hivemind vs memsearch
Activeloop's shared brain for agent TEAMS: traces from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor & co become reusable skills every teammate's agent can execute — cloud-backed, 25% cheaper on LoCoMo. — versus — Zilliz's unified memory for coding agents: one Markdown + Milvus store shared across Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and OpenClaw — hybrid search, plus repeated workflows distilled into skills.
Both distill agent sessions into shared, reusable skills across multiple agent hosts. memsearch is local-first, one machine, Markdown+Milvus; Hivemind is cloud-backed and team-scoped — your colleague's agent learns from yours.
| hivemind | memsearch | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 1.5k | 2.3k |
| Forks | 94 | 206 |
| Language | TypeScript | Python |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Last activity | 3 days ago | 2 days ago |
| Topics | memory, coding | memory, coding |
| Curated connections | 2 | 5 |
hivemind — the curator's take
The pitch is the org-level version of agent memory: one engineer's agent figures out the tricky migration on Monday, every agent on the team executes the pattern Tuesday. Auto-learning from traces across seven agent hosts, with real LoCoMo receipts (25% cheaper, 1.7x fewer tokens vs no shared memory). Reach for it when the unit of learning is the team, not the seat. NOT local-first: cloud-backed on Deeplake is the architecture AND the business model (Activeloop, YC) — traces of your engineers' sessions leave the machine, so clear it with whoever owns your IP policy before the whole team wires in.
memsearch — the curator's take
The cross-platform play is the point: a conversation in Claude Code becomes searchable context in Codex, OpenCode and OpenClaw — one memory, four plugins, zero per-agent setup. Memories live in readable Markdown (greppable, versionable) with Milvus doing hybrid search, and the standout feature is procedural: it watches for workflows you repeat and distills them into installable skills, maintained in the background. NOT for single-agent loyalists — if you only run Claude Code, opencode-mem-style plugins are lighter — and it's a Zilliz project: the Milvus dependency is also the funnel; check what 'backed by Milvus' costs you operationally before teams adopt.