Signetai
Local-first agent memory and secrets layer that gives Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode one shared context on your own machine.
If you hop between Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode and keep re-explaining your codebase to each one, Signet is the memory layer worth installing — the same context and secrets follow you across harnesses and stay on your disk. Recall-with-receipts is the feature that matters: you can open the source line behind a claim before you trust it, which cloud memory services rarely let you do. Just budget for real ops — a daemon to keep running, a workspace to back up.
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- Developers running several agent harnesses who want one context to follow them across all of them
- Privacy-conscious teams that need agent memory and credentials to stay on their own hardware
- Self-hosters who want source-backed recall they can verify line by line instead of trusting a black box
- Solo devs and small teams that want encrypted credential storage agents can use without seeing plaintext
- Developers running a single agent harness who gain nothing from cross-harness portability
- Teams that want agent memory working with no install, daemon, or maintenance overhead
- Non-technical users uncomfortable with CLI, PowerShell, or managing a self-hosted workspace
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Skip Signet if you only ever run one agent harness and don't need memory to travel — the daemon and workspace maintenance buy you portability you'll never use.
You supply the model and provider for dreaming, so your existing API spend grows as Signet turns idle sessions into memory.
Signet is free and open source, so the comparison is against paid cloud memory services that bundle hosting and convenience into a subscription, and against the cost of rolling your own SQLite-and-embeddings memory layer. The real budget line isn't a license — it's the provider tokens dreaming consumes and the time you spend running a daemon.
In short
Signetai — Local-first agent memory and secrets layer that gives Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode one shared context on your own machine. Best for Developers running several agent harnesses who want one context to follow them across all of them, Privacy-conscious teams that need agent memory and credentials to stay on their own hardware, Self-hosters who want source-backed recall they can verify line by line instead of trusting a black box. Free to use.
What's new in Signetai
Checked 3 days agoAcross the latest 4 updates: 4 news mentions.
Self-hosted memory for Hermes + OpenClaw
Signet published a guide on running it as a portable local context layer for Hermes Agent and OpenClaw.
Bring Both Kinds of Memory
Essay on combining wiki-style and database-style memory in one system. 8 min read.
The Obsidian of AI Memory Systems
Essay arguing users should own the shape of their agent memory, framed against Obsidian. 5 min read.
The Source and the Synthesis
Essay on how Signet separates source material from synthesized memory. 6 min read.
What people actually say about Signetai — is it worth it?
We ran a structured research pass across product reviews, community discussions, and post-purchase forum threads to surface the patterns vendors won't publish themselves. Below: the recurring strengths, the hidden costs people mention most, and the cohort that consistently regrets adopting this tool.
3 mentions across 2 sources (Hacker News, GitHub) · researched Jul 3, 2026.
Average across the 2 sources that answered — each source counts once, not each post.
- +Local-first: data never leaves your machine.
- +Portable memory and identity across multiple AI agents.
- +Automatic session distillation into structured knowledge graph.
- +Encrypted secrets management keeps credentials secure.
- +Free and open-source (Apache 2.0).
- −Tiny community and minimal support available.
- −Early-stage project with only 5 open issues but unknown bugs.
- −Limited agent framework integrations (Claude Code, OpenCode, etc.)
- −Setup requires running a daemon and CLI—not beginner-friendly.
- −Documentation is sparse and lacks tutorials.
