Cross-Project Memory For Coding Agents That Stays Scoped
Caveman is a token-efficient memory stack for agent-native builders that gives coding assistants persistent context across sessions, reaching 532 GitHub stars as developers fight the amnesia of AI coding tools, but its issues show the reliability and correctness gaps: it fails to start with spawn errors on Windows and WSL, and crucially, prior-session context leaks across unrelated projects instead of being scoped to the working directory. Developers want their agent to remember the right project, not bleed context between them. The wedge is persistent, correctly-scoped agent memory that installs reliably across platforms.
Problem Statement
A developer adds a memory layer so their coding agent remembers project context across sessions, but it will not start on Windows or WSL with spawn errors, and when it does run, it surfaces context from unrelated projects because memory is not scoped to the working directory. The agent gets confused by leaked context, which is worse than no memory, so they uninstall it and keep re-explaining their codebase each session.
The Idea
A token-efficient persistent memory layer for coding agents that scopes context correctly to each project and installs reliably across operating systems.
Why Now
Coding agents forget everything between sessions in 2026, and developers want persistent memory to avoid re-explaining their codebase, and Caveman's traction shows strong demand, but its Windows and WSL install failures and cross-project context leakage show that reliable, correctly-scoped memory is the unsolved problem that determines whether the memory helps or hurts.
Target User
Developers using AI coding agents who want reliable persistent, project-scoped memory
Target Market
AI agent memory and context tooling
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