Modulus
Cross-repository knowledge orchestration for coding agents
Details
- External ID
- 47327351
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Modulus
- Website domain
- modulus.so
- Launched
- March 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6845018450184502
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hello HN, we're Jeet and Husain from Modulus (https://modulus.so) - a desktop app that lets you run multiple coding agents with shared project memory. We built it to solve two problems we kept running into:- Cross-repo context is broken. When working across multiple repositories, agents don't understand dependencies between them. Even if we open two repos in separate Cursor windows, we still have to manually explain the backend API schema while making changes in the frontend repo.- Agents lose context. Switching between coding agents often means losing context and repeating the same instructions again.Modulus shares memory across agents and repositories so they can understand your entire system.It's an alternative to tools like Conductor for orchestrating AI coding agents to build product, but we focused specifically on multi-repo workflows (e.g., backend repo + client repo + shared library repo + AI agents repo). We built our own Memory and Context Engine from the ground up specifically for coding agents.Why build another agent orchestration tool? It came from our own problem. While working on our last startup, Husain and I were working across two different repositories. Working across repos meant manually pasting API schemas between Cursor windows — telling the frontend agent what the backend API looked like again and again. So we built a small context engine to share knowledge across repos and hooked it up to Cursor via MCP. This later became Modulus.Soon, Modulus will allow teams to share knowledge with others to improve their workflows with AI coding agents - enabling team collaboration in the era of AI coding. Our API will allow developers to switch between coding agents or IDEs without losing any context.If you wanna see a quick demo before trying out, here is our launch post - https://x.com/subhajitsh/status/2024202076293841208We'd greatly appreciate any feedback you have and hope you get the chance to try out Modulus.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent frameworks and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- knowledge orchestration for coding agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A multi-agent desktop UI can be vibe-coded, but indexing and synchronizing cross-repository dependency graphs and semantic memory across concurrent coding agents is complex.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a desktop shell (Tauri or Electron) that orchestrates local CLI processes, connected to a daemon running tree-sitter AST parsers, language server protocol (LSP) multiplexers, and a localized vector graph database. The hard challenge is resolving inter-repository code references, cross-boundary type definitions, and keeping semantic memory synchronized across concurrent agent edits without drift. This requires advanced knowledge of static code analysis, AST parsing, and distributed context management.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Memory controller bottleneck on lower-end ARM v8 cores, Whether SIMD approach is tuned for ARM or just x86/high-end silicon
Competitors
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Attention rank: #131 of 363 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 130 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Egregore · hn · 2026-04-17 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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- ContextHarbor · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ResumeContext · ph · 2026-09-22 · 71 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- coding-agent · github · 2026-09-19 · 76 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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