Delivered means answered, not started

context-bridge used to record a handoff as delivered the moment the target agent's process started. That is the obvious place to put it: the...

context-bridge Aug 5, 2026 1 min read

Not tutorials. Decisions, failures and small things worth remembering.

09

Send the delta, not the transcript

The lazy way to move context between two coding agents is to copy the whole conversation. It is also the wrong way. A transcript is large, i...

context-bridge Jul 28, 2026 1 min read
10

Vendor session formats break silently

The worst bug in context-bridge was not in my code. Every handoff reported success and carried an empty delta. Claude Code, Codex and Grok k...

context-bridge Jul 28, 2026 1 min read