Show HN: Markdown is 40× more token-efficient with SQLite

Category: ai-ml

Tags: sqlite, mcp, ai-agents, event-sourcing, knowledge-graph

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 6, Utility: 5)

Native is an open-source agent-native workspace that stores documents, tasks, and messages in a single SQLite database with an event-sourced, typed graph, exposed to AI agents via MCP and SQL-like queries. It claims 40x token efficiency over Markdown vaults for agent context retrieval, though the headline benchmark is vendor-published and the full product is not yet open-sourced.

Target audience: backend devs, AI engineers, devops

Repository: https://www.withnative.ai/research-and-posts/markdown-context-benchmark · Rust · NOASSERTION · 70 stars

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