Blog
Posts on building Pearl.
Engineering decisions, product trade-offs, the occasional rant about AI-IDE conventions we disagree with. Written by the team, for the people who use the tool.
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4 min read
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The Pearl team
Three modes, not three personalities
Why Pearl Scout ships Ask, Plan, and Agent as distinct agents instead of one chat with personality knobs.
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5 min read
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The Pearl team
Bring your own model
Four providers, one picker, one sign-in. The design choices behind multi-provider chat.
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6 min read
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The Pearl team
What "inline diff" actually means
The difference between an Apply button and an inline-diff workflow — and why we ship the latter.
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4 min read
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The Pearl team
The "morning re-explanation" problem
Project memory in .pearl/memory/project.md — what goes in it, what doesn't, and why it's a plain markdown file.
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3 min read
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The Pearl team
Why we don't gate premium models behind a higher tier
The internal decision and the customer pitch — premium model access is on every paid plan.