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Give your team a single, shared cloud workspace. Knowledge isn't confined to one person — anything a teammate writes is immediately available to everyone else and to their AI assistants. Edit a note together in real time, hand work off between humans and agents, and build one connected knowledge base instead of scattered copies. Same pricing - start with one user and add more as needed.

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Basic Memory

Your AI never forgets again.

Pick up right where you left off — in Claude, Codex, Cursor, ChatGPT, or anything that speaks MCP. Your knowledge lives as Markdown files that both you and your AI can read, write, and search.

• Local-first. Plain text on your disk. Forever.
• Two-way. AI and humans write to the same files; sync keeps them in step.
• A real knowledge graph. Observations and wikilinks compound into context.
• Semantic search. Find notes by meaning, not just keywords, with optional cross-encoder reranking for higher-quality vector and hybrid results.
• MCP-native. Works with every major AI client and IDE.
• Progressive tool discovery. Every tool is tagged with behavior hints (read-only, destructive, idempotent) so agents pick the right tool on demand — no wasted context trying things to see what they do.
• Cloud, optional. Sync across devices when you want — never required.

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Pick the path that fits you. Both run the same product on the same Markdown.

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• Mobile, web, desktop
• Cross-device sync built in
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2 minutes. Install, configure your AI client, run.

• Free forever (AGPL-3.0)
• All data on your disk
• Air-gapped friendly
• Requires Python via uv

uv tool install basic-memory --prerelease=allow

--prerelease=allow is required: Basic Memory 0.23 depends on a FastMCP 4 pre-release, and uv only accepts pre-releases of transitive dependencies when told to — without the flag it silently installs an older release. The same flag goes on every uvx / uv tool upgrade command below.

For Postgres deployments that store semantic vectors in Milvus, install the first-party optional extra instead:

uv tool install "basic-memory[milvus]" --prerelease=allow

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