Tablestakes FAQs

Question 1

What kind of table editing operations can LLMs perform with Tablestakes?

Accepted Answer

LLMs can perform a range of surgical editing operations, including updating individual cells, inserting or deleting rows and columns, renaming columns, and even replacing entire tables. All write operations are protected by optimistic concurrency using version hashes.

Question 2

Does Tablestakes preserve original formatting and attributes when editing tables?

Accepted Answer

Yes, a core feature of Tablestakes is its ability to meticulously preserve original HTML attributes (like 'width') and inline formatting during the write-back process, ensuring edited tables remain compatible with their source platforms like GitBook.

Question 3

What problem does Tablestakes solve for LLMs?

Accepted Answer

Tablestakes solves the problem of LLMs struggling to parse and edit complex, collapsed HTML tables from platforms like GitBook or Notion. It converts these messy tables into a clean, readable pipe format for LLM interaction and accurately writes back edits while preserving original HTML structure.

Question 4

How does Tablestakes improve LLM token efficiency?

Accepted Answer

By converting verbose HTML markup into a compact pipe table format and enabling surgical, minimal updates, Tablestakes can achieve significant token savings – up to 91% for discovery and up to 73% for cell edits – dramatically reducing costs and improving LLM performance.

Question 5

Is Tablestakes limited to GitBook tables only?

Accepted Answer

While GitBook compatibility is a primary motivation, Tablestakes is designed to work with any Markdown document containing HTML tables. This includes tables from CMS exports, Notion dumps, wiki migrations, or custom hand-written HTML in Markdown files.

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