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Elpis
Terminal environment that keeps your AI agent's context lean
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Terminal environment that keeps your AI agent's context lean
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Elpis is a terminal environment for coding agents, built on OpenAI's Codex CLI. The core problem: long agent sessions bury useful state under the history of how the agent got there. Every request pays for all of it. Elpis separates working context from durable evidence. After each turn, a meaning-aware pruner (Ace) evicts completed tool outputs, resolved dead ends, and low-signal history from the live context to disk. The next request starts lean.
The working-context vs durable-evidence split is a smart way to cut token spend. Since Elpis wraps Codex CLI, does it let users point at a custom base URL/model endpoint, or is it tied to OpenAI's API directly? Curious how Ace's pruning behaves across different upstream models.
The meaning-aware pruner is a clever move. Skipping the rerun-token tax on resolved dead ends is the kind of detail that separates a polished tool from a clever demo.