Open-source (MIT) long-term memory server for AI coding agents by Fabio Akita. Lifecycle hooks capture sessions from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode and many other coding agents into a git-backed markdown wiki, so you can quit one agent mid-task and continue in another with a typed handoff. One self-hosted Rust binary; default features need no LLM API key and it has no telemetry.
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ai-memory is free and open source under the MIT license. You self-host the server on your own machine or infrastructure; team features such as multi-user auth and audit logs are included, not a paid tier. Optional LLM or embedding providers are billed by those providers.
Open-source Beacon alternatives
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Which Beacon alternative is listed first?
ai-memory is first in the editor-selected list of 1 Beacon alternatives. The stored order is editorial; review scores do not determine membership or position.
Are there open-source Beacon alternatives?
Yes — ai-memory are open source.