Show HN: Open Chronicle – Local Screen Memory for Claude Code and Codex CLI

Category: devtools

Tags: ai-assistant, screen-capture, mcp-server, local-ocr, context-memory

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 7, Documentation: 9, Utility: 6)

Open Chronicle is a macOS menubar app that gives AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex CLI photographic memory of your screen activity through local screen capture, on-device OCR, and LLM summarization. It's interesting because it solves the context-loss problem when switching between apps and enables AI agents to answer ambiguous questions about recent work with specific, grounded context.

Target audience: backend devs, frontend devs, full-stack devs

Repository: https://github.com/Screenata/open-chronicle · Swift · MIT · 7 stars

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