Id-agent
Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents
Details
- External ID
- 48191852
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Id-agent
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 42
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8263327948303716
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai agent infrastructure and tooling
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- uuid alternative for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Creating a compact, token-efficient identifier library (e.g., using Base62/Base85 encoding or short prefixes optimized for BPE tokenizers) is a straightforward utility that can easily be vibe-coded in a few hours.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: petnames crate, Claude Code, IDEs with built-in ID handling
Concerns raised: Unclear use case and problem being solved, Lack of empirical measurements showing hallucination reduction, Human-readable IDs may not actually reduce hallucinations better than random, Extra keystrokes for humans entering IDs, Should be handled by environment/framework, not LLM
Feature requests: Comparative testing against model size and recency, Measurements of actual hallucination rates vs UUID approaches, Pre/post LLM processing as alternative, Validation of ID consistency in input-to-output matching
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 2123 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #317 of 2124 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 202 days after the earliest competitor.
- Clawvisor — The Authorization Layer for AI Agents · yc · 2026-05-07 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- cave-agents · github · 2026-09-24 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Inkbox: Give your AI agents email, phone, iMessage, and an internet address · yc · 2026-07-08 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Adam · hn · 2026-05-06 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Prism: Lightning fast inference for coding agents · yc · 2026-09-24 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Flocker.md · hn · 2026-08-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- ZeroID · hn · 2026-04-07 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Rubric AI · yc · 2026-03-11 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.66
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