Every AI tool knows you differently today - and most don't know you at all. Clankervault is one folder of plain markdown that all of them read: who you are, how you work, what you decided and why. On every machine, in every account, the same.
No account. No cloud. Your files, on your disk, in a format you can read with cat.
on your other machine has no idea what you started yesterday.
doesn't know why you built things the way you built them.
doesn't remember you from the last six months.
everything you ever cleared up with them died when the window closed.
You keep one readable folder. clanker compile renders it into the
native file each tool already loads automatically - so your agents don't need
to learn anything. They just wake up knowing you.
vault/
├── me/
│ ├── profile.md
│ └── taste/
└── projects/
└── cettra/
├── project.md
├── records/
│ └── ...one file
│ per fact
└── state.md
clanker setup detects what's installed, discovers your projects
from real session transcripts, wires the hooks and MCP configs, and compiles
everything. Real output from a real machine:
$ clanker setup Detected tools: claude-code, codex, cursor, gemini, claude-desktop Registered project cettra (/Users/you/Development/cettra-eshop) Registered project verdikt (/Users/you/Development/verdikt-apps) Wired Claude Code SessionStart hook Wired Claude Desktop MCP config Wired Cursor MCP config Fast-forwarded 790 transcript(s); mining starts fresh from here. skipped ~/Development/studio/CLAUDE.md: existing file is not clankervault-generated (use --force to overwrite) Compiled 14 project(s).
That skipped line is a feature: it never overwrites a context file you wrote by hand.
---
type: recipe
status: confirmed
source: claude-code # where it came from
tags: [ffmpeg, shorts]
---
# Export shorts
## How
`ffmpeg -crf 18 -preset slow`
## Why
CRF 23 blurred the text after
the platform recompressed it.
18 is verified sharp.
clanker mine distills decisions, recipes and work-in-progress out of
your AI session transcripts - starting with Claude Code, more tools on the way.
Everything mined lands as a pending record: nothing settles into your memory
without your say.
clanker serve. The remote only ever sees ciphertext.macbook $ clanker add fact "Deploy on Vercel" macbook $ clanker sync synced: 5 up, 0 down, 0 conflicts mini $ clanker sync synced: 0 up, 3 down, 0 conflicts mini $ clanker list -p demo fct-2026-07-24 [confirmed] Deploy on Vercel # what the cloud folder sees: cloud $ ls objects/ | head -2 435f9bc30a013f8bf673226f... 8ab16c62d4a94dbdb00d1056...