- • Self-hosting hardware and maintenance
- • Time investment in setup and integration
Viability Score
How well maintained and how widely used is Signetai? Built from what the vendor actually publishes (docs, changelog, tutorials, integrations, pricing), whether the site is live, and how much real users discuss it. How we calculate this
Last calculated: October 2026
How we score →Key Features
- Local-first memory and secrets layer that sits under your agent harness
- One-command install via curl (macOS/Linux) or PowerShell (Windows)
- One static binary plus a local daemon; workspace at ~/.agents/
- Dreaming pass turns idle or closed session transcripts into entities and claims
- Receipt-backed recall: every claim links to the transcript, note, or file it cites
- Inspectable local dashboard for graph traversal, recall, and repair
- Encrypted secrets on disk with the master key held in the OS keyring
- Sources connected read-only: Obsidian, Notion, GitHub, Discord, web pages, files, transcripts
- Local on-device retrieval and ranking with no LLM called at search time
- Unified memory store for curated knowledge and structured data (May 2026)
- Source material kept distinct from synthesized output so context stays auditable
- Workspace split into authored, evidence, data, secrets, and runtime/cache drawers
- Authored Markdown and YAML files (AGENTS.md, SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, USER.md, MEMORY.md, agent.yaml) kept in their own
- Per-harness connectors via session hooks, runtime plugins, runtime adapters, MCP, and skills
- Snapshots verified before they count; imports retain original bytes
About Signetai
Signet is a self-hosted memory layer that sits underneath whichever AI coding agent harness you already run — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, and a growing list of others. One command installs a static binary and a local daemon; your context lives in a single workspace folder at ~/.agents/, structured like a five-drawer cabinet so you always know what to back up and what Signet can rebuild. There's no cloud account and no subscription. The point is that a new session shouldn't start cold. Hooks capture every session as raw evidence — transcripts kept exactly as received — and a "Dreaming" pass, which runs while you're away or when a session closes, turns that evidence into entities and claims. Every claim keeps a thread back up to the transcript or file it came from, so recall comes with receipts rather than a black box. A May 2026 update unified curated knowledge and structured data into one memory store instead of a wiki-plus-database split, and a companion May post separated raw source material from synthesized output so you can tell a source from an interpretation. Retrieval and ranking run on-device with no LLM called at search time; the vendor reports 97.6% LongMemEval answer accuracy under a rules profile, tracked locally and against a canary score set with methodology published. Secrets live in the same workspace: credentials are encrypted on disk with the master key held in your OS keyring, not in the folder, so agents can use them without reading plaintext. Sources like Obsidian, Notion, GitHub, Discord, web pages, files, and agent transcripts connect read-only, and every answer cites the exact page, path, or line. Against cloud memory services, Signet trades convenience for ownership and a verifiable audit trail — and it assumes you're willing to run a daemon.
Behind the Verdict
Pick Signet when your problem is portability across harnesses, not memory within one. If you run three or four agent shells and each session starts cold, the value is immediate: one workspace under ~/.agents/, one SQLite database as the authority, and the same context showing up in whichever tool you open next. The provenance design is the part I'd weigh most. Every claim carries a thread back to the transcript, note, or file it cites, and the retrieval layer runs on-device with no model at search time. That means a wrong answer is usually traceable to a wrong source rather than mysterious. For anyone who has tried to audit a black-box memory service, that's the difference. We'd also reach for it on the secrets side. Encrypting credentials on disk with the master key in the OS keyring — not in the workspace folder — lets agents use keys without ever holding plaintext. That's a sensible model for solo devs and small teams that don't want a secrets manager bolted on separately. Where it bites: you own the operational surface. There's a daemon to keep running, a workspace to back up, and setup that centers on CLI, MCP, and connector configuration. None of that is unusual for self-hosters, but it's friction a cloud service simply doesn't have. Pass when you run a single harness. The whole pitch is one context across every agent you use; if you only ever open Codex, you're paying maintenance for a benefit you won't collect. Also pass if you want memory with zero install, or if you need Signet to supply a model — it doesn't; you bring the harness and the model. The closest alternatives are cloud memory services that memory-enable agents from a hosted backend. They win on setup and on nothing-else-to-run. Signet wins on ownership, cross-harness portability, and an audit
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Real-world workflow fit
Concrete scenarios for the personas Signetai actually fits — and what changes day-one when you adopt it.
Install Signet with curl, run signet setup to create the workspace and dashboard, connect both harnesses' hooks, then have a session in Claude Code about the auth refactor.
