A capture-first inbox
Every session, decision, meeting, and stray idea lands in an append-only inbox as a raw event. Nothing is parsed at write time.
Cortex
A local-first second brain for AI sessions. Memory that survives compaction, follows you across projects, and stays under your control.
The shape of it
Section titled “The shape of it”A normalization pipeline
Events get processed into atomic, addressable records. Routed into a PARA layout, indexed, deduped, and given stable IDs.
An MCP surface
Five operations — capture, recall, reflect, status, supersede — exposed to your AI tooling over MCP. No bespoke integration per client.
Hooks at the boundaries
Session start injects relevant memory. Pre-compact saves an emergency gist. Stop captures the session for later normalization.
These docs cover the architecture, the operations, and the concepts behind the design. They are not a getting-started guide — they are reference material for understanding why the system is shaped the way it is.