Knowns
Persistent project memory for AI coding assistants
Knowns launched on May 6, 2026 with 3 votes, #3,449 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.
What it does
Knowns gives AI coding assistants structured access to your project's tasks, docs, specs, and memory. Open source. Local-first.
Knowns keeps your project's tasks, docs, decisions, and patterns linked and searchable. Open source. Local-first. Project memory for teams and AI.
Initialize the repository once. Then tasks, docs, decisions, and agent context stay connected—in the terminal or the same local WebUI. Knowns does more than print output. Every useful action leaves structured context that people and agents can inspect later. Repository structure, guidance, and the local index are prepared together. Priority, relationships, and source context travel with the task. Results include citations and lifecycle state instead of an ungrounded guess. Broken references and stale guidance surface before work starts. Find sources, assemble a cited context pack, and expand relationships only when you need them. Launch Knowns from anywhere, switch between projects, and…from knowns.sh
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