Field notes from the team building Quelvio. How retrieval actually works, what we've learned shipping context to thousands of agents, and where institutional memory is heading.
Completions, smart hints, progress indicators, update-check, and $EDITOR multiline. Why a CLI when Quelvio already speaks MCP — and what authority-scored, lifecycle-aware retrieval looks like at a shell prompt.
What the connector setup actually does in the background — and why most companies are surprised by the coverage map.
Model Context Protocol gives agents a way to retrieve. It doesn't give them a context layer. We explain the gap.
How we detect when a Notion page silently replaces a Confluence one — and which signal wins.
Patterns we see across the customer corpora Quelvio indexes — how engineering knowledge loses authority over 18 months, and what restores it.
Every employee only sees results from documents they already had access to. Here's the mechanics behind enforcing it at the vector level.
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