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Turning Coding Sessions Into Shared Agent Memory
Recurring discoveries in Claude Code and Codex show why shared agent memory needs explanations and sources.
Taylor DolezalHead of OSSHow 20 Vercel AI SDK tickets drove the agent cost gap
Claude Code on Opus 5.5 and Codex on GPT 6.1 Sol attempted the same 49 tickets. The recorded cost gap came entirely from high-scope work.
Taylor DolezalHead of OSSProcedural Memory for Coding Agents: Turning Knowledge Into Action
Learn how to turn a coding agent's discovery into a shared procedure, choose where the instructions belong, and check that the next agent uses them correctly.
Taylor DolezalHead of OSSSemantic memory for coding agents needs a history
Your coding agent needs to know which facts still apply. Our Celery-to-DBOS migration shows why semantic memory needs scope, dates, and source evidence.
Taylor DolezalHead of OSSEpisodic memory for coding agents: What survives your sessions
Episodic memory is a coding agent's record of past sessions. Saved lessons can outlive the transcripts behind them, so keep each lesson tied to its source.
Taylor DolezalHead of OSSSeptember Drop: Dosu goes back to school
Dosu studies coding sessions, shows what your agent reads, and makes your credits go further.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOHow to Build Agent Memory: Maintenance
How to keep agent memory useful as things change: preserve evidence, scope updates, choose maintenance triggers, and measure whether memories still help.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOHow to Build Agent Memory: Search & Retrieval
How agents find and use what they've learned: choosing a search strategy, returning useful context, and balancing precise evidence with higher-level understanding.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOA Correct Translation Can Still Be Wrong in Meaning
A settings label translated 'correctly' and still meant the wrong thing. The fix wasn't a better dictionary, but context — and it's already scattered across your code, PRs, and conversations.
Danny DaiSoftware Engineering InternHow to Build Agent Memory: Knowledge Capture
How to decide what agents should remember: five questions for evaluating knowledge, choosing its structure, and capturing discoveries for future work.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOHow to design a CLI login flow for coding agents
Design a CLI login for coding agents with a ticket flow that pauses, resumes in a new process, and returns the next command in JSON. Learn how Dosu built it.
Taylor DolezalHead of OSSHow to Build Agent Memory: Where Does Knowledge Live?
Agent memory starts with representation and storage. Here's how to decide what knowledge looks like, where it lives, and what is worth maintaining.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOYour coding agent budget pays for context, not code
Planning and gathering context account for two thirds of agent costs.
OSS has Changed. So has Dosu.
Changes coming to Dosu OSS plan on Sept 1st. ~96% of OSS projects see no change.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOHow to Build Agent Memory: The Building Blocks of Agent Memory
We break down 'Are We Ready for an Agent-Native Memory System?' — the four building blocks of agent memory: storage, extraction, retrieval, and maintenance.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOAugust Drop: Turn your old agent logs into Dosu knowledge
Configure Dosu from chat, understand its impact in the app, and find out what your agents read.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOIntroducing Decant: Insights for your Claude Code and Codex sessions
Claude Code and Codex log every session you run. Decant turns those logs into real numbers for what your agents did and how much it cost, without leaving your machine.
Taylor DolezalHead of OSSJuly Dosu Drop: Addition by Subtraction
No more waitlist, simpler Knowledge Cache tools, and new stats on Dosu's impact.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOJune Drop: Introducing Libraries and Agents
We overhauled how you configure Dosu, inspired by a short story from 1941.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOAutomate recurring work with Dosu Templates
Turn recurring, judgment-heavy work like release notes, status updates, and triage into a reusable Dosu Template that Dosu drafts from your connected sources.
Taylor DolezalHead of OSSA stale AGENTS.md is worse than no AGENTS.md
Cloudflare built an internal platform to keep AGENTS.md files fresh across thousands of repos. Here are the methods to keep yours current, and how we do it at Dosu.
Taylor DolezalHead of OSSMay Drop: New usage analytics to see Dosu's impact
Plus: bulk doc generation, support for more formats, and agent-driven setup
Devin SteinFounder and CEOHow Fresh Are Your Docs? Score Documentation Freshness in CI
A 0-100 freshness signal that catches documentation drift in CI on every PR. Three deterministic checks plus a Claude Code semantic layer for the gray zone.
Taylor DolezalHead of OSSIntroducing better-stale-bot, an AI GitHub Stale Bot That Reads First
Meet better-stale-bot, an open source GitHub stale bot alternative that reads inactive issues, summarizes context, and closes only when the thread supports it.
April Drop: Knowledge from hundreds of open source projects, now available via MCP
Plus templates, the return of Slack DMs, an improved CLI, and more!
