pensieve
Local search across your files, git repos and AI agent sessions on your Mac. An MCP server gives your agents the best context, a 3D map shows your work by topic, and git blame shows who knows what.
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Details
- External ID
- 1409698229
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- pensieve
- Website domain
- tedhaley.ca
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 51
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.72
- Tags
- ai-agents, claude-code, code-search, developer-tools, git-blame, local-first, macos, mcp, mcp-server, semantic-search
Enrichment
- Niche
- semantic search and rag tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- local semantic search and context server for mac developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building an MCP server and simple vector search is straightforward, but low-latency live local file watching, git-worktree indexation, and native Apple Silicon background optimization require systems-level engineering.
What it would actually take: Requires a native macOS daemon (Swift/Rust) hooked into FSEvents for real-time incremental change detection across git worktrees, alongside local vector embedding generation (using CoreML/Metal) and hybrid BM25/vector retrieval (e.g., SQLite with sqlite-vec or Tantivy). The hard parts are sub-millisecond query responses, low memory/CPU background indexing, and deep git-history blame traversal at scale. Requires systems programming and local search optimization skills.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #139 of 339 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 342 days after the earliest competitor.
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