Cursor Memories alternatives

Project-scoped memories in Cursor, created either by a background 'sidecar' model watching chats or by the agent via tool calls, and managed as auto-generated rules in settings. Traction: First-party feature of one of the most widely used AI IDEs. Full Cursor Memories record →

  1. 1 OpenAI Codex (cloud agent) Coding-agent memory

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

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

  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 has MCP

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 108k released 2026-10-21 Apache-2.0 Compare with Cursor Memories →

  3. 3 Devin (Cognition) Coding-agent memory

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

    OSS ? Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Cursor Memories →

  4. 4 agentmemory (rohitg00) Coding-agent memory

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

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 30k released 2026-10-21 Apache-2.0 Compare with Cursor Memories →

  5. 5 Beads (Steve Yegge) Coding-agent memory

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

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ✓ ★ 28k released 2026-10-22 MIT Compare with Cursor Memories →

  6. 6 Microsoft Foundry Agent Service Memory Platform-provider memory

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

    OSS — Self-host ? Managed ? MCP ✓ proprietary Compare with Cursor Memories →

  7. 7 Memanto (Moorcheh) Dedicated memory layers

    same storage (proprietary) · same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (fact)

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ? MCP ? ★ 2.3k released 2026-10-21 MIT Compare with Cursor Memories →

  8. 8 GitHub Copilot Memory (agentic memory) Coding-agent memory

    also in Coding-agent memory · same storage (proprietary) · same memory unit (fact)

    OSS — Self-host ? Managed ? MCP ? proprietary Compare with Cursor Memories →

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