memanto vs memsearch
Fully-local persistent memory for 14+ coding agents, built on an information-theoretic search engine — no vector DB, no API keys, no backend. pip install and your agents remember. — 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.
Same job — one persistent memory shared across your coding agents — opposite infrastructure bets: memsearch runs Markdown + Milvus with embedding models; Memanto runs an information-theoretic engine with no vector DB and no keys at all.
| memanto | memsearch | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 1.7k | 2.3k |
| Forks | 539 | 206 |
| Language | Python | Python |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last activity | yesterday | 2 days ago |
| Topics | memory, local | memory, coding |
| Curated connections | 2 | 5 |
memanto — the curator's take
The zero-infrastructure entry in the agent-memory category: no embedding provider, no vector database, no server — the information-theoretic search bet means everything runs on-device from a pip install, and 14+ agent integrations cover the usual suspects. If 'no API keys, nothing leaves the machine' is your constraint, this is the shortest path to cross-agent memory. NOT battle-hardened at team scale: single-machine by design, and the novel search engine is the differentiator AND the risk — benchmark recall on YOUR corpus before trusting it over boring embeddings; memanto.ai signals a company forming behind it.
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.