A local memory layer that plugs into Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Cline, Continue, Zed, and Windsurf via MCP. Your agent remembers symbol definitions, caller graphs, and project conventions across sessions. Sub-millisecond recall. $0 per query.
You open Claude Code on Monday. It re-discovers the class hierarchy you explained on Friday. You open Cursor. It re-reads the same 40 files. You open Aider. It re-runs the repo map. Multiply that by every branch, every restart, every context reset.
Meanwhile you're paying $200/mo for Cursor Ultra, or $200/mo for Claude Max, and the tokens going to re-orientation are tokens you're not spending on actual work.
CLAUDE.md and Cursor Memories help for preferences. They don't help when the agent needs to know "does UserRepository have a find_by_email method?" — that's a structural question, and prose can't answer it deterministically.
One brain, every agent. Switch tools without losing context — the memory lives on your disk, not inside the editor.
curl -fsSL https://argosbrain.com/install.sh | sh cd ~/my-project argosbrain ingest .
Add this to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop example):
{
"mcpServers": {
"argosbrain": {
"command": "argosbrain-mcp",
"args": ["--project", "/Users/you/my-project"]
}
}
}
Restart your agent. It now has recall, search, symbol_exists, resolve_member, list_symbols, naming_convention, and introspect — and it uses them before writing code, because they're faster and cheaper than re-reading files.
Rust, Python, TypeScript / JavaScript, Go, Java, Kotlin, Swift, C++, Ruby, SQL, Objective-C, and Shopify Liquid. Plus template languages (Jinja2, ERB) for the web stacks. Each language is backed either by a first-class language server (SCIP / LSP) or a vendored tree-sitter grammar we maintain ourselves.
See the benchmarks for per-language recall numbers against LongMemCode. Every number is reproducible on your laptop.
Ingestion, storage, retrieval — all on your machine. No cloud round-trip. No embedding API call. No telemetry on the code path. The engine is commercial software, but it runs entirely locally: nothing about your code goes anywhere we can see.
If you turn ArgosBrain off, your agent falls back to whatever it did before. No lock-in. The solo tier is free forever; teams pay for support and priority roadmap weight, not for the engine.
Install ArgosBrain → · vs Cursor memories · vs Claude Code memory · vs Mem0 · Independent verdict