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relore - repository memory for coding agents

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Tarek Ziadé
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Relore is an Apache-2.0-licensed repository-memory tool from Hugging Face designed to help coding agents recover relevant decisions, discussions, and code context scattered across GitHub issues, pull requests, reviews, and repository history. Its development was motivated by a Transformers bug in which multiple contributors had already proposed fixes, but an agent risked duplicating their work because the related PRs and rationale were not linked from the original issue. Relore indexes repository discussions while distinguishing authoritative maintainer decisions from contributor claims and excluding automated content by default, then combines that history with a local working clone through a single HTTP API. Commands such as `inflight` identify active fixes, `thread` exposes discussion context, `search` finds trusted historical decisions, and `why` connects a current line of code through its commit and pull-request reviews to explain its origin. The project also added code-navigation capabilities using tree-sitter after agents needed structured ways to inspect definitions and repeated patterns in the current codebase. Hugging Face uses relore internally across projects including Transformers, where its Serge agent uses it for issue investigation and patch review.

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