Corvusmem: a memory for your AI coding agent that never leaves your machine

Description and use

Corvusmem provides deterministic, offline memory for AI coding agents, preserving context across sessions without cloud dependencies.

Problem

AI coding agents forget context between sessions, requiring repeated explanations of stack, preferences, and decisions.

Outcome

Corvusmem provides deterministic, offline, zero-dependency memory that persists across sessions, supports per-author facts, and offers a visual cortex for introspection.

Workflow

• Install Corvusmem with npx corvusmem install --claude
• The PostToolUse hook captures facts from each exchange
• Facts are stored in a lightweight local graph file
• During subsequent sessions, queries activate matching nodes and surface related facts
• The memory can be visualized with npx corvusmem --cortex

Evidence

Your AI coding agent is brilliant for about one session. Then it forgets your stack, your decisions, who you are, and the three things you told it yesterday.

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Corvusmem is a deterministic, offline, zero-dependency memory for AI coding agents.

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The whole memory is a plain file you own. No server, no cloud, no API key, no telemetry, no vector database.

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On LoCoMo it's competitive (~25% overall) and trades blows with embedding-based memories — it even wins on knowing when to say "I don't know" (abstention) instead of hallucinating.

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Corvusmem is free for personal and noncommercial use under PolyForm Noncommercial.

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