Outcome: When the session closes, dreaming distills the decisions into memory. Opening OpenCode the next morning, recall surfaces the same decisions with a link back to the transcript line, so you don't re-explain the refactor.
Set up an encrypted secrets drawer so agents can read a database credential, then add read-only Obsidian and GitHub sources.
Outcome: The agent uses the credential without plaintext ever appearing in the conversation, and answers about your notes cite the exact page and path they came from.
Configure two agents with isolated memory scopes and one shared scope, then run a collaborative workflow across Codex and Hermes Agent.
Outcome: Each agent keeps its own working notes while the shared scope holds the project-wide decisions, so coordination doesn't require pasting context between sessions.
Use Cases
- Run Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode against one shared memory so switching harnesses doesn't reset your context.
- Distill idle session transcripts into durable decisions and preferences without manually writing notes.
- Store API keys and credentials encrypted so agents can use them without plaintext appearing in chat.
- Build multi-agent swarms with isolated, shared, or group-scoped memory.
- Connect an Obsidian vault or Notion workspace read-only and get answers that cite the exact page or line.
- Self-host agent memory and secrets with no cloud account or subscription.
- Pin critical facts with signet remember --critical so they survive across sessions.
- Keep a portable, back-up-able context folder that follows you when your tools change.
Limitations
- Signet is local-first and self-hosted: you run a daemon on your own machine and keep a SQLite workspace at ~/.agents/ that you are responsible for backing up and moving.
- Installation is one command via curl on macOS/Linux or PowerShell on Windows x64, then setup and configuration run through the CLI, local dashboard, hooks, MCP, and harness connectors.
- There is no hosted/SaaS version of the service — Signet sits under your existing agent harnesses (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and others) rather than providing its own model or chat interface.
as of 2026-10-07
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For each published Signetai tier: who it actually fits, and what it adds vs. the previous tier. Cross-reference the cost calculator above for projected annual outlay.
Open source
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Ideal for
Developers and teams who want to self-host agent memory and secrets with no license fee and are prepared to run a daemon and back up a local workspace.
What this tier adds
Starting tier: the full local memory and secrets stack at no cost, with your own provider tokens and infrastructure time as the actual expense.
Where the pricing makes sense
The company stage and team size where Signetai's pricing actually pencils out — and where peers do it cheaper.
Signet is free and open source, so the comparison is against paid cloud memory services that bundle hosting and convenience into a subscription, and against the cost of rolling your own SQLite-and-embeddings memory layer. The real budget line isn't a license — it's the provider tokens dreaming consumes and the time you spend running a daemon.
Setup time & first value
How long it actually takes to get something useful out of Signetai — broken out by persona, not the marketing-page minute.
One command (curl or PowerShell) plus one guided signet setup pass gets most developers to a working remember/recall loop in a few minutes; the interactive setup walks provider connection, harness choice, and a first-memory test. Connecting multiple harnesses, importing an Obsidian vault or transcript exports, and configuring identity presets add time on top. Backing up ~/.agents/signet is worth
Switching to or from Signetai
How to bring data in from common predecessors and how to get it back out — written for the switcher, not the buyer.
- →From ChatGPT or other built-in agent memory: connect your harness, export transcripts, and drop them into the files/ import inbox so Signet captures them as evidence.
- →From a cloud memory service: run signet setup, point the workspace at your existing notes and repos as read-only sources, and let dreaming rebuild claims locally.
- →From ad-hoc AGENTS.md files: Signet reads your existing AGENTS.md, SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, USER.md, and MEMORY.md as authored files in the workspace's own Git repository.
- ↗To another harness: your memory is already portable — the same Signet workspace follows you to any of the eleven documented connectors.
- ↗To a rolling-your-own setup: data/signet.db is a plain SQLite database and transcripts are canonical JSONL, so your durable state is readable without Signet.
- ↗To a clean machine: back up ~/.agents/signet and restore it, since runtime and cache drawers are derived and rebuildable.
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Resources & Guides
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Tutorials & Learning
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