Semble
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 7, 2025first mention
Sep 11, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I think the whole value proposition of semble is that you don't have to do that initial read at all”
“Cool project. I built a custome IDE and coding agent harness and will integrate this into it.”
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“This is a neat project that I've been following.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Hey, we do a couple of things specifically to prevent supply-chain attacks.”
“it's deliberately designed as a local, non-intrusive alternative to other solutions”
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep 8 mentions
- RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree 1 mention
- Tangled – We need a federation of forges 1 mention
- A Social Filesystem 1 mention
- Semble – A social knowledge network for researchers built on ATproto 1 mention
Also written as semble. Data: semble.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“How does lumen compare to semble?”
“semble vs pgr”
“definitely planning to try out semble”
“I think the whole value proposition of semble is that you don't have to do that initial read at all”
“Would be nice to see the actual % token/time saving across end-to-end coding sessions”
“Cool project. I built a custome IDE and coding agent harness and will integrate this into it.”
“Clearly a win for Semble for context efficiency, but note that the non-Semble version finished about twice as fast”
“I’ve gathered a few here! (On an atproto social bookmarking site :)”
“all of these apps work this way”
“This is a neat project that I've been following.”