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After a year of work, we have released Basic Memory v1.0. Lots of changes, both in the local Open Source version and the hosted cloud service.
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One of the tricks I learned from a mentor is to ask "What problem are we trying to solve here?..." when things go off the rails. Works with AI and IRL.
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Recommended read, and basically a map of what we’ve been building. Basic Memory is agent memory as plain Markdown you own, and last week we shipped the agents that maintain it.
A few things we’d add 👇
Memory is what allows Claude to learn from experience. In a new Engineering Blog post, we share how “dreaming” helps Claude organize what it’s learned, correct its mistakes, and find what it needs more easily the next time. anthropic.com/research/compo…
Then a contradiction-check agent flags facts that disagree, for you to review as a diff, with full version history and one-click undo.
Drift stops being a silent failure you hope a background pass catches. It’s dated, visible, and correctable. That’s the real win.
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We wrote up how our agents show their work, including one catching an agent being fed sketchy instructions:
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If I do say so myself, I think our agents are pretty cool. They are really simple, just do things, and of course, they are just notes. You can even have your assistant manage them via Basic Memory Cloud MCP tools.
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Tigris has been an excellent partner for Basic Memory. Always great to work with.
We started Tigris to build the storage layer we wished existed, and our customers trusted us with their hardest workloads. Today we announced Dropbox plans to acquire Tigris. Everything our customers have today stays. And we finally get to build this at the scale it deserves.
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Try using Basic Memory as your shared knowledge base for you and your AI agents.
every startup uses some combination of slack, linear, granola, github, google calendar, a crm, etc
agents move across these more since they interact through MCP. the lines between each of these integrations is blurring. for example, you want to associate a bug in linear with a user who reported it in your crm. or you want meeting notes in granola to end up as a set of to-dos in slack.
this data shouldn't live in different products, but in a shared space where agents can move across without friction. ideally, the agent then builds triggers on its own to alert itself when important things change, and then surface stuff back to the team.
imo these shouldn't live as independent workflows and saas integrations
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I really feel personally disappointed with how the AI marketing message has been co-opted by "BigTech" to disempower people.
I started working on Basic Memory to try and explore ways for people to use AI to enhance our capabilities and understanding. I wish people talked about that instead.
AI is a tool. People choose how to use it, for good or bad, just like anything else.
I published this in March and think it’s even more true today: the most visible leaders in tech are poorly positioned to reset tech’s reputation beyond our industry. This is a *huge* opportunity for emerging talent without all that baggage. I can’t wait to see who rises to the occasion (and would love to help).
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Here's a video about our Basic Memory Agents. We took a different approach to managed agents.
Agents are just notes in your knowledge base with `type: agent`.
You can define when and how they run.
Agents can run automatically or via your harness with MCP.
All changes are versioned and reviewable. See a diff of changes and accept or rollback.
Agents use DeepSeek v4.1 so they are very inexpensive to run.
You can see detailed usage and control costs.
This is our answer to "dreaming" for AI memory. You control how your memory curates itself, and it just happens. No magic, no surprises.
basicmemory.com/blog/context…
Some context about getting to our 1.0 release.
Basic Memory Cloud is 1 year old. (Holy smokes!)
BM is leaving beta. (1.0 baby!!)
We're introducing usage-based pricing. (No change for
most of you, and a real path for heavy users.)
We're introducing Memory Agents. (Knowledge base management made easy!)
Paul is finally full-time at Basic Memory. (Somehow he is even busier.)
