Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognition The Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledge Lecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompleteness Arbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemology Women, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Other Minds — Godfrey-Smith "The octopus has 350 million neurons in its arms. The arms think for themselves." #distributed-cognitionThe Use of Knowledge in Society "Hayek, 1945: 'the knowledge of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form'" #local-knowledgeLecture note "Gödel: any formal system rich enough to express arithmetic contains true statements it cannot prove" #incompletenessArbesman — The Half-Life of Facts "half-life of a fact in physics: ~13 years. in surgery, closer to 7" #epistemologyWomen, Fire and Dangerous Things "Lakoff: human categories organize around prototypes, not necessary and sufficient conditions" #cognition
Research How Enzyme gets 8ms query-time retrieval from compiled workspace memory →

Memory retrieval tuned to your knowledge base.

Your users bring collections. Enzyme makes your agent fluent in what they care about — faster and at a fraction of the tokens.

42,000+ downloads · Local CLI · Hosted workflows

Let your agent set it up

Open your Markdown notes folder in Claude Code, Codex, or another agent with terminal access. Paste this prompt. If your agent is open elsewhere, give it the path to your notes.

Set up Enzyme for the Markdown notes folder I have open. If you cannot identify it, ask me for its path.

Install Enzyme if needed using https://raw.githubusercontent.com/byenzyme/enzyme/main/install.sh, and install the instructions for this agent. Read and follow the installed enzyme-workspace-setup skill.

You may use Enzyme's online service to suggest settings from my notes and prepare search. Show me what you propose to include or exclude, and let me correct it before building the local search index.

Then answer one useful question using my notes, with links to the sources, and suggest a question I can ask next. Keep my existing notes in place and unchanged. Ask separately before any cleanup, model download, or recurring task.

You’ll review the settings, then try a real question with answers linked to your notes. No cleanup required.

$ curl -fsSL byenzyme.com/install.sh | bash 
$ cat AGENTS.md

<!-- enzyme:start -->
## Enzyme Workspace Context

This workspace uses Enzyme for artifact-native agent memory.
Keep durable memory as appendable markdown: session notes,
decisions, observations, preferences, and project logs.
Run all `enzyme` commands from the vault root.

### Working memory

`enzyme petri` is working memory: it returns current
entities and catalysts, which are source-grounded questions
compiled from the artifact trail.


Use catalyst phrases as vocabulary for `enzyme catalyze`
searches. They connect to precomputed content that the user's
raw words may not find.

### Search

- `enzyme catalyze "query"` searches by concept/theme.
  Compose queries from petri catalyst vocabulary.


<!-- enzyme:end -->
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and more

Your agent already leaves a memory trail.
Enzyme makes it usable next session.

Session notes, decisions, meeting captures, inbox files, and AGENTS.md are already memory artifacts. Enzyme treats that artifact trail as the source of truth. It reads the structure you can inspect—tags, folders, links, timestamps—and compiles associative context from it.

Other memory layers begin with a database of conversation facts. Enzyme begins with files and logs your agents can keep appending to.

#user-interviews folder:investor-updates [[retention]]

How it fits

One local init. Better context everywhere your agent works.

The landing demo is the visual promise; this is the product loop beneath it: initialize a corpus, precompute useful memory, and retrieve cited context in-session.

COMPILE → REVIEW → INIT

Check the markdown workspace first.

› enzyme compile -v
Online selection proposes settings from your notes
› # Review the .enzyme file at the saved path
› enzyme init
Indexed: 1,247 discovered, 1,247 new
Catalysts: 84 generated
Discovering entities [14/14]
~ #user-interviews → What does the recurring mention of ‘trust’ across interviews reveal…
~ / investor-updates → How does the framing of retention shift between Q2 and Q3…
~ [[retention]] → What assumption about churn is contradicted by the onboarding…
~ #product-decisions → What does the gap between stated priorities and actual velocity…
Embedded: 980 docs (1,948 docs/sec)
Similarities: 84 catalysts × 980 documents
Done! (14.2s)

Tags, folders, links, timestamps, append-only logs—whatever structure you already have. Your notes stay in place.

PETRI → CATALYZE

The right context, before the first question.

User

“Why is retention dropping if onboarding scores are up?”

agent ▸ enzyme catalyze "retention onboarding"
matched catalyst · [[retention]]
“What assumption about churn is contradicted by the onboarding data in the Q3 investor update?”
→ investor-updates/q3.md
→ interviews/user-12.md
→ journal/aug-04.md
result

The Q3 investor update frames churn as an activation problem. But user 12’s interview says the opposite—they activated fine, then left because the product didn’t match what onboarding promised.

Enzyme connected an investor update and a user interview that never reference each other. After the agent writes a note back, refresh makes it part of the next session.

How did it find that? →

Memory without a memory database.

Connections are pre-computed at init from your artifact trail. Query-time retrieval runs against the compiled local index—not a live LLM call. Catalyst generation may use your configured/default provider during init or refresh; retrieval stays source-grounded in your files.

<20s 1k+ doc init
8ms query benchmark
0 query LLM calls
~30MB single binary

The loop is simple: scan the structure, initialize the index, inspect petri, catalyze for context, refresh after new artifacts land.

Claude/Codex supported · Pi via generic AGENTS.md · Hermes/OpenClaw experimental

How is this so fast? →

Early adopters

Thinkers using Enzyme to surface what matters in their notes.

"Enzyme can surface connections I'd only make if I had instant recall... freeing me to use that energy to create and write... I think this is just the beginning."
life coach (NYC)
"Enzyme helps me build richer, more cohesive themes and think more deeply."
HCI researcher, ex-Spotify (Zurich)
"I have a workflow that I love with Readwise, Snipd, and Obsidian. Enzyme beats inertia by quickly drawing me deeper into the meaning of what I'm doing."
songwriter and pastor (NYC)

Build products on what your users have captured.

Your users bring collections. Enzyme gives your agent their conceptual landscape from the first session.

Reading & highlights app Kindle highlights, podcast clips, article saves

Generate writing prompts from two years of reading — grounded in connections the user was already building.

Design tool Exploration sessions, chosen vs. rejected options, revision history

A conversational agent that knows the user's taste — helps them build with their own preferences, not generic defaults.

Engineering assistant ADRs, retros, decision logs, Slack digests

Onboard new engineers with answers that carry the full institutional reasoning, not just the current state.

Talk about your corpus →

Try it on your own vault.

$ curl -fsSL byenzyme.com/install.sh | bash

Local-first indexing with hosted memory workflows when you need them.

Building a product on imported content?

Let's talk about your corpus →

Not ready for the CLI? More integrations coming.

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