# Under the hood

Infinite context. Self-verifying code. Agents that search 10,000 paths before giving you an answer. Here's what makes Dropstone different.

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## Infinite Context

### Unlimited Tokens with Generous Rate Limits

Dropstone optimizes token consumption at the infrastructure level, reducing per-request usage by over 58%. This efficiency enables unlimited tokens with generous rate limits across supported models.

#### Efficient by Design

2.5K tokens per request versus 6K on standard tools, a 58% reduction at the infrastructure level

#### Generous Rate Limits

Higher throughput with no throttling on day-to-day usage across all supported models

#### Daily Workflows

Write, debug, and iterate all day without worrying about hitting token caps

#### Large-Scale Projects

Handle 100K+ line codebases with the same token efficiency as a single-file edit

### Token Usage Per Request

| Standard Tools | Dropstone |
| --------------- | --------- |
| ~6,000 tokens   | ~2,500 tokens |

Token savings per request: 58% more efficient

### PIP Mode

#### Minimal Control for Complex Workflows

PIP Mode gives you a compact floating interface to orchestrate MCPs, coordinate multi-agent workflows, and control the sequence of execution across your entire stack — without leaving your current window.

#### MCP Control

Trigger and monitor MCP servers directly from the floating overlay

#### Agent Orchestration

Coordinate multiple AI agents running in parallel from a single pane

#### Flow Sequencing

Define and control the order of operations across complex workflows

#### Minimal Interface

Full orchestration power in a compact overlay that stays out of your way

### Collaborative AI Sessions Across Your Team

Share entire AI conversations with your team while preserving full context, file references, and decision history. Everyone works from the same shared understanding.

#### Shared Context

Recipients see the full conversation history, file changes, and AI reasoning

#### Live Collaboration

Multiple team members can join and interact within the same AI session

#### Secure by Default

Granular permissions with heuristic scrubbing for sensitive content

#### Persistent History

Shared sessions are saved and searchable, building a knowledge base over time

### Dropstone Memory

#### Context That Persists Across Every Session

Dropstone builds a persistent knowledge graph of your codebase patterns, architecture decisions, and team preferences. Context is automatically retrieved in every future conversation without re-explaining.

- **Auto-Capture**: Learns from every interaction without manual setup or configuration
- **Cross-Session**: Memories persist and improve across all conversations automatically
- **Team-Shared**: Share context and learned patterns across your entire engineering team
- **Always Relevant**: Retrieves only the context that matters for the current task

### Cognitive Architecture

## The world's first AI IDE that builds itself

Powered by cognitive long-term continual learning that persists across every session. Your AI doesn't just respond — it remembers, adapts, and evolves, creating an effectively unlimited context window that grows smarter with every interaction.

#### Continual Learning

Neural pathways strengthen with every codebase interaction

#### Unlimited Context

No token limits — memory grows infinitely across sessions

#### Self-Evolving

Autonomously refines its understanding of your architecture

## The world's first AI-native MCP platform.

### Figma MCP

#### Your AI design partner, directly on canvas.

Dropstone connects to Figma through MCP and operates as a collaborative AI designer that works directly on your canvas. Select any layer, describe your intent in natural language, and watch edits apply in real time. The first production-grade AI designer published at global scale.

### Horizon Mode

## AI that doesn't guess. It searches.

Most AI tools predict the next word in a line. Dropstone explores thousands of possible solutions at once, finds the best one, and throws away the rest.

### How it works under the hood

#### AI that checks its own work

Other tools hand you code and hope it works. Dropstone verifies every output before you see it, and catches its own hallucinations in real-time.

#### Multi-agent architecture

Other tools give you a single AI assistant. Dropstone gives you a swarm of specialized agents that work in parallel, learn from each other's mistakes, and finish complex tasks in a fraction of the time.

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