Devin SteinFounder and CEOAgentic Infrastructure: What We Learned Hosting a Panel With LanceDB, CodeRabbit, and CrewAI
Four companies focused on agentifying their tech stack. One rewrote its codebase for AI. Another found PII leaking through OpenTelemetry traces.
A Claude Code Skill for Auto-Generating Project Docs
Generate your project's entire documentation layer from source code with a single Claude Code skill. Build /doc-it and run it against a real FastAPI project.
Taylor DolezalHead of OSSNew at Dosu: Doc Export, Easier Reviews and Upcoming Events
Generate docs with Dosu and sync them to Notion, Confluence or GitHub
Devin SteinFounder and CEOHow to Catch Documentation Drift with Claude Code and GitHub Actions
Let's craft a GitHub Actions workflow with Claude Code that helps to catch stale docs as you iterate on your code.
Taylor DolezalHead of OSSFebruary Dosu Drop: Maintain docs directly in Notion, Confluence and more
Let Dosu wrangle your docs with our new Import and Sync feature
Devin SteinFounder and CEOWhy Your Coding Agent Needs More Than a Static README
Vercel proved static context beats on-demand skills for coding agents. But static docs have limits, so we extended that principle with a living knowledge base and the Dosu MCP.
George XuFounding BizOps LeadBluefin: Community Support After StackExchange
Bluefin cut support response times from 42 hours to 12 minutes by using Dosu across six repositories.
Taylor DolezalHead of OSSWord2Vec To Transformers And Where We Are Today With AI
Understanding the foundational technology behind Dosu: from Word2Vec embeddings to Transformers and modern LLMs.
George XuFounding BizOps LeadJanuary Dosu Drop: New Year, New Docs
Better docs review and a first look at our MCP Server
Devin SteinFounder and CEOWhat tldraw and goose Are Teaching Us About AI-Ready Open Source
Two open source projects face the same AI contribution crisis and make different choices. Both were right.
Taylor DolezalHead of OSSDosu Drop: All-Docs December
New documentation features and a preview of what's next
Devin SteinFounder and CEOHow Dosu Powers CNCF’s Community Knowledge Platform
CNCF launched ask.cncf.io with Dosu at KubeCon NA 2025, answering 765 questions to help attendees navigate 200+ cloud native projects.
Taylor DolezalHead of OSSNovember Dosu Drop
Changelogs, custom response guidelines, better mobile support and more!
Devin SteinFounder and CEOHow IBM Research’s Docling Manages Open Source Growth with Dosu
IBM's Docling scaled from 0 to 40K GitHub stars (as of October 2025) in one year with just 4 maintainers. Check out how Dosu reduced response time by 99% and automated 70% of issues.
Taylor DolezalHead of OSSOctober Dosu Drop: Your Technical Ghost Writer
New this month: additional login methods, faster doc creation, Mermaid diagrams and more.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOSeptember Dosu Drop: The Autumn of Automation
New this month: Home page, global search, @mentions for sources, and automatic Topic tagging.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOFrom Celery to DBOS: Scaling Dosu’s Pipelines to 20k Workflows per Hour
See how Dosu scaled AI pipelines with DBOS: from Celery to durable workflows, real-time observability, and 20k jobs per hour serving 50k+ projects
Marcos PlaconaDevRelAlways Up to Date: Using AI to Generate and Maintain Documentation
Keep docs in sync automatically. Dosu generates, updates, and self-documents PRs so your documentation stays accurate with every code change.
Top 5 zombie problems resurrected by AI tools
Stale knowledge turns AI coding assistants into necromancers, resurrecting past disasters
Michael LuddenMarketingAugust Dosu Drop: Self-Documenting PRs
Dosu automatically edits your docs when code changes
Devin SteinFounder and CEOHow TriliumNext Revitalized an Abandoned Open Source Project with Dosu’s Help
In the world of open source software, few stories are as remarkable as the resurrection of Trilium Notes. What began as a community fork of an abandoned project has evolved into a powerful collaboration.
Michael LuddenMarketingThe Code Understanding Paradox: When AI Makes Writing Code Fast but Understanding It Slow
I've been thinking about Sonar CEO Tariq Shaukat's recent blog post Solving the Engineering Productivity Paradox from a Dosu angle.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOHow LanceDB Supercharged Our Knowledge Graph
How we scaled our knowledge graph by switching from pgvector to LanceDB, enabling millisecond search across millions of vectors.
Marcos PlaconaDevRelMastering Auto-Labeling: Taming the Backlog With Intelligent Labels
Streamline GitHub issues with Dosu’s auto-labeling. Learn taxonomy design, rollout steps, and metrics to keep backlogs organized and teams focused.
