OMEGA

Cross-model memory for AI agents. Local-first. Works with Claude, GPT, Gemini, Cursor, Claw Code, and any MCP client. Your agent's brain shouldn't live on someone else's server, or be locked to one provider.

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The Problem

AI coding agents are stateless. Every new session starts from zero. The "solutions" either lock you into one model provider or send your codebase context to their cloud.

• Context loss. Agents forget every decision, preference, and architectural choice between sessions. Developers spend 10-30 minutes per session re-explaining context that was already established.
• Repeated mistakes. Without learning from past sessions, agents make the same errors over and over. They don't remember what worked, what failed, or why a particular approach was chosen.
• Cloud memory = someone else's database. Services like Mem0 require API keys and send your data to their servers. When they change pricing, get acquired, or go down, your agent's accumulated intelligence disappears.
• Vendor lock-in. Anthropic's Memory Tool only works with Claude. OpenAI's memory only works with GPT. Switch models, lose your memory.

OMEGA solves this. Memory, coordination, and learning that runs entirely on your machine. Works with every major LLM and coding agent. No cloud. No API keys. No vendor lock-in.

Quick Install

OMEGA needs Python 3.11 or newer. Check with python3 --version: macOS ships Python 3.9, which is too old. If pip answers No matching distribution found for omega-memory, that is the reason; install a newer Python first (for example brew install python@3.12, or from python.org).

Install OMEGA into its own environment. Homebrew's Python refuses a plain pip install (PEP 668), and an isolated install keeps OMEGA's dependencies away from your projects. Pick one:

# pipx
pipx install "omega-memory[server]"

# or uv
uv tool install "omega-memory[server]"

# or a virtual environment
python3.12 -m venv ~/.venvs/omega     # any Python 3.11 or newer
~/.venvs/omega/bin/pip install "omega-memory[server]"
export PATH="$HOME/.venvs/omega/bin:$PATH"

Keep the quotes around "omega-memory[server]": zsh, the default macOS shell, treats bare square brackets as a pattern and fails. The [server] extra installs the MCP server, which also runs the hook daemon; without it Claude Code gets no OMEGA tools and no hooks.

Then:

omega setup     # downloads the embedding model, registers the MCP server, installs hooks
omega doctor    # checks every step, and names the fix for anything that failed

omega setup --dry-run shows what setup would change without writing or downloading anything.

Claude Desktop

omega setup --client claude-desktop

This registers OMEGA as an MCP server in Claude Desktop's config. Restart Claude Desktop to activate.

Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Codex, Antigravity

omega setup --client cursor      # or: windsurf, cline, codex, antigravity

Codex and Antigravity get their config file written; for the others setup prints the JSON block to paste. For any other MCP client, omega setup --client venv prints the command and arguments to use. Hooks (automatic capture and surfacing) are available with Claude Code only.

Library-only install (no MCP server)

If you only need OMEGA as a Python library for scripts, CI/CD, or automation, install it into your project's environment: