Braingent

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About Braingent

What Braingent is, what it isn't, and where it's going.

Braingent is a Markdown-first engineering memory system for software engineers who work with AI agents. It’s open source, MIT-licensed, and designed to outlive any single AI tool you happen to use this year.

What it is

  • A working agreement between you and your AI agents about how engineering memory should be stored, searched, and updated.
  • A Markdown knowledge base with structured frontmatter, organized by record kind.
  • A small CLI (braingent) and an MCP server that make the agreement faster to live with.
  • A starter pack that bootstraps a new memory repo in minutes.

What it isn’t

  • Not a hosted SaaS. Your memory lives in your repo. No accounts, no dashboards behind a login.
  • Not a Git replacement. Braingent runs on top of Git. History, diffs, sync, review — Git already does that.
  • Not a project manager. Live tasks are optional. Linear, Jira, GitHub Issues stay where they are.
  • Not a chat archive. Records are the durable signal. Full transcripts don’t belong on disk.
  • Not vendor-bound. Markdown reads in any editor, in any agent, in any future tool.
  • Not a hosted index. The filesystem is the index. Optional local search and dashboards stay local to your machine.

Built by

JJ Adonis — engineer who got tired of explaining the same architecture to a fresh chat window. Braingent is the system he wished existed.

License

MIT. Use it, fork it, ship it. github.com/thedoublejay/braingent-manifesto.

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