Marcos PlaconaDevRelJuly Dosu Drop: Public Spaces enter the chat
Introducing Public Spaces, now in beta, which are free public knowledge bases for open source projects.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOScaling support and documentation at Dify, one of the fastest growing OSS projects
Learn how Dify uses Dosu to effortlessly manage hundreds of issues per month with a small team.
Li ZhengDevRelHow Preset Keeps Apache Superset Healthy With AI-Driven Issue Triage
Discover how Preset uses Dosu’s AI to automate GitHub issue triage for Apache Superset, reducing maintainer workload and speeding up community support.
Marcos PlaconaDevRelWhat Lodash’s Issue Backlog reveals about OSS burnout (and How Dosu Helps Avoid It)
Discover how Lodash’s issue backlog highlights open source burnout and learn how Dosu’s AI tools help maintainers manage OSS projects efficiently.
Marcos PlaconaDevRelFrom Maintenance to Innovation: Freeing Developers With AI Automation
Discover how AI automation frees developers from maintenance tasks, boosts productivity, and transforms documentation and support workflows.
Internal vs External Documentation: Audience First
Learn how to create effective documentation by focusing on your audience first. Discover the key differences between internal and external docs and practical strategies for both.
GitHub features Dosu in first Awesome Continuous AI list
Dosu was recently featured in GitHub’s new Awesome Continuous AI list, both in the Continuous Triage and Continuous Documentation sections. Given that, we thought it’d be a good occasion to talk about how Dosu embodies the idea of Continuous AI and why we’re really bullish on the concept.
Michael LuddenMarketingAI Is Better at Maintaining Docs Than Humans
People have dreamed of living documentation–documentation that evolves as fast as your code–for decades but human bandwidth to review and update documentation has always been the bottleneck. Now with AI, we have a way to couple written knowledge to code and get the best of both worlds: easy to understand documentation that evolves with your code.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOBuilding the future of knowledge management - June Dosu Drop
June Dosu Drop: One-click documentation, @ mentions, improved code reasoning, and the new fact-based reasoning agent now GA. Building the future of automated knowledge management.
Devin SteinFounder and CEODosu’s new fact-based reasoning agent is generally available
Dosu's new fact-based reasoning agent is now generally available, featuring smarter problem-solving, customizable behavior controls, and improved knowledge management for development teams.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOBetter Agent Testing with Distributed Dependency Injection
How Dosu uses distributed dependency injection to improve agent testing and reliability.
Michael MangusHead of Product7 Data‑Driven Checks to ensure your Documentation ROI is high
Learn how to measure and improve your documentation ROI with these 7 data-driven checks.
Celery Preserializers: A low-friction path to Pydantic support
Learn how to add Pydantic support to Celery tasks with minimal friction using preserializers.
Michael MangusHead of ProductKnowledge Management in the AI Era: Why Documentation is More Critical Than Ever
Discover why comprehensive documentation is now essential for AI-powered development teams and how it can transform your engineering productivity in the age of intelligent automation.
May 2025 Dosu Drop - New Agent, Self-Serve Pricing, Fresh Look
Introducing Dosu's new fact-based reasoning agent, self-serve pricing, and a fresh new look in our May 2025 update.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOWhat The Mythical Man-Month Got Right About Documentation (And What We Forgot)
Let’s get this out of the way: no one gets into software because they love writing documentation.
April 2025 Newsletter - Dosu Does Docs
April 2025 updates from Dosu - focusing on documentation automation and improvements.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOCombating Open Source Maintainer Burnout with Automation
How automation can help combat open source maintainer burnout and improve project sustainability.
Automating GitHub Issue Triage
Learn how to automate GitHub issue triage to improve maintainer productivity and reduce burnout.
March 2025 Newsletter - Dosu Knows
March 2025 updates from Dosu - introducing new features and community insights.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOFebruary 2025 Newsletter - Introducing Spaces
February 2025 updates: Introducing Spaces - share data sources across channels, plus new preview generation and inbox features for better team collaboration with Dosu.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOOpen Source Labeling Best Practices
Best practices for labeling issues and pull requests in open source projects.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOHow Dosu Used LangSmith to Achieve a 30% Accuracy Improvement with No Prompt Engineering
There are many techniques for “teaching” LLMs to improve their performance on specific tasks. The most common are:
Devin SteinFounder and CEOIterating Towards LLM Reliability with Evaluation Driven Development
How to improve LLM reliability through evaluation-driven development practices.
Devin SteinFounder and CEOReliable Data Orchestration for AI Applications
How to build reliable data orchestration systems for AI applications.
Devin SteinFounder and CEO