2026-07-23 — Masih Moafi I build Elpis , a terminal coding agent forked from Codex-rs, focused on one thing: keeping your context window empty. Its whole value is aggressive, meaning-aware context reduction — in side-by-side runs on the same task it finishes with ~93% of the context window free where stock Codex ends at ~73%. I build it with AI agents. This week I audited their work. What I found changed how I treat every AI-generated commit, and I have the diffs to prove all of i...