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Dev tools · April 27, 2026

Gnosis, a knowledge base for what the code can't tell you

For the past few years, I've been frustrated at how we document our products. The code can tell you what you ended up doing, maybe why you ended up doing it (if your team is disciplined about comments/documents), but it can't tell you why you didn't do what you didn't do. Time and time again, I've seen teams try to change something to a better way, only to realize why it was done the "worse" way in the first place. Documenting decisions not taken is just really hard, ADRs help but doing it for everything is just too noisy and time-consuming. What's more, most of the decisions just…

Gnosis, a knowledge base for what the code can't tell you launched on April 27, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,677 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

A knowledge base for what the code can't tell you. - skorokithakis/gnosis

Your AI agents start from zero every session. gnosis gives them knowledge. Add two lines to your AGENTS.md and every agent session searches existing memory before implementing, records decisions as it goes, and builds on what previous sessions learned. Decisions, rejected alternatives, constraints, and intent accumulate in a searchable knowledge base that lives in your repo and ships with your code. To enable this for every agent that touches your repo (Claude Code, Cursor, opencode, Aider) add two lines to your AGENTS.md: At the start of any task, run `gn help plan` and follow its instructions. After finishing a task, run `gn help review`. Under the hood, entries are stored as JSONL in a…from github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

For the past few years, I've been frustrated at how we document our products. The code can tell you what you ended up doing, maybe why you ended up doing it (if your team is disciplined about comments/documents), but it can't tell you why you didn't do what you didn't do. Time and time again, I've seen teams try…

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