01 / SMALL FACTS
Write one fact at a time.
Atomic knowledge stays easy to update, rank, and reuse.
Give your agents
a memory and a map.
Embornal keeps two things an agent forgets: the facts it learned, and the shape of the code it works in. Both stay small, stay searchable, and stay out of the way until they're needed.
/projects/embornalfacts live in a wiki path
$ embornal memory recall "what matters"
✓ 3 facts found · instantly
$ embornal code recall "where auth lives"
✓ 2 matches · instantlyMEMORY, WITHOUT THE MESS
Agents forget.
Embornal remembers.
A plain notes file grows into noise. Embornal returns only the few facts that the current task needs.
02 / SMART RECALL
Ask in your own words.
Find facts by word, meaning, or how useful they remain.
03 / ONE BINARY
Keep the setup quiet.
Memory, wiki, and model arrive together. No service required.
RECALL WHAT MATTERS
Your context,
ready on cue.
Search by exact words, by meaning, or by memory strength. Embornal brings the right fact back without flooding the prompt.
local-first · multilingual
$ embornal memory store /work/acme
"The build needs Rust 1.85."
✓ fact stored
$ embornal memory recall
"what does the build need?"
/work/acme 1.000
The build needs Rust 1.85.CODE, WITHOUT THE GREP
Agents grep.
Embornal already knows.
A repo has no map until someone reads it. Embornal builds the tree once, in tree-sitter, and keeps it waiting for the next question.
01 / A TREE FROM THE SPANS
Structure, not guesswork.
tree-sitter spans nest into a tree of directories, files, and definitions. Every grammar agrees, so no language needs a rule of its own.
02 / YOU WRITE THE SUMMARY
Bring your own model.
Embornal parses and asks; an agent answers. No model, key, or provider ships in the binary.
03 / ALMOST FREE TO REFRESH
Re-index what changed, and nothing else.
Content hashes skip unchanged files, and summaries pool by hash, shared across every branch.
A MAP, NOT A GUESS
Ask the repo
a real question.
Search the index by word, by meaning, or walk the tree yourself. Embornal answers with the function, the file, and the summary — not a page of grep matches.
tree-sitter · 6 languages
See the code docs$ embornal code index
collection ~/projects/thing: 47 files, 1422 nodes
$ embornal code recall
"where the token is checked"
Score Kind Name
1.842 function token.rs::Token::openONE BINARY. TWO TOOLS.
Pack better context
for the next run.
Install Embornal once, then teach your agent both loops: a memory that compounds, and a code map that never goes stale.
curl -LsSf https://github.com/tncardoso/embornal/releases/latest/download/embornal-installer.sh | sh