context + torch

Give your agents a memory.

contorch is a local, persistent context layer for coding agents. Meetings transcribe themselves, tasks and sources accumulate, repo knowledge sticks — and any agent that speaks MCP (Claude Code, Codex, anything) can search all of it, in any session, on any day.

$ curl -fsSL contorch.com/install | bash

Free · Apache-2.0 · local-first · see how it runs ↓

the context layer

## How it runs

Context flows in from everywhere you work. It comes back out wherever an agent asks.

  1. 1 · Feed

    Everything you touch becomes context.

    Meetings capture themselves — a macOS daemon notices your mic go live and transcribes both sides as Me and Them, no bot in the call. Drop in links, files, and notes. Create tasks. Agents save repo gotchas as they hit them.

  2. 2 · Orchestrate

    One local index over all of it.

    context-orchestrator keeps tasks and sources in SQLite and every sentence — transcripts, notes, repo knowledge — in a local vector index, searchable by meaning. Plain files on your disk. No cloud sync, no account.

  3. 3 · Recall

    Any agent picks up where you left off.

    Over MCP, an agent loads a task's full manifest or asks “what did we decide about pricing?” and gets the answer with the meeting and timestamp it came from. That's the torch: context carried from every past session into the current one.

Most of what an agent needs already happened —
in a conversation, a doc, a lesson learned.
contorch just keeps it.

## Install

One command stands up the whole stack. Re-run it anytime; it's idempotent.

1 · Bootstrap

$ curl -fsSL contorch.com/install | bash

Installs the context-orchestrator MCP server, the meeting-capture daemon, a menu-bar monitor, and the Claude Code auto-context hook. Missing prerequisites arrive via Homebrew.

2 · Click what macOS asks you to

Two permissions for meeting capture: Screen & System Audio Recording and Microphone. The script ends with a punch-list, and doctor commands verify every piece.

$ transcript-watcher doctor
✓ all checks passed

3 · Optional: Gemini key

Meeting transcription runs on Gemini — a free key from aistudio.google.com/apikey, about $0.0002 per meeting-minute beyond the free tier. Skip it and everything else stays fully local: tasks, sources, search, clipboard transcripts.

Then restart Claude Code and just work.