#1 AI CodingUnknown
agentcairn — alternative #1 to ax
🐍 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Local-first agent memory: a plain-Markdown Obsidian vault is the source of truth, with a rebuildable DuckDB index for hybrid BM2...
GitHub source68Apache-2.0
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#2 AI CodingUnknown
linksee-memory — alternative #2 to ax
📇 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - Local-first cross-agent memory with a 6-layer structure, Ebbinghaus-style forgetting curve, and drift detection that catches whe...
GitHub source
#3 AI CodingUnknown
m1nd — alternative #3 to ax
⭐ 22 — Local-first MCP server that gives a CLI coding agent a neuro-symbolic code graph over the repo: impact/why/change-reasoning across a...
GitHub source
#4 AI CodingFree
Proliferate — alternative #4 to ax
⭐ 168 — Open-source local and cloud agent IDE for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and similar coding agents; parallel workspaces,...
GitHub source
#5 AI CodingUnknown
agent-breadcrumbs — alternative #5 to ax
📇 ☁️ 🏠 - Unified agent work logging and observability across ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex, and OpenClaw with config-first schemas and plug...
GitHub source
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