Show HN: ArchDocs – Shared context and verification for engineers and AI agents
Hi HN, My name is Aylon and I'm building ArchDocs. I started building ArchDocs in late 2024 as an architecture diagramming tool with reusable references and objects (still exists today and is usable). As I've been using AI to code more and more, one of the things I've run into is that my agent doesn't have enough context around past decisions or findings that could affect an implementation, causing some nasty side-effects like redundant investigations, incorrect assumptions, repeating previously
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2026-11-03 12:00:07.772Z
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Source account: Hi HN, My name is Aylon and I'm building ArchDocs. I started building ArchDocs in late 2024 as an architecture diagramming tool with reusable references and objects (still exists today and is usable). As I've been using AI to code more and more, one of the things I've run into is that my agent doesn't have enough context around past decisions or findings that could affect an implementation, causing some nasty side-effects like redundant investigations, incorrect assumptions, repeating previously
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Source votes: 2 votes (Nov 3, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication); previous same-scope observation: 2 (Nov 3, 2026 UTC). These observations do not establish demand growth. Recent records to compare: “Show HN: A Modern Agentic LaTeX Editor” (Hacker News, Nov 5, 2026); “Show HN: Northmeadow – encrypted shared memory for local AI agents and people” (Hacker News, Nov 5, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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