Best Alternatives to Kairn

Moxie Docs MCP

Runtime: npx

★ Featured

Provides repository-aware documentation context, convention checks, API context, and proposed documentation updates through MCP.

Scrivener MCP

Runtime: npx

Connects Scrivener 3 projects to AI clients for editing, analysis, search, and writing support.

Synap Memory

Runtime: uvx

Persistent memory for AI agents — log and recall conversation context over MCP.

Local-first, persistent memory for AI coding agents — remember, recall, forget, and list, over MCP.

Cortex Memory Engine

Runtime: uvx

Local-first AI memory engine — 4-tier memory, people graph, Bayesian beliefs. Encrypted, 62µs.

Local-first AI memory with knowledge graphs and hybrid search. 17+ AI tools via MCP. Free.

Kernal MCP

Runtime: npx

Graph-native memory for AI agents: a knowledge graph built from conversation, via MCP.

Prism Coder

Runtime: npx

Session memory for coding agents: local-first recall, drift detection, on-device inference.

Local-first memory for AI coding agents: shell history with exit codes, git diffs, docs, MCP.

Audrey

Runtime: uvx

Local-first biological memory for coding agents: recall, consolidation, and pre-action Guard checks.

Local-first, governable long-term memory for AI coding agents

Booboo

Runtime: npx

Query your AI system's wiring, knowledge, memory, agents and crons as one rooted graph over MCP.