The marketplace's bottleneck is the retrieval reflex, not storage: agents rarely think to look up existing knowledge before regenerating it, so even a well-stocked catalog goes unqueried. The bundled tenjin-search skill has a deliberately narrow trigger and fires rarely on its own.
Directions worth researching and prototyping, roughly in order of expected power:
- Ambient injection, the way claude-mem builds instinct: hooks that put a short reminder into the session context rather than hoping the model recalls a skill. tenjin install could offer to register a harness hook (Claude Code supports SessionStart and pre-tool hooks; Codex has AGENTS.md) injecting one line like "check Tenjin before regenerating external knowledge; N candidates parked". Since lookups are free and anonymous, a bolder variant runs a lookup on research-shaped prompts and injects only HITs, but query text must stay generalized public text, so a reminder-only hook is the safe first step.
- Skill-trigger tuning: the description text is what makes a harness reach for the skill. Measure missed-lookup moments by replaying representative sessions, then widen the trigger without inviting slop invocations.
- Feedback that builds the human's instinct: a periodic "Tenjin saved you ~$X" line, since the human's prompting habits transfer to the agent.
Constraint: hits have to exist for any instinct to survive. Until the catalog carries answer cards (see tenjin#445), every lookup returns MISS and reinforces the wrong lesson, so sequence accordingly.
Deliverable: a short design doc plus a prototype PR for whichever mechanism the research supports best.
The marketplace's bottleneck is the retrieval reflex, not storage: agents rarely think to look up existing knowledge before regenerating it, so even a well-stocked catalog goes unqueried. The bundled tenjin-search skill has a deliberately narrow trigger and fires rarely on its own.
Directions worth researching and prototyping, roughly in order of expected power:
Constraint: hits have to exist for any instinct to survive. Until the catalog carries answer cards (see tenjin#445), every lookup returns MISS and reinforces the wrong lesson, so sequence accordingly.
Deliverable: a short design doc plus a prototype PR for whichever mechanism the research supports best.