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engrim
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timgordontg / engrim

engrim

The Universal Cross-Model Episodic Memory Standard. Local-first, project-scoped SQLite engine for Google Antigravity, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, and OpenCode. Zero cloud lock-in.

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What it is

The Universal Cross-Model Episodic Memory Standard. Local-first, project-scoped SQLite engine for Google Antigravity, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, and OpenCode. Zero cloud lock-in.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-09-07 04:49:36 UTC to 2026-09-07 14:27:48 UTC.

012026-09-07 04:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-07 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 7, 04:002026-09-07 05:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-07 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-07 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-07 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-07 07:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-07 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-07 08:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-07 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-07 09:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-07 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 7, 09:002026-09-07 10:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-07 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-07 11:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-07 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-07 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-07 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-07 13:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-07 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-07 14:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-07 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 7, 14:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Sep 7, 04:002026-09-07 04:00:00 UTC2026-09-07 05:00:00 UTC110
Sep 7, 05:002026-09-07 05:00:00 UTC2026-09-07 06:00:00 UTC000
Sep 7, 06:002026-09-07 06:00:00 UTC2026-09-07 07:00:00 UTC000
Sep 7, 07:002026-09-07 07:00:00 UTC2026-09-07 08:00:00 UTC000
Sep 7, 08:002026-09-07 08:00:00 UTC2026-09-07 09:00:00 UTC000
Sep 7, 09:002026-09-07 09:00:00 UTC2026-09-07 10:00:00 UTC000
Sep 7, 10:002026-09-07 10:00:00 UTC2026-09-07 11:00:00 UTC000
Sep 7, 11:002026-09-07 11:00:00 UTC2026-09-07 12:00:00 UTC000
Sep 7, 12:002026-09-07 12:00:00 UTC2026-09-07 13:00:00 UTC000
Sep 7, 13:002026-09-07 13:00:00 UTC2026-09-07 14:00:00 UTC000
Sep 7, 14:002026-09-07 14:00:00 UTC2026-09-07 15:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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esafak·Sep 7, 2026
Tim, could you expand on this part? > Empirical Proof (The 105-Session Case Study) Is this something you can benchmark against competitors? Lots of these memory plugins are cropping up and nobody knows how they compare. It seems the meat of your work is in https://github.com/timgordontg/engrim/blob/main/src/engrim/m... There is no lifecycle management or conflict resolution yet, and the models do the work of deciding when to use it.
In Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs

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