About
A living personal knowledge library.
Agents capture what they learn, you add sources you trust, and Wenlan keeps source-cited wiki pages current across AI work.
Project status
v0.10.0
macOS, Linux, Windows
Apache-2.0
Built by Qi-Xuan Lu
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Why Wenlan exists
AI work has become serious work, but most sessions still end like disposable conversations. Decisions, debugging lessons, project constraints, and handoffs get buried in old chats.
Wenlan is built so the work can compound. Agents can save what matters, recall it later, and keep refined context available across MCP-compatible tools.
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Design principles
Local-first
Memory starts on your machine. Cloud sync, telemetry, local models, and API keys are opt-in choices rather than the default source of truth.
Human-readable
Memory, page, and session writes leave Markdown artifacts in local git. The daemon database powers retrieval, while the source-cited artifacts stay inspectable.
Session rhythm
Wenlan follows how AI work actually happens: load context, capture durable facts, write handoffs, and bring the right context into the next run.
Deliberate distillation
Between sessions, Wenlan deduplicates repeat facts and links related ideas. Run /distill when a topic deserves a source-backed page; local models or API keys can add automatic page distillation and richer graph work.
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Built by Qi-Xuan Lu
Wenlan is built and maintained by Qi-Xuan Lu (GitHub @7xuanlu). Background in AI infrastructure, knowledge graphs, and local-first systems.
The work focuses on memory as a first-class layer for AI tools: hybrid retrieval on libSQL, real git versioning for readable pages, session handoffs, and status artifacts, mandatory provenance on distilled pages, and one daemon serving every MCP-compatible client.
Project channels: GitHub Issues for bugs and feature requests, SECURITY.md for vulnerabilities, and the Wenlan release notes for changes.
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Current status
Wenlan v0.10.0 ships for macOS (arm64, x64), Linux (x86_64, aarch64; glibc), and Windows (x86_64). The daemon, CLI, MCP server, and Claude Code plugin are open source under Apache-2.0.