Twiceshy

Once bitten, twice shy.

A self-hosted service that feeds hard-won engineering experience — issues, dead-ends, root causes, validated fixes — to LLM coding agents at decision time, so they stop repeating known mistakes on autopilot. A private, curated, validated StackOverflow that injects itself at the right moment.

Hosted alpha

The hosted instance runs at twiceshy.app — self-serve tokens, remote MCP endpoint https://api.twiceshy.app/. External contributions require a signed CLA before merge (ADR-0002).

How it works (the locked architecture)

• Source of truth: git-backed markdown experience records (YAML frontmatter
  • narrative) — format in docs/SCHEMA.md. The corpus is a separate versioned data product (twiceshy-corpus, ADR-0021); the engine ships a small frozen fixture (internal/testcorpus/) for tests.
• Index: one derived, always-rebuildable SQLite file (FTS5; sqlite-vec later).
• Retrieval: fingerprint-exact → BM25 → dense (RRF), stack-fingerprint filtered, hard cap k≤3 with a relevance floor — below it, nothing is injected.
• Channels: push (Claude Code hooks → trap cards), pull (MCP tools over streamable HTTP), index (generated one-liners).
• Trust: agent-proposed records are quarantined; promotion = sandbox fail-to-pass validation + human PR review. A new record IS a pull request.
• Doctors: background jobs that dedup, staleness-check, re-execute repros (CI for memories), decay, and abstract.

Full rationale: docs/research/EXPERIENCE_SERVICE_RESEARCH.md and docs/adr/ADR-0001-architecture.md.

Status

Bootstrapping. Phase 1 (read path: parser/validator, FTS5 index, fingerprint + lexical search, MCP search_experience/get_experience) is done, and the Phase 3 write path (record_experience — propose-only, returns a quarantined draft to open as a PR) has landed. Remaining phases (hooks push channel, dense retrieval, doctors) are tracked as issues.

Development

make ci    # lint + race tests + coverage floor — what CI runs

See docs/CONVENTIONS.md and docs/CONTEXT.md first.

License

AGPL-3.0-only. Contribution and corpus licensing: docs/adr/ADR-0002-licensing-strategy.md.