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Woolly, a local memory shared by all your AI tools

Woolly, a new MIT-licensed open-source tool, launched to give all of a user's AI apps a single shared memory stored as plain Markdown files on the user's own machine, with no cloud, account or tracking. Woolly connects to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor and other MCP apps via `claude mcp add woolly -- woolly mcp`, and its `woolly proxy` command injects stored facts into chats for Ollama and any app using the OpenAI or Anthropic API. The tool is installable via curl, Homebrew, PowerShell or `go install`, ships a `woolly-ai` Python package for adding memory to prompts, and includes `woolly import` to pull facts from ChatGPT and Claude exports.

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Woolly, a local memory shared by all your AI tools
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One memory for all your AI tools. Local, private, and always up to date.

Ollama runs your models. Woolly remembers for them.

Website · Docs · Quickstart

Every AI app forgets you, or keeps its own memory on someone else's servers. Claude doesn't know what you told ChatGPT, and Cursor doesn't know either.

Woolly runs on your computer and gives all of them one shared memory. It's stored as plain Markdown files you can open and edit, and nothing ever leaves your machine.

curl -fsSL https://usewoolly.com/install.sh | sh
woolly remember "I prefer short answers"
claude mcp add woolly -- woolly mcp

Now Claude Code remembers. So does every other app you connect.

Other ways to install: brew install rjcuff/tap/woolly, or on Windows irm https://usewoolly.com/install.ps1 | iex, or go install github.com/rjcuff/woolly/cmd/woolly@latest.

Works with your AI tools. Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor and any other MCP app can save and look up memories on their own.

Gives Ollama a memory. woolly proxy adds what Woolly knows to every chat, for Ollama and any app that uses the OpenAI or Anthropic API.

Keeps facts current. Say you moved to Denver, and Denver replaces Austin. Your AI stops bringing up things that stopped being true.

Lets you decide. If an AI guesses something that contradicts what you said, your version stays and the guess is flagged for you to review.

Shows you everything. woolly ui opens a page where you can search, edit and delete every memory. Or open the files yourself.

Brings in your history. woolly import pulls facts about you out of your ChatGPT and Claude exports.

Stays private and safe. No cloud, no account, no tracking. Passwords and API keys are refused, an AI can't plant instructions in your memory, and deleted memories go to a trash you can restore from.

Builds into your apps. pip install woolly-ai and add memory to any prompt in one line.

woolly proxy
OLLAMA_HOST=127.0.0.1:11436 ollama run llama3.2

Every chat now includes what Woolly knows about you, and facts you mention are saved. For OpenAI or Anthropic apps, point the app's base URL at the proxy. See Proxy.

pip install woolly-ai
python
import woolly

woolly.remember("Moved to Denver in October", key="user.location")
system_prompt = "You are a helpful assistant.\n\n" + woolly.context(user_message)

See Python.

woolly remember "Moved to Denver" --key user.location   # a newer fact with the same key replaces the old one
woolly recall "where do I live"
woolly profile          # a summary of what Woolly knows about you
woolly ui               # review and edit memories in your browser
woolly import chatgpt ~/Downloads/export.zip --dry-run
woolly forget <id>      # moves it to the trash; undo with woolly restore <id>
woolly proxy            # memory for Ollama, OpenAI and Anthropic apps

Full list: Commands.

Add this to the app's MCP config:

{ "mcpServers": { "woolly": { "command": "woolly", "args": ["mcp"] } } }

See Connect your apps.

No. Woolly works on its own. If Ollama is running, Woolly also uses it to search by meaning.

Folder Contents
cmd/woolly ,internal The Woolly program, written in Go
docs Documentation in MDX
ui The review page, built into the binary
sdk/python The woolly-ai Python package
web Website and docs site
scripts Install, release and Homebrew scripts
packaging/homebrew The Homebrew formula, kept in sync with the tap

MIT license.

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