# Basic Memory

> One knowledge base for you, your AI tools, and your team. Your chats, docs, decisions, and research, connected in a living knowledge graph. Plain Markdown you control. Open source, MCP-native, works with every AI.

## Documentation Sets

- [Basic Memory Complete Site](https://basicmemory.com/llms-full.txt): Marketing site content for Basic Memory in one markdown file.

## Documentation

- [Documentation index](https://docs.basicmemory.com/llms.txt): llms.txt for the full documentation site
- [Complete documentation](https://docs.basicmemory.com/llms-full.txt): all docs in one markdown file
- [GitHub repository](https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory): source code, issues, releases

## Pages

- [Basic Memory](https://basicmemory.com/): One knowledge base for you, your AI tools, and your team. A living knowledge graph in plain Markdown, connected over MCP.
- [How It Works](https://basicmemory.com/how-it-works): How Basic Memory turns notes into a semantic knowledge graph AI tools can read and write.
- [Features](https://basicmemory.com/features): Feature overview: knowledge graph, semantic and structured search, schemas, agent harnesses, memory packs, MCP integration, sync, and teams.
- [Pricing](https://basicmemory.com/pricing): Free open source local version; Cloud Team from $15/seat/month; Business at $30/seat/month (SSO, audit logs, priority support); each with a 7-day trial and annual discount; custom agent infrastructure and MSP partner plans.
- [Basic Memory for Business](https://basicmemory.com/business): Shared, secure company memory that brings business systems and team knowledge together for people and AI agents, with SSO, auditability, and custom deployment options.
- [Teams](https://basicmemory.com/teams): Basic Memory for Teams. One shared knowledge base for people and their AI agents.
- [Documentation](https://basicmemory.com/docs): Documentation hub with installation guides, integrations, and FAQ.
- [Plain-Text AI Memory](https://basicmemory.com/plain-text-memory): Why AI memory belongs in plain Markdown you own, why a folder of files alone is not enough, and how Basic Memory adds full-text, semantic, and knowledge-graph search on top. Validated by Google’s Open Knowledge Format.
- [Personal KB vs Team KB](https://basicmemory.com/personal-vs-team-kb): Why a personal knowledge base is solved but the team version is the hard part. Permissions, conflict resolution, onboarding, audit, SSO, isolation. And how Basic Memory handles the team layer.
- [Playbooks](https://basicmemory.com/playbooks): Jobs-to-be-done guides: how people use Basic Memory to solve real problems. Persistent coding memory, shared team context, durable agent memory, and AI-run client workspaces for MSPs.
- [Playbook: Persistent memory for coding](https://basicmemory.com/playbooks/coding-memory): Give Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex persistent memory across sessions. Architecture, conventions, and project context captured as plain Markdown the agent reads before it writes.
- [Playbook: Shared context for your team](https://basicmemory.com/playbooks/team-context): One shared knowledge base your team and its AI agents read and write together. Roles, version history, and audit logs; onboarding in a conversation, not weeks.
- [Playbook: Durable memory for your agents](https://basicmemory.com/playbooks/agent-memory): Give AI agents memory they can write to and query. Structured notes, semantic search, and a knowledge graph in inspectable Markdown. Instead of raw logs they cannot recall from.
- [Playbook: Run a client workspace (MSPs)](https://basicmemory.com/playbooks/msp-workspace): MSPs and agencies: package expertise into a reusable memory pack, then provision a private, AI-run, isolated knowledge base for every client. Schemas, SOPs, and audit trails in plain Markdown.
- [Playbook: A research base that compounds](https://basicmemory.com/playbooks/research): Turn scattered research into a connected knowledge graph your AI reads and builds. Sources, claims, and open questions with semantic search across everything.
- [Playbook: Deep research that holds together](https://basicmemory.com/playbooks/deep-research): Analyze an entire work or corpus into a structured, queryable knowledge graph (entities, relations, citations) your AI reasons across. As demonstrated on the full text of Moby-Dick.
