igormcsouza/tether

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General-purpose LLM-Native micro-harness for small language models

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Stars: 3
Forks: 1
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 64
Avg merge: 52m
Merged PRs (30d): 166

Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Nov 4, 2026
Latest indexed: Oct 21, 2026
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tether diff says no file changes recorded after sed -i or python writes
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

igormcsouza/tether#280 · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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tether replay: table columns run together, and replay edits the caller's checkout
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 49/100

igormcsouza/tether#279 · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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run --worktree commits __pycache__/*.pyc (and other untracked build files)
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

igormcsouza/tether#278 · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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security(harness): headless worker imports the workspace's own tether/ package (runs workspace code outside the sandbox)
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

igormcsouza/tether#273 · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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`[BEFORE WRITING]` note makes qwen3.5:9b re-read the test file instead of answering
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 47/100

igormcsouza/tether#272 · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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bug(store): a headless worker that dies before RUNNING leaves the session PENDING forever; its stderr is lost
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 75/100

igormcsouza/tether#271 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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quirk: normalize `sed -n 'a,bp file'` (file name inside the quotes)
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 67/100

igormcsouza/tether#270 · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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bug(cli): `tether wait` gives up after 120 s while the session is still running, and `--help` does not say so
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100

igormcsouza/tether#269 · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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bug(providers): a command provider that times out is not retried; one slow call ends the session FAILED
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

igormcsouza/tether#268 · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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bug(edit): `edit write` with a SEARCH/REPLACE block in stdin overwrites the whole file with the block
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

igormcsouza/tether#267 · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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experiment: render repeated commands as markers in history (Feedback That Backfires, DeLoop)
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

igormcsouza/tether#219 · Opened Nov 4, 2026

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bench: compare tether against little-coder on Polyglot-Python (qwen3.5:9b, 16k)
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

igormcsouza/tether#218 · Opened Nov 4, 2026

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experiment: hard write guard (refuse whole-file overwrite) as in little-coder
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

igormcsouza/tether#217 · Opened Nov 4, 2026

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Automatic fold window K: fold oldest-first only as needed, adapt to re-reads
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

igormcsouza/tether#205 · Opened Nov 2, 2026

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known limit: tier 4 of the Coding Ladder (cases left unsaid) stops every local model tested
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

igormcsouza/tether#200 · Opened Oct 29, 2026

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North star: Polyglot-Python 74% pass rate on qwen3.5:9b (by v0.4.0)
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

igormcsouza/tether#173 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 26, 2026

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feat(skills): roles via Skill frontmatter (context_tokens, fold_after, max_steps) + shipped swe skill
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

igormcsouza/tether#172 · Opened Oct 26, 2026

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Measure the hard context budget on real models (bench: --context-tokens small vs default)
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

igormcsouza/tether#137 · Opened Oct 23, 2026

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Sandbox: take it from ~6/10 to 10/10 (kernel-first, fewer false positives, safe recovery)
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

igormcsouza/tether#124 · Opened Oct 23, 2026

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Benchmark Tether on Harness-Bench (prepare and run a real evaluation)
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

igormcsouza/tether#123 · Opened Oct 23, 2026

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Harness blocks delegating real dev work: no git/gh/node in sandbox, high token cost
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

igormcsouza/tether#59 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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Observation folding makes small models write placeholders like [URL obtido em obs_2]
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

igormcsouza/tether#27 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 18, 2026

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feat(rag): Hybrid BM25 + Semantic Vector Search in SQLite via Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF)
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

igormcsouza/tether#11 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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feat(remote): Authenticated SSE Control Plane & Optimistic Concurrency Steering (tether serve)
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

igormcsouza/tether#10 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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feat(sandbox): Fine-Grained Per-Command Permission Policies & Human Approval Gates
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

igormcsouza/tether#9 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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feat(mcp): Zero-Schema-Tax MCP Client Bridge & Hierarchical JIT --help Discovery
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

igormcsouza/tether#8 · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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