LlamaPReview Context Intelligence Research

📖 Introduction

The "Context Instability" Problem

The primary bottleneck in AI-assisted software engineering isn't the intelligence of the LLM—it's the instability of the context retrieval.

When we ask an AI to review a PR, we are essentially asking it to find a needle in a haystack. Current industry standards rely on Probabilistic Retrieval (Vector Search / Keyword Search). This works for chat, but fails for code engineering where strict dependency logic is required.

This repository documents our research journey through Strategy A and Strategy B, and explains why we ultimately moved towards the Code Mesh Architecture.

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🏗️ The Probabilistic Approaches (This Repo)

This codebase contains the implementations of two common RAG patterns we evaluated:

Strategy A: Search-based RAG (The Baseline)

Located in strategies/search_rag/

• Mechanism: Regex + GitHub Search API.
• Verdict: Fast but low recall. It misses implicit dependencies (e.g., aliased imports or dynamic dispatch).

Strategy B: Agentic RAG (The Explorer)

Located in strategies/agentic_rag/

• Mechanism: ReAct Agents exploring the file tree.
• Verdict: High precision but prohibitive cost/latency. O(N) complexity makes it unscalable for large monoliths.

Note: These implementations are provided as research artifacts to demonstrate the limitations of non-deterministic retrieval.

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🔮 The Future: The Code Mesh Paradigm

Our research concluded that you cannot solve a structural problem with a probabilistic tool.

To achieve 100% context consistency, we are shifting our focus to Strategy C: The Code Mesh.

What is Code Mesh?

Code Mesh is not just a tool; it is a deterministic infrastructure layer for AI coding agents.

• From Text to Graph: Instead of treating code as flat text files, Code Mesh parses the repository into a semantic graph (Nodes: Definitions, Edges: References/Calls).
• Deterministic Navigation: It replaces "Searching" with "Traversing". When an LLM needs to know "Who calls this function?", it doesn't guess—it simply follows the edge.
• O(1) Efficiency: Context retrieval becomes a direct lookup operation, independent of the repository size.

The architectural specification and implementation of Code Mesh will be detailed in our upcoming technical series.

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👤 Author

Jet Xu Architect of LlamaPReview & Code Mesh

This research is part of the broader mission to build the Deterministic Context Layer for AI.

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Disclaimer: This code is provided for research and educational purposes.