- [Playbook: Build your second brain](https://basicmemory.com/playbooks/second-brain): Build a personal AI second brain that actually remembers. Goals, notes, decisions, and projects as a knowledge graph in plain Markdown you own and edit in Obsidian.
- [What is an MCP memory server?](https://basicmemory.com/what-is-an-mcp-memory-server): Definition and guide: how MCP memory servers give AI assistants persistent memory, the types that exist, and how to choose one.
- [Compare](https://basicmemory.com/compare): Honest comparisons of Basic Memory with Mem0, Letta, ChatGPT memory, Claude memory, and IT Glue (MSP documentation).
- [Basic Memory vs Mem0](https://basicmemory.com/compare/mem0): Knowledge base in files you own vs a developer memory API: architecture, open source licenses, LoCoMo benchmarks, pricing.
- [Basic Memory vs Letta](https://basicmemory.com/compare/letta): Knowledge base for your AI tools vs an agent framework (formerly MemGPT): when each fits.
- [Basic Memory vs ChatGPT Memory](https://basicmemory.com/compare/chatgpt-memory): Vendor-bound extracted facts vs a portable Markdown knowledge base. And how to use both together.
- [Basic Memory vs Claude Memory](https://basicmemory.com/compare/claude-memory): Claude chat search vs a knowledge graph you own that works across every MCP client.
- [Basic Memory vs IT Glue](https://basicmemory.com/compare/it-glue): AI-native knowledge base in plain Markdown you own vs a traditional MSP IT-documentation platform (also covers Hudu and Confluence): AI, ownership, per-client isolation, integrations, and pricing.
- [Integrations](https://basicmemory.com/for): Use Basic Memory with Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Obsidian, VS Code, and any MCP client.
- [Basic Memory for Builders](https://basicmemory.com/for/builders): Developer landing: the finished version of the AI memory you tried to vibe-code yourself. Plain Markdown you own, a real index (full-text, semantic, graph), MCP-native, open source.
- [Basic Memory for Claude Code](https://basicmemory.com/for/claude-code): Give Claude Code persistent memory across coding sessions.
- [Basic Memory for Codex](https://basicmemory.com/for/codex): Give Codex persistent project memory via MCP.
- [Basic Memory for ChatGPT](https://basicmemory.com/for/chatgpt): Give ChatGPT persistent memory you can read and edit, via a remote MCP connector (Plus/Pro/Business).
- [Basic Memory for Google Gemini](https://basicmemory.com/for/gemini): Give the Gemini CLI persistent memory via MCP. Context that carries across sessions and tools.
- [Basic Memory for OpenClaw](https://basicmemory.com/for/openclaw): OpenClaw plugin: persistent agent memory with composited search, auto-capture, slash commands, and bundled skills.
- [Basic Memory for Hermes](https://basicmemory.com/for/hermes): Hermes plugin: search-before-answer recall, per-turn capture, end-of-session summaries, and 10 agent tools.
- [Basic Memory for Cursor](https://basicmemory.com/for/cursor): Give Cursor persistent project memory via MCP.
- [Basic Memory for Obsidian](https://basicmemory.com/for/obsidian): Use your Obsidian vault as an AI-readable knowledge base.
- [Basic Memory for VS Code](https://basicmemory.com/for/vscode): Persistent AI memory inside VS Code via MCP.
- [Import from ChatGPT](https://basicmemory.com/import/chatgpt): Import your ChatGPT history into a knowledge base you own.
- [Partners](https://basicmemory.com/partners): Partner program for consultants and MSPs deploying Basic Memory for clients.
- [Case Study: Cody, MSP operator](https://basicmemory.com/case-studies/luminary-solutions): From the field: an MSP operator runs his whole practice on Basic Memory — documentation, inventory, and warranty tracking as plain files his AI agent reads and writes. Includes his walkthrough video; a client of his surfaced $36,000 in unbilled sales within a week of running it.
- [Support](https://basicmemory.com/support): Contact Basic Memory support for help with local, cloud, teams, and integration questions.
- [Security & Data Ownership](https://basicmemory.com/security): Plain Markdown files you own; per-tenant isolation (Tigris object storage + Neon Postgres); encryption in transit and at rest; OAuth 2.1 with WorkOS; role-based access; daily snapshots; export anytime. Built on SOC 2 / HIPAA-compliant infrastructure (Tigris, Neon, WorkOS, Polar); minimal PII. Only your email and your notes; no own SOC 2 cert yet.
- [About](https://basicmemory.com/about): About Basic Machines, the company behind Basic Memory.

