Airbyte Agents
AI
agent data layer
SHOW HN2026
How HN took it
8 positive, 27 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 39 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Idea: 5 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Congratulations and interest in the launch; Airbyte's connector expertise seen as a good fit
From 3 comments
This is such a great direction airbyte is taking and congrats to the lunch! I think you're very well-positioned for this opportunity than most people realize, given your…
nerdright on HNWe built something similar an A/B testing framework that measures Unblocked's impact on real AI coding agents. It spawns agent CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot)…
dennispi on HNSuper interesting idea! Congrats on the launch. Context is definitely something that is lacking in my experience. Im always frustrated when an agent cannot answer…
thecopy on HN
Objections
Benchmarks are self-run by the builder, so bias is a concern
From 2 comments
- The maker's post
Just want to call out a couple of nuances in our methodology. In general, we tried our best to do apples-to-apples comparisons where we could, and gave ourselves a discount where…
mtricot on HN
Skills may already solve the problem; SaaS API tollgates may block replication
From 2 comments
Doesn't Skills solve all of this? OpenClaw, Hermes and other agents have already made skill adoption mainstream? Are you guys still seeing a future where people are dumping…
Tsarp on HNMore and more SaaS companies like ServiceNow or Hubspot are creating new tollgates for agent api calls. How do you think will this impact Airbyte Agents? I guess that replicating…
ck_one on HN
Seen as just an ETL pipeline rebranded as an agent
From 1 comment
Congrats, you built an ETL pipeline and called it an agent. The industry has come full circle.
afxuh on HN
Requests
Support for direct SQL access to the Context Store
From 2 comments
The prompts you mentioned here sound like SQL. Is there any way to run actual SQL on these systems? Is "agents need to poke around endlessly" a symptom of the fact that there…
andai on HNHelpful feedback, thank you! And your instincts are spot on. As of now, we have API based search, with filter predicates and field selection in JSON. While we haven't published…
aaronsteers on HN
Parquet file download option from APIs
From 1 comment
There are a lot of APIs like this that I really wish would expose downloading a parquet file instead of trying to implement server-side filtering and reporting query features.
carefulfungi on HN
Questions
How is stale data handled when operational data changes
From 2 comments
How would you know if the agent is not querying stale data here ?
SachitRafa on HNYour observation of 47 steps is very good to show the situation, probably, this connected with schema navigation, not with data fetching. I think this is very good place to…
dubovskiyIM on HN
How encryption, confidentiality and data authorization are handled
From 2 comments
Super interesting idea! Congrats on the launch. Context is definitely something that is lacking in my experience. Im always frustrated when an agent cannot answer…
thecopy on HNWhat are the main differences to Glean? My company is evaluating Glean and I feel like Airbyte is a strong alternative (at least for some use cases). How does Airbyte handle data…
smadam9 on HN
How the Context Store selects fields and handles indexing
From 2 comments
Looks interesting! If I'm reading correctly, the indexing (Context Store) is neutral/unopinionated? How does it select fields for indexing? Have you done any testing on guided…
jessewmc on HNHi, @jessewmc. Thanks for your reply. Regarding your points: > If I'm reading correctly, the indexing (Context Store) is neutral/unopinionated? How does it select fields for…
aaronsteers on HN
Alternatives named
Glean
From 1 comment
What are the main differences to Glean? My company is evaluating Glean and I feel like Airbyte is a strong alternative (at least for some use cases). How does Airbyte handle data…
smadam9 on HN
Vendor MCP servers such as Gong, Zendesk, Linear and Salesforce
From 2 comments
- The maker's post
Just want to call out a couple of nuances in our methodology. In general, we tried our best to do apples-to-apples comparisons where we could, and gave ourselves a discount where…
mtricot on HN
Unblocked MCP server
From 1 comment
We built something similar an A/B testing framework that measures Unblocked's impact on real AI coding agents. It spawns agent CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot)…
dennispi on HN