Castra – Strip orchestration rights from your LLMs
I got tired of AI agents forgetting what they were doing the moment their context window filled. The current industry solution is to write massively bloated agent harnesses full of defensive spaghetti just to stop models from drifting. The problem is treating chat history as project state. A conversation is not a ledger. Castra is a compiled Go binary that strips orchestration rights from the LLM. State lives in an encrypted, local SQLite database (castra.db). The LLM is just a stateless executor — it reads the DB, executes a highly constrained task, and the result is written back subject to…
Castra – Strip orchestration rights from your LLMs launched on April 1, 2026 with 8 votes, #1,409 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.
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I got tired of AI agents forgetting what they were doing the moment their context window filled. The current industry solution is to write massively bloated agent harnesses full of defensive spaghetti just to stop models from drifting. The problem is treating chat history as project state. A conversation is not a…
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