Beads (Steve Yegge) alternatives

Dolt-backed, dependency-aware graph issue tracker that acts as persistent structured memory for coding agents, replacing markdown plans; `bd remember` stores durable facts and `bd prime` re-injects them. Full Beads (Steve Yegge) record →

  1. 1 LangGraph Persistence Framework-embedded memory

    same storage (relational) · same retrieval (exact-match, injection) · same memory unit (fact) · also open source · also self-hostable · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 43k released 2026-10-16 MIT Compare with Beads (Steve Yegge) →

  2. 2 Gemini CLI memory (save_memory / GEMINI.md) Coding-agent memory

    also in Coding-agent memory · same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (fact) · also open source · also self-hostable · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 108k released 2026-10-21 Apache-2.0 Compare with Beads (Steve Yegge) →

  3. 3 OpenAI Codex (cloud agent) Coding-agent memory

    also in Coding-agent memory · same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (fact, summary) · also open source · also self-hostable · also has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 128k released 2026-10-27 Apache-2.0 (Codex CLI; cloud agent proprietary) Compare with Beads (Steve Yegge) →

  4. 4 Microsoft Copilot Memory Platform-provider memory

    same storage (relational) · same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (fact) · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Beads (Steve Yegge) →

  5. 5 Replit Agent Coding-agent memory

    also in Coding-agent memory · same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (document) · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Beads (Steve Yegge) →

  6. 6 Bolt.new (StackBlitz) Coding-agent memory ⚠ stale — no commits since 2024-12

    also in Coding-agent memory · same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (document) · also open source · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP — ★ 17k MIT Compare with Beads (Steve Yegge) →

  7. 7 Amplenote Personal AI / PKM / lifelogging memory

    same storage (relational) · same retrieval (graph-traversal) · same memory unit (document, fact) · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Beads (Steve Yegge) →

  8. 8 Lovable Coding-agent memory

    also in Coding-agent memory · same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (document) · also has MCP

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Beads (Steve Yegge) →

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