Awareness Local

Give your AI agent persistent memory. One command. No account. Works offline.

Awareness Local is a local-first memory system for AI coding agents. It runs a lightweight daemon on your machine that stores memories as Markdown files, searches with hybrid FTS5 + embedding, and connects to any IDE via the MCP protocol.

npx @awareness-sdk/setup

That's it. Your AI agent now remembers everything across sessions.

What It Does

Before: Every session starts from scratch. You re-explain the codebase, re-justify decisions, watch the agent redo work.

After: Your agent says "I remember you were migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Last session you completed the schema changes and had 2 TODOs remaining..."

Session 1                          Session 2
┌─────────────────────────┐       ┌─────────────────────────┐
│ Agent: "What database?" │       │ Agent: "I remember we   │
│ You: "PostgreSQL..."    │       │ chose PostgreSQL for     │
│ Agent: "What framework?"│  →    │ JSON support. You had    │
│ You: "FastAPI..."       │       │ 2 TODOs left. Let me     │
│ (repeat every session)  │       │ continue from there."    │
└─────────────────────────┘       └─────────────────────────┘

Supported IDEs (13+)

IDE	Auto-detected	Plugin
Claude Code	✅	`awareness-memory`
Cursor	✅	via MCP
Windsurf	✅	via MCP
OpenClaw	✅	`@awareness-sdk/openclaw-memory`
Cline	✅	via MCP
GitHub Copilot	✅	via MCP
Codex CLI	✅	via MCP
Kiro	✅	via MCP
Trae	✅	via MCP
Zed	✅	via MCP
JetBrains (Junie)	✅	via MCP
Augment	✅	via MCP
AntiGravity (Jules)	✅	via MCP

How It Works

Your IDE / AI Agent
    │
    │  MCP Protocol (localhost:37800)
    ▼
┌────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Awareness Local Daemon            │
│                                    │
│  Markdown files    → Human-readable, git-friendly
│  SQLite FTS5       → Fast keyword search
│  Local embedding   → Semantic search (optional: npm i @huggingface/transformers)
│  Knowledge cards   → Auto-extracted decisions, solutions, risks
│  Web Dashboard     → http://localhost:37800/
│                                    │
│  Cloud sync (optional)             │
│  → One-click device-auth           │
│  → Bidirectional sync              │
│  → Semantic vector search          │
│  → Team collaboration              │
└────────────────────────────────────┘

Your Data

All memories stored as Markdown files in .awareness/ — human-readable, editable, git-friendly:

.awareness/
├── memories/
│   ├── 2026-03-22_decided-to-use-postgresql.md
│   ├── 2026-03-22_fixed-auth-bug.md
│   └── ...
├── knowledge/
│   ├── decisions/postgresql-over-mysql.md
│   └── solutions/auth-token-refresh.md
├── tasks/
│   └── open/implement-rate-limiting.md
└── index.db  (search index, auto-rebuilt)

Features

MCP Tools (available in your IDE)

Tool	What it does
`awareness_init`	Load session context — recent knowledge, tasks, rules
`awareness_recall`	Search memories — progressive disclosure (summary → full)
`awareness_record`	Save decisions, code changes, insights — with knowledge extraction
`awareness_lookup`	Fast lookup — tasks, knowledge cards, session history, risks
`awareness_get_agent_prompt`	Get agent-specific prompts for multi-agent setups

Progressive Disclosure (Smart Token Usage)

Instead of dumping everything into context, Awareness uses a two-phase recall:

Phase 1: awareness_recall(query, detail="summary")
  → Lightweight index (~80 tokens each): title + summary + score
  → Agent reviews and picks what's relevant

Phase 2: awareness_recall(detail="full", ids=[...])
  → Complete content for selected items only
  → No truncation, no wasted tokens

Web Dashboard

Visit http://localhost:37800/ to browse memories, knowledge cards, tasks, and manage cloud sync.

Cloud Sync (Optional)

Connect to Awareness Cloud for:

Semantic vector search (100+ languages)
Cross-device real-time sync
Team collaboration
Memory marketplace

npx @awareness-sdk/setup --cloud
# Or click "Connect to Cloud" in the dashboard

SDK & Plugin Ecosystem

Awareness Local is part of the Awareness ecosystem:

Package	For	Install
Awareness Local	Local daemon + MCP server	`npx @awareness-sdk/setup`
Python SDK	`wrap_openai()` / `wrap_anthropic()` interceptors	`pip install awareness-memory-cloud`
TypeScript SDK	`wrapOpenAI()` / `wrapAnthropic()` interceptors	`npm i @awareness-sdk/memory-cloud`
OpenClaw Plugin	Auto-recall + auto-capture	`openclaw plugins install @awareness-sdk/openclaw-memory`
Claude Code Plugin	Skills + hooks	`/plugin marketplace add edwin-hao-ai/Awareness-SDK` → `/plugin install awareness-memory@awareness`
Setup CLI	One-command setup for 13+ IDEs	`npx @awareness-sdk/setup`

Full SDK docs: awareness.market/docs

Requirements

Node.js 18+
Any MCP-compatible IDE

No Python, no Docker, no cloud account needed.

License

Apache 2.0

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