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Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase

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albert_etoday at 10:22 AM

what visualization library is used -- looks cool -- maybe we could adapt it to other use cases that can benefit from a graph visualization

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fxwintoday at 9:46 AM

Tried exploring a small project i built with CC, but i don't see anything in the tree/terrain view (The edits/reads/writes do show up in the timeline). The project itself doesn't exist on my drive anymore, is that a requirement?

freakynittoday at 10:17 AM

This is freakin cool.. worked in first go.

Thanks OP.

thunfischtoasttoday at 9:25 AM

Haven't tried it yet, but I think we need something in that direction. The terminal "Read file: xyz" mentions are not really followable. It would be nice to easily see where the LLM is taking info from.

nokeyatoday at 10:01 AM

First thought after reading “3D map of your codebase” was that now we will be able to code in Johnny Mnemonic style :D

cududatoday at 8:27 AM

This is really cool! I’m becoming convinced the optimal UI to engage with agents, long term is going to be something spatial. No idea shape that even takes, though I really feel what you’ve made might be Xerox PARC days in terms of metaphor maturity, but there’s some real new seeds of “obvious in retrospect” ideas here. Thanks for conceiving of and building this!

Treegardentoday at 9:48 AM

I tested it, history feature is per agent session, a cumulative history of all my agents would be nice.

khalictoday at 9:17 AM

I know I sound childish, but I'm very excited to see our UIs catching up to sci-fi movies. Very cool work, I'll check it out today

bakwan44today at 9:30 AM

That's great but im not sure what the use cases are. Did you have something in mind when building this to help the conception process ? I dont feel like i need to know what the agent did, never opened the session json. But there could be gold in there perhaps.

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pshctoday at 9:25 AM

Very glad to see this, I've been dreaming about spatial representations for code for a long time.

rcarmotoday at 8:22 AM

Very nice, but needs pi.dev / rcarmo/piclaw support :)

altmanaltmantoday at 9:33 AM

This reminds me of that community epsiode where they get the VR system and the dean has to walk through a maze, climb up several things so that they can go to a filing cabinet and then retrive a file. Yes, its cool to see and watch but it seems to be adding more friction than reducing it. Like who is going to spend that much time watching what their agents did when there are far quicker and efficient ways of scanning through changes and organizing code with better ergonomics?

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soupspacestoday at 9:04 AM

Sort of like gource?

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daneel_wtoday at 9:24 AM

Completely unrelated, but the name and the visual similarities triggered a memory for me: https://amiga.abime.net/games/view/mind-walker#screenshots

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andaitoday at 7:51 AM

Nice. Ask your slopservant to make a video, please.

alentodorovtoday at 9:37 AM

amazing!

felixlu2026today at 9:48 AM

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