Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal
Why CEREBRO kept it
Terminal-based research agent for deep inquiry workflows
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A deep-research agent with an enforced budget, verified quotes, and a privacy boundary for local data. Ask a question. mole decomposes it, searches, reads sources, extracts claims, checks each claim against the text it came from, looks for contradictions between them, and writes an answer with citations. Every model call is reserved against a budget before it happens and settled after, so the ceiling you set is the ceiling it hits. It runs as a single static binary on your machine, uses your own API keys, and speaks MCP so a coding agent can drive it — either by handing mole a question and col
Community take
Bloated codebase for basic functionality; budget enforcement with LLM overspend and caching interactions remains unclear.
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