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Agent tooling

Phren

Persistent memory for AI coding agents. Findings, tasks, and patterns stay as markdown in a git repo you own, and you can browse the same store from a terminal shell, a 3D web graph, VS Code, or an iPhone.

  • 10 MCP tools by default, 61 in full
  • 7 surfaces: shell, graph, web, VS Code, iOS
  • Claude / Copilot / Cursor / Codex
Year2026
StatusActive

Agents lose context between sessions. Phren keeps it in a git repo you own.

from the project README

Overview

AI coding agents lose everything between sessions, so the same context has to be rebuilt over and over.

Work

I built it as a TypeScript monorepo: an MCP server that exposes ten tools by default (an admin tool reaches the other fifty by name, so the schema stays small), a CLI, and hooks that capture findings and tasks into plain markdown. No database, no vendor lock-in. Findings have a lifecycle (supersede, retract, contradict) and trust that decays over time, and a fragment graph links concepts across projects. The store has seven front ends on top of the same files: a full-screen terminal shell, a braille-canvas terminal graph that lights up as agents read and write, a 3D web viewer, a VS Code extension, a SwiftUI iOS app with widgets and Siri intents, and Herdr and Omarchy plugins.

Result

It works across Claude, Copilot, Cursor, and Codex, installs as a Claude Code plugin, syncs shared stores over git, and reloads cleanly on a new machine with a single init command.

Stack

  • TypeScript
  • MCP
  • SwiftUI
  • Node.js

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