Common questions
How is this different from CLAUDE.md or cursor rules?
CLAUDE.md and cursor rules only reflect what someone last edited. They live in flat files, accumulate contradictions, and can’t capture decisions made outside the repo. Memex AI is what that stack was trying to be - structured, stored in SQL, maintained automatically from the build itself, and delivered scoped to each agent per task.
How is this different from SDD tools like Kiro or BMAD?
Spec-driven tools generate a spec and hand it off. Memex keeps the spec alive through the whole build - every decision, whether made in chat with the agent or during review, writes back to the spec - and verifies the result against acceptance criteria before a PR. The spec is the source of truth at the end, not just the start.
Does this sit alongside Jira or replace it?
It sits alongside. Jira and Linear track who’s doing what; Memex tracks what was decided, why, and what an agent needs to know before touching the code. It’s the decision and knowledge substrate underneath your tracker, not a replacement for it.
How does it connect to coding agents?
Memex is an MCP server. Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, and any MCP-compatible agent connect via standard tool calls and read from / write back to the shared graph before writing code.
What do I bring to start?
A repo and a spec, or just a conversation. Paste an existing doc or a conversation with your agent and Memex structures it into a spec. Six starter Standards are seeded into every new workspace.
Is there a free tier?
Yes, free for individual developers at launch. Team and self-hosted plans add multi-agent coordination, shared standards, and collaboration.