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CodeAbra/iai-personal-memory-engine

RepoRadar surfaced CodeAbra/iai-personal-memory-engine — an AI project — into the AI Infrastructure section, where it sits at Gold tier with a 'try now' verdict. Its strongest signal is workflow potential, scored 9.6 out of 10.

Score8.5
Popularity1.0
Riskconditional
TierGold
Score breakdown
Usefulness9.0
Novelty8.0
Momentum6.0
Maturity6.6
Open-source/build8.4
Evidence8.0
Workflow potential9.6
Setup ease6.4

Popularity is tracked separately. Support, ads, sponsorships, and tips never affect these signals.

Why it matters

Useful for people whose agent workflows keep losing hard-won context between sessions and need local recall without handing project memory to a hosted service.

Who should use it

Developers using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or Hermes across long-lived projects Builders who want local memory without shipping project history to a hosted memory service Teams evaluating how much persistent recall changes coding-agent usefulness across sessions Self-hosters comparing different MCP memory designs

Who should skip it

Pass on CodeAbra/iai-personal-memory-engine if its scope or audience does not match what your team is building right now.

About this signal

CodeAbra/iai-personal-memory-engine is tracked by RepoRadar as an AI project in the AI Infrastructure section. It was first seen on 2026-06-18 and last updated on 2026-06-18. The current verdict is 'try now' with a Gold tier and moderate setup difficulty. CodeAbra/iai-personal-memory-engine leads on workflow potential (9.6) and practical usefulness (9.0); its lowest signal is momentum (6.0), so factor that in before investing setup time. This page summarizes the public evidence on the linked source page and states where additional review is still needed. The score, tier, risk label, and verdict on this page are never influenced by sponsorship, ads, or tips — they reflect only the usefulness, popularity, novelty, momentum, maturity, and evidence signals described in the RepoRadar methodology.

How this item is evaluated

RepoRadar assigned CodeAbra/iai-personal-memory-engine a composite score of 8.5 out of 10, placing it in the Gold tier. This score combines weighted sub-signals: usefulness (35%), novelty (18%), momentum (14%), maturity (10%), open-source/build quality (7%), evidence quality (6%), workflow potential (6%), and setup ease (4%). Popularity is tracked separately at 1.0 and never affects the composite score or tier. The risk label of 'conditional' reflects inherent user-impacting hazards, not generic novelty. Items with no risk flag may still require normal code review before production use.

Putting this into practice? Read How to evaluate an AI tool before you adopt it for the checklist behind this score.

Risk explanation

It captures real coding-assistant session history, so first rollout should stay on trusted projects until retention, redaction, and disk layout are fully understood; Install path pulls together Python, Node, and a native Rust build, so Windows and mixed-environment teams should treat the current setup as a hands-on evaluation rather than a zero-friction drop-in.

Evidence links
Closest alternatives / related signals
memory mcp claude-code codex cursor gemini-cli mit
Verification record

What RepoRadar actually verified

Discovered

Automated discovery and source capture. Last checked 2026-08-03T18:32:00Z.

No editorial or hands-on review is claimed. This record remains at Discovered.

Verification sources

Longitudinal intelligence

How this decision record is moving

Raw history JSON →

37 dated snapshots retained from 2026-06-18 through 2026-08-03; see the snapshot index for explicit coverage gaps. Stars, version, release, pricing, integration, risk, maintenance, verdict, score, and momentum fields remain explicit even when a source has not reported them. Repository momentum is a normalized 0–10 RepoRadar signal; GitHub stars appear only where the popularity monitor retained exact timestamped observations.

RepoRadar score8.5 current · +0.2 net
Repository momentum9.0 current · +1.0 net
GitHub stars (observed)477 current · +137 net
GitHub stars477 exact observation
Versionv2.8.1
Last release2026-08-03T01:25:49Z
Maintenanceactive
Current riskconditional
Current verdicttry now
Pricing baselineNo structured commercial pricing baseline
Pricing checkedNot applicable or not recorded
Pricing freshnessNo dated commercial pricing review
Integrations baselineClaude, Claude Code, Google Gemini, Model Context Protocol, OpenAI Codex

Recent dated points

DateScoreMomentumStarsRiskVerdictMaintenance
2026-08-038.59.0477conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-028.59.3477conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-018.59.0475conditionaltry nowactive
2026-07-318.56.0Not recordedconditionaltry nownot recorded
2026-07-308.56.0Not recordedconditionaltry nownot recorded
2026-07-298.59.6469conditionaltry nowactive
2026-07-288.59.0423conditionaltry nowactive
2026-07-218.59.0345conditionaltry nowactive
2026-07-208.59.0345conditionaltry nowactive
2026-07-198.59.0345conditionaltry nowactive
2026-07-188.59.0345conditionaltry nowactive
2026-07-178.59.0345conditionaltry nowactive

Why the record changed

version changed

Version changed: v2.8.0 → v2.8.1.

stars changed

Stars changed: 475 → 477.

version changed

Source-observed version changed: v2.7.3 → v2.8.0. Associated release timestamp: 2026-07-29T22:27:22Z → 2026-08-01T08:13:29Z. This reports the retained observation delta and does not infer why the upstream change occurred.

stars changed

Stars changed: 423 → 469.

version changed

Version changed: v2.6.1 → v2.7.2.

stars changed

Source-observed stars changed: 412 → 423. This reports the retained observation delta and does not infer why the upstream change occurred.

stars changed

Stars changed: 345 → 412.

version changed

Version changed: v2.3.1 → v2.6.1.

stars changed

Stars changed: 340 → 345.

version changed

Version changed: v2.2.2 → v2.3.1.

verdict changed

Reconstructed from adjacent retained daily snapshots; no upstream cause is inferred. Verdict changed: watch → try_now.

popularity changed

Reconstructed from adjacent retained daily snapshots; no upstream cause is inferred. Popularity changed: 82.0 → 1.0.