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Your AI forgets everything between sessions
Context Vault gives it persistent memory that gets smarter over time. Local-first, works with every tool you already use.
$npx context-vault setup
Works with your AI tools
Windsurf
Windsurf
Windsurf
Sound familiar?
Three problems every developer knows
The blank slate
It's Monday. You open your editor. Your AI has no idea what you were working on Friday. You spend 10 minutes re-explaining your stack, your patterns, your decisions. Again.
Lost decisions
Three weeks ago you chose JWT over session cookies. You remember the decision, but not the reasoning. It's buried in a Slack thread, a PR comment, or just... gone.
Siloed tools
You told Claude Code about your database choice. Now you're in Cursor. It doesn't know. You told Windsurf your API patterns. Claude Code doesn't know. Every tool is an island.
Context Vault solves all three.
How it works
Three steps. Two minutes.
01
Set up in one command
Run context-vault setup. It detects your editor, writes the MCP config, and teaches your agent what to save.
02
Your AI saves as you work
Decisions, patterns, and context saved as plain markdown. No extra steps. Your vault learns what gets used.
03
Every session picks up where you left off
Open tomorrow or next month. The right context is already there. Share it with your team when you are ready.
Monday morning.
Your Friday auth refactor context loads automatically. You pick up mid-thought.
"Why did we choose SQLite?"
New teammate runs one search. Full decision, trade-offs, date. No Slack archaeology.
Three clients.
Each project has its own namespace. Open the session, get the right context. Nothing bleeds across.
Core capabilities
What Context Vault gives you
Built for developers who use multiple AI tools.
Persistent.
Decisions, patterns, and conventions live in your vault forever, not just for today's session.
Automatic.
Your AI retrieves the right context at session start. No prompting, no searching, no re-explaining.
Universal.
One vault. Every editor. Save in Claude Code, retrieve in Cursor. Context follows you, not the tool.
Local-first.
Plain markdown on your machine by default. Upgrade to Pro for cloud sync when you need it.
Recall tracking.
Your vault learns what's useful. See which entries get retrieved, which stay dormant, and what matters most.
Team vaults.
Share knowledge across your team. Onboarding context, architectural decisions, and project conventions in one place.
Vault-brain.
See your knowledge as a 3D neural network. Explore connections between entries and spot gaps in your context.
Agent rules.
Tell your agents what to save once. They learn your conventions and capture knowledge automatically after setup.
What Monday morning looks like
You open your editor. Context Vault already loaded what matters.
Monday 9:04am
$ cursor .
context-vault · loading session context...
✓ 3 entries retrieved
jwt-auth-decisiondecision · last session
sqlite-over-postgresdecision · 2d ago
session-handler-bugnote · last session
Ready. Picking up where you left off.
Connects to your workflow
Works with any MCP-compatible AI client. One vault, every tool.
Setup guideClaude CodeCursorWindsurf
ZedVS CodeRaycastOpen source, MIT licensed
Self-host it, audit it, extend it. No lock-in. Plain markdown on your machine by default, optional cloud sync when you need it.
View on GitHubfellanH/context-vault
feat: hybrid search with FTS5#142 · 2d ago
fix: vault path resolution on Windows#139 · 4d ago
chore: add SQLite WAL mode#136 · 1w ago
Stop starting from zero.
Two minutes to install. Every session picks up exactly where you left off.
npx context-vault setup
Free tier foreverLocal-first by defaultMIT licensed
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