We have been exploring how agents can build on that coordinate system. The files and symbols earlier agents repeatedly read, edited, cited, or returned to can become landmarks for the next agent, resolved against the code as it exists now and linked back to the conversations where that understanding was formed. By preserving the causal metadata beneath that surface representation, like which operation produced each fragment and what prior state it built on, DeltaDB gives the model a way to traverse not just the current code, but its provenance, accumulated attention, and prior reasoning.
Xanadu Was Waiting for Agents · Nathan Sobo · 1 September 2026