One memory. A whole hive around it.
The apiary is a stack of small, sharp programs that give your ai coding agents one shared memory on hardware you control. Each one answers a single stubborn problem.
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Two products carry the memory.
nectar helps your agent understand your code. honeycomb makes it remember. Together they are the memory layer your assistants have been missing.
honeycomb Why does your agent forget everything you told it yesterday?
honeycomb gives every assistant one shared memory that survives sessions and travels across tools.
explore honeycomb
nectar Why does your agent open the wrong file when you ask about logins?
nectar describes every file by what it does, so your agent finds code by meaning, not by name.
explore nectardoctor and hive hold it together.
The flagships do the thinking. These two make sure the stack stays alive and stays one address away.
What happens when a memory daemon dies at 2am?
doctor catches the crash, heals it on a repair ladder, and has your memory back before your next prompt.
Which of the local ports was the dashboard again?
none of your problem. hive is one address, 127.0.0.1:3853, for the whole stack.
queen Once the stack spreads across machines, who can even see the fleet?
queen is the control plane for liveness, identity, and fleet reporting, without ever touching your memory.
Read about queenYour AI coding agents forget everything.
Your assistant is brilliant in the moment and forgetful the next. Close the window and the context is gone. Open a different tool tomorrow and it has never heard of your project. So you re-explain your conventions and re-discover fixes that already worked, day after day.
One memory, four moves.
The apiary watches your work, writes clean notes, and hands the right ones back to any assistant on any device. It captures what happened, distills it into short notes, recalls the right context before your next session, and keeps tidying itself so your project memory gets sharper over time, not noisier.
see how it works- 01 capture every turn across your assistants is captured as it happens.
- 02 distill the daemon keeps what is worth remembering and drops the noise.
- 03 recall the right note surfaces before your next prompt, by words and meaning.
- 04 compound what one teammate learns reaches the whole team, and gets sharper over time.
Works underneath the tools you already use.
Six coding assistants, one shared memory: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Hermes, pi, and OpenClaw. The apiary plugs in underneath whichever ones you have installed, and a memory written from one is recalled by the others, even on a different machine.
compare the assistantsWhat the apiary gives you.
Memory that lasts
Learn something once and every assistant remembers it: the next session, a different tool, another laptop, and your team if you want.
Code found by meaning
Ask where you handle logins and get the right file even when it is named session-refresh.ts, not by keyword.
One portal for everything
A single dashboard at 127.0.0.1:3853 for memories, projects, graphs, health, and ROI.
It heals itself
A watchdog keeps the local daemons alive, repairs what breaks, and stays quiet when everything is fine.
Ready for the fleet
When the stack outgrows one machine, see and steer every agent across machines and teammates, without handing anyone your memory.
One brain for the team
A fix one engineer finds becomes a shareable skill that shows up for the whole team automatically, no copy-paste.
Your data stays yours.
Memory lives in a store you control, powered by Deeplake, and you can host it in your own cloud. A small local helper is the only thing that connects to it, it binds to your machine only, and secrets are never shown to an assistant. Working on something sensitive? Flip to read-only and nothing new is written, while recall still works.
trust and securityWho it is for.
Vibe coders
You live inside an AI coding assistant and just want it to remember your project. One command, a dashboard that opens itself, no databases to run.
Teams and enterprises
Many developers, devices, and tools that should learn as one brain. A discovery by one engineer reaches the whole team, with data separated cleanly by team and project.
Open by default
The apiary is free to use, commercially or privately, under AGPL-3.0. Use it, inspect it, and build on it.
A collaboration between Legion Code and Activeloop: Deeplake for the memory, Hivemind for the open-source core, and the multi-tier memory, skill sharing, and self-healing daemons that tie the hive together.
Common questions
What is the apiary in one sentence?
A small stack of programs that give your AI coding assistants a memory that lasts past the session, travels between tools, and gets sharper over time, all on hardware you own.
Which AI coding assistants work with it?
Six at once: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Hermes, pi, and OpenClaw. The apiary plugs in underneath whichever you have, and a memory written from one is recalled by the others.
Do I need to know about databases or SQL?
No. You install with one command, click a button, and use plain commands. The technical machinery is hidden behind a friendly dashboard.
Where does my data live?
In your own Deeplake store, which you control and can even host in your own cloud account. The small helper on your machine is the only thing that connects to it, and teams and projects are kept separate at the storage layer.
Does it cost money in AI model usage?
The everyday features (capturing, recalling, the briefing) do not need their own model or API key. Two optional extras can use a model: turning sessions into skills, and the periodic self-tidying loop. Both are opt-in.
Is it open and free to use?
Yes. The apiary is licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later. You can use it commercially or privately, free of charge, as long as you keep the license notices and share source if you run a modified version as a network service.
Give your agents a memory that lasts.
One command sets up the whole apiary, doctor included, and keeps