case studies
How to Find the Errors That Matter in a Log of 63 Thousand Lines
Something went wrong overnight and the service log is 5.6 MB: 63,369 lines. Most of them are cache hits and request logs. Somewhere in there are the errors, each one …
Tag
context reduction
release
Abbreviatory Launches as an Open Source Tool That Cuts Test Runs and Logs Down to What Matters
Abbreviatory v0.1.0 is out. It’s a small command-line tool that takes a big pile of tool output, a test run, a build log, a JSON response, and turns it into a short …
testing
How Abbreviatory Was Tested Against Its Four Promises
A tool that leaves things out has to be careful about what. So the testing for v0.1.0 is built around four promises, checked over and over: the report never goes over the …
explainer
What Context Reduction Is and Why Abbreviatory Does It Without a Language Model
Context is whatever a reader has in front of them when they decide what to do next. For a person, it’s the terminal. For a coding agent, it’s the text that …
the name
Why the Project Is Called Abbreviatory
The name says what it does. Abbreviatory is an old adjective meaning “serving to shorten”, from abbreviate plus -ory, the ending that turns a verb into …