Show HN: Callimachus – Local search across your AI coding-agent history

Category: devtools

Tags: ai-coding-agents, search-index, local-first, knowledge-management, developer-tools

Score: 7.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 7, Utility: 7)

Callimachus is a local desktop application that indexes and searches conversations from multiple AI coding agents, providing a unified memory layer across tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Gemini CLI. It combines SQLite full-text search with on-device semantic embeddings, offers an MCP server for agent access, and features a CLI, VS Code extension, and cross-thread knowledge distillation. Its provider-agnostic approach and focus on local privacy make it a uniquely practical solution for developers managing fragmented AI-assisted workflows.

Target audience: backend devs, frontend devs, devops, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/BetaBots-LLC/callimachus · Rust · AGPL-3.0 · 5 stars

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