Alternatives to deja-search
deja-search is an agent skill by vshulcz: deja-vu memory — search the user's past AI coding sessions with the deja CLI. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent skills cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match deja-search and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. caveman-compress leads the list (larger repository (114.8K stars); supports Python). 3 of them are published by the company behind the product. Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with deja-search.
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deja-search
deja-vu memory — search the user's past AI coding sessions with the deja CLI.
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches deja-search (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
- 1caveman-compress
JuliusBrussee
Compress a memory file such as CLAUDE.md or a todo list into caveman format to save input tokens, keeping a readable backup.
- Larger repository (114.8K stars)
- Supports Python
★ 114.8KLast active Oct 17, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2memory-poisoning-detection
TencentOfficial
Detect persistent instruction injection or long-term memory poisoning.
- Published by the vendor
- Larger repository (7.1K stars)
★ 7.1KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3hivemind-goals
activeloopai
Create, track and update team goals via the Deeplake virtual filesystem at memory/goal/.
- Repository has 1.6K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.6KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4nautilus-compass-memory
chunxiaoxx
Local-first long-term memory for AI agents via MCP — zero LLM calls at write time, typed retrieval at read time.
- Repository has 1.3K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.3KLast active Oct 4, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5creative-writing-muse
haowjy
Load when no subagents are available and one agent must plan, draft, critique, research, and capture memory by switching stances.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 535Last active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6how-it-works
thedotmack
Explain how claude-mem captures observations, when memory injection kicks in, and where data lives.
- Larger repository (102.8K stars)
★ 102.8KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7mem-search
thedotmack
Use this when the user asks to search memory, "did we already solve this?", "how did we do X last time?", or wants work from previous sessions.
- Larger repository (102.8K stars)
★ 102.8KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8story-memory
haowjy
Creative-writing domain knowledge for durable story state.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 535Last active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9remember
langchain-aiOfficial
Review the current conversation and capture valuable knowledge — best practices, coding conventions, architecture decisions, workflows, and user feedback —…
- Published by the vendor
- Larger repository (30.6K stars)
★ 30.6KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10coding-prefs
langchain-aiOfficial
Read the user's coding preferences from /memory/coding-prefs.md before making non-trivial style decisions, and append new preferences when the user gives…
- Published by the vendor
- Larger repository (30.6K stars)
★ 30.6KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11lsp-simulate
blackwell-systems
Speculative code editing session — simulate changes in memory before touching disk.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 164Last active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12apache-arrow
terminal-skills
Expert guidance for Apache Arrow, the cross-language columnar memory format for analytics workloads.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 195Last active Sep 28, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet