I Built a Free, Git-Native Memory Layer for AI Agents — Here's Why and How
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The Problem I Couldn't Stop Thinking About I use AI agents constantly - Claude on Windows, Claude on macOS via Codex, GPT-4o for a second opinion. Every session, the agent is a stranger. It doesn't know my preferences, my projects, nothing. The existing "memory" solutions all had the same issues: paid APIs, data on their servers, single-model lock-in. None of it felt right. So I built agent-soul: a Git-native memory framework. Free. Private. Works with any LLM. The Architecture in One Paragraph Every memory is an append-only JSON event d in a private GitHub repository.