Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm howznguyen, and I built Knowns because I was frustrated with one thing: my AI coding assistant is incredibly smart, but it has the memory of a goldfish Every morning I'd open Claude or Cursor and spend 10-15 minutes re-explaining my project. "We use the repository pattern." "Here's how auth works." "Remember, we decided last week to..." It felt like onboarding a new developer every single day. So I built Knowns — a local-first project memory layer that gives AI assistants structured access to everything they need: tasks with acceptance criteria, documentation with cross-references, architectural decisions, coding conventions, and more. The key insight: AI doesn't lack intelligence. It lacks access to what your project already knows. With Knowns: - Sessions start warm instead of cold - AI follows `@doc/patterns/auth` instead of you pasting 50 lines - Decisions persist in memory — AI recalls them automatically - Tasks have clear "done" definitions — AI validates completion itself It's fully open-source, local-first (no cloud, no API keys for core features), and works with any MCP-compatible AI assistant. I'd love your feedback. What's the biggest pain point you have with AI coding assistants forgetting context?

Knowns

Persistent project memory for AI coding assistants

Persistent project memory for AI coding assistants