Ijfw

Your AI tools are brilliant, forgetful, undisciplined, and alone. One install fixes all four.

IJFW is one shared brain, and a full operating layer, for every AI coding tool you use. Install it once and your tools remember across sessions, plan before they build, check each other's work for hallucinations, pull in the right specialist for the job, and quietly cut your token bill. All on your machine. All yours.

npm install -g @ijfw/install && ijfw-install

You told Claude Code once, on Monday. Cursor knew on Wednesday. That's one of the engines.

The receipts: in an open, honest re-run of the field, memory beat no-memory by +55 points on LongMemEval. On recalling when something happened, Mem0, Letta, and Zep scored 0.000. IJFW scored 0.676. See the benchmark, method, and where we lose →

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Everything it does

One install, one shared brain, and a full engine room around it. Skim the headlines and the bullets. Click into any engine to go deeper.

Memory that evolves with you

Your AI stops forgetting. Decisions, context, and the why behind them survive across sessions and across tools, and IJFW keeps the store clean on its own.

• Your decisions, project state, and observations persist as plain markdown under .ijfw/memory/, so context survives across sessions instead of evaporating.
• Recall ranks by keyword match with recency decay, so "what did we decide last" returns the latest call, not a random old one.
• A dream cycle promotes proven patterns, supersedes contradictions, and prunes stale notes, so your memory grows sharper over time instead of becoming a junk drawer.
• Bi-temporal facts carry validity windows, letting you ask what was true at a past point, not just what is true now.
• Every connected agent reads the same memory, so a decision recorded in one tool is recallable from another.
• Patterns only graduate to durable knowledge after three references across two sessions, so recall reflects settled facts, not transient remarks.

Read more: how memory works →

Build discipline that holds

The spine that stops AI coding from falling apart mid-session. It plans before it builds and gates every phase behind your sign-off.

• A brainstorm, plan, execute, verify, ship spine makes the plan exist and get signed off before a single line of code, so scope drift dies early.
• Quick mode runs five moves in a few minutes; Deep mode runs six modules for launches, so the ceremony matches the stakes.
• Phase gates are user-facing checklists with no auto-advance, so EXECUTE never rolls into VERIFY behind your back.
• The SHAPE step proposes three approaches, so you start from options to react to instead of a blank page.
• CONVERGE emits an explicit Wave Table marking each wave parallel or sequential, so agent dispatch is deterministic, not re-inferred from prose.
• Every artifact is summarized in chat before it hits disk, so you approve the brief, plan, and waves before they are written.

Read more: the workflow engine →

A second and third AI catch the hallucinations

One model will confidently ship a bug. So on demand, three models from three different labs red-team the same work in parallel, before it reaches your repo.