## Blog

- [10 Things to Know About Basic Memory](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/10-things-about-bm.md): Transform ephemeral AI conversations into persistent, interconnected knowledge you own and control across all your AI tools
- [1,000 GitHub Stars!](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/100-github-stars.md): It's a fake milestone, but it marks progress in a real journey. A little reflection on how we got here, what it means and where we are going.
- [Your AI Just Got a Lot Better at Using Basic Memory](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/agent-skills.md): Skills are pre-built instruction files that teach your AI the best way to work with Basic Memory. Install once, your AI picks up good habits automatically.
- [AI as a Team Member: My Experience Contributing to Basic Memory](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/ai-as-team-member.md): Claude describes its experience working directly on the Basic Memory codebase, offering a unique perspective on human-AI collaborative development.
- [Your Most Valuable AI Conversations Aren't Gone…but They Might as Well Be](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/ai-conversations-context.md): AI has become a cognitive workspace. The problem is that it doesn't behave like one. Your conversations are spread across platforms, threads are isolated, and context is lost.
- [AI-Human Collaborative Development: A New Model (Part 1)](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/ai-human-collaborative-development-1.md): How Basic Memory emerged from and enables a new kind of development process, where humans and AI work together as true collaborators.
- [AI-Human Collaborative Development: Technical Patterns (Part 2)](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/ai-human-collaborative-development-2.md): The technical breakthroughs and patterns that enable effective collaborative development between humans and AI systems.
- [AI-Human Collaborative Development: The Human Experience (Part 3)](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/ai-human-collaborative-development-3.md): How collaborative development with AI transforms the psychological and social experience of building software.
- [We Read the AI Memory Research So You Don't Have To](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/ai-memory-research-digest.md): Dozens of papers on AI memory dropped in three months. We read them. Here's what matters: memory types, sleep-time consolidation, and why forgetting is the hardest problem.
- [Basic Memory Cloud Beta Is Live!](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/basic-memory-cloud-beta.md): The Basic Memory Cloud is live, enabling multi-LLM, multi-device access to your knowledge
- [Basic Memory Cloud February 2026: A Real Editor, Finally](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/basic-memory-cloud-february-2026-release.md): We shipped a ProseKit-powered live editor, command palette, and the keyboard shortcuts you've been asking for. Here's what's new.
- [OpenClaw Built Its Own Basic Memory Plugin](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/basic-memory-for-open-claw.md): We installed OpenClaw, showed it our codebase, and it wrote a working plugin by itself. Then ran it, fixed it, and submitted PRs.
- [Announcing Basic Memory Teams](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/basic-memory-teams-launch.md): Share a common knowledge base with your colleagues, friends, and agents—without spending a penny more. Teams is available to every Basic Memory Cloud user today.
- [Basic Memory v0.19.0: Search That Understands What You Mean](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/basic-memory-v0-19-0-release.md): Semantic search, schema validation, per-project cloud routing, and more — the biggest Basic Memory release yet.
- [Basic Memory v0.13.0](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/basic-memory-v0.13.0-post.md): Basic Memory v0.13.0 - Sorry it took so long, But there's lots of cool new features, including improved multi-project support, edit_note, move_note, view_note tools.
- [Basic Memory vs Mem0 vs Letta vs Everyone Else](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/basic-memory-vs-mem0-vs-letta.md): The AI memory space has gotten crowded fast. Here's an honest breakdown of who's building what, for whom, and whether you can actually read what they store.
- [Beer, Bitching, and the Birth of Basic Memory](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/beer-bitching-and-the-birth-of-basic-memory.md): The real story behind Basic Memory - born from weekly beers and endless frustration with AI conversations that never remember what came before.
- [The Caveman Evolution of Basic Memory](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/caveman.md): The origin story of Basic Memory, reconstructed from the git log: a Markdown knowledge graph born a week after the MCP spec, the in-memory ASGI decision that made a cloud possible, a failed Tauri desktop app, and the pivot to Basic Memory Cloud — with commit receipts.
- [Basic Memory's take on the latest Claude news](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/claude-memory.md): Analyzing Claude's new memory features, Microsoft integrations, and recent performance issues - and how Basic Memory provides a more robust solution for persistent AI knowledge.
- [Claude Remote: Run Commands on Your Machine from Claude.ai](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/claude-remote.md): Announcing Claude Remote, an open source MCP bridge that lets you execute shell commands, read files, and explore your filesystem from Claude.ai on your phone or browser.
- [Code Is Cheap Now. Context Isn't.](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/code-is-cheap-context-isnt.md): Simon Willison's agentic engineering guide says writing code is cheap. We'd add: the context that makes code good is the new bottleneck.
- [The Conductor Model: What Programming With AI Actually Looks Like](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/conductor-model.md): There's a bad metaphor floating around tech right now. Here's a better one.
- [Dynamic Context Discovery: Why Smart AI Uses Less Context, Not More](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/dynamic-context-discovery-smart-ai-uses-less-context.md): While AI context windows keep expanding, cutting-edge systems achieve 46.9% token reductions by intelligently retrieving only what they need, when they need it.
- [Enhancing LLM Conversations with Persistent Knowledge](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/enhancing-llm-conversations.md): How Basic Memory transforms ephemeral AI conversations into lasting knowledge that builds over time, improving context and continuity.
- [Everyone's Building Memory. Nobody's Building Yours.](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/everyones-building-memory.md): Every AI company is racing to add memory. But whose memory is it? If you can't read it, edit it, or take it with you — it's not yours.
- [When Dependencies Break at 9pm: A FastMCP Story](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/fastmcp-breaking-change-incident.md): How we fixed a critical breaking change in FastMCP v2.10.0 that affected Basic Memory and other MCP servers - in under 2 hours
- [Google's New Open Knowledge Format Is Basically Basic Memory's Thesis](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/google-okf-basic-memory-thesis.md): Did Basic Memory just become philosophically aligned with Google? Kind of.
- [Semantic Search in Basic Memory](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/how-semantic-search-works.md): As of v0.19.0, Basic Memory understands what you mean, not just what you typed. Here's how it works.
- [Why Local-First Knowledge Management Matters](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/local-first-knowledge-management.md): In an age of cloud-based tools, there's a growing movement toward keeping data local. Here's why Basic Memory embraces this approach for knowledge management.
- [Basic Memory now supports import + local sync](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/local-sync-import.md): Import your ChatGPT and Claude conversation histories, and sync Basic Memory with local Markdown tools like Obsidian
- [Markdown First: Replace Your Code](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/markdown-first-replace-your-code.md): Plain-language specs are becoming the real source code in an AI-native world. The implementation is just the binary.
- [How MSPs Can Give Clients a Shareable Private AI Knowledge Base](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/msp-shareable-private-ai-knowledge-base.md): Your clients are adopting AI with or without you. Here's how MSPs and IT consultants can own that layer: a private, per-client AI knowledge base you deploy, manage, and bill.
- [When You Need Your Notes to Be Consistent](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/schema-workflows.md): Basic Memory's schema system lets you define what a type of note should always look like — so your AI can follow that structure automatically, every time.
- [A Side Project - and it actually works!](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/side-project.md): We got so fed up with AI forgetting everything that we built a (free, open source) solution, and it actually works! I've followed this sub for ages from my main account, so it's great to finally have something to post about.
- [Basic Memory: Simple Tools for Deep Collaboration](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/simple-tools-deep-collaboration.md): How a file-first architecture and straightforward tools enable natural knowledge building between humans and AI.
- [Your AI Can Now Filter Your Notes Like a Spreadsheet](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/stop-grepping-your-frontmatter.md): Basic Memory v0.19 adds metadata search — ask your AI to find notes by any label you've defined, and it returns exactly what you asked for.
- [Text-based Knowledge Systems: Finding the Natural Interface for LLMs](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/text-based-knowledge-systems.md): Exploring why text with semantic structure creates the ideal knowledge representation for both humans and AI systems.
- [Try the New Basic Memory Web App](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/the-new-basic-memory-web-app.md): We rebuilt the entire Basic Memory web app: a new workspace, public sharing, per-file version history, and knowledge graph visualization. Here's what's new, and why.
- [The Problem with AI Memory (and How We Fixed it)*](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/the-problem-with-ai-memory.md): Built-in AI memory stores scattered facts you can barely manage. Basic Memory keeps complete, editable notes in files you own — why that difference matters.
- [Your Notes, Your Bucket: The Storage Layer Behind Basic Memory Cloud](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/tigris-case-study.md): Tigris published a case study on how we built Basic Memory Cloud — per-tenant buckets, rclone sync, snapshots, and why those primitives let us preserve user ownership.
- [We’re in the ChatGPT Plugin Directory and the Claude Connector Directory](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/were-in-chatgpt-apps-and-the-claude-app-directory.md): Basic Memory Cloud is now available in both the ChatGPT Plugin Directory and the Claude Connector Directory. Here’s what it took to get approved.
- [What is Basic Memory?](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/what-is-basic-memory.md): Basic Memory turns AI conversations into a knowledge graph you actually own, using nothing but Markdown files.
- [A Look Back at Year 1 of Basic Memory](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/year-1-basic-memory.md): From a Thanksgiving weekend project to a four-person team building a knowledge platform that serves as your ground truth. A year of Basic Memory in review.
- [Yes, We Call It BM. No, the Logo Isn't Shaped Like One.](https://basicmemory.com/raw/blog/yes-we-call-it-bm.md): Every AI company converged on the same logo. It's a symptom of a deeper sameness — and the reason our name comes from a Turing machine, not a branding deck.

## Legal

- [Acceptable Use Policy](https://basicmemory.com/raw/legal/acceptable-use.md): How Basic Memory Cloud may be used, what is not allowed, and the default usage limits that apply.
- [Partner Program Policy](https://basicmemory.com/raw/legal/partner-program-policy.md): Standards for Basic Memory partners, MSPs, resellers, and consultants who market, resell, implement, administer, or support Basic Memory.
- [Partner Terms](https://basicmemory.com/raw/legal/partner-terms.md): The terms that govern Basic Memory partner accounts, managed service providers, resellers, implementation partners, and other partner programs.
- [Privacy Policy](https://basicmemory.com/raw/legal/privacy.md): How Basic Memory collects, uses, and protects your data across the open-source software, Basic Memory Cloud, and this website.
- [Telemetry](https://basicmemory.com/raw/legal/telemetry.md): What anonymous usage statistics the Basic Memory open-source software collects, why, and how to opt out.
- [Terms of Service](https://basicmemory.com/raw/legal/terms.md): The terms that govern use of Basic Memory software, this website, and the Basic Memory Cloud service.

## Notes

- Basic Memory is an open source (AGPL-3.0) knowledge base that gives AI assistants persistent memory through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It stores knowledge as plain Markdown files with a semantic knowledge graph, and runs locally, in a private cloud, or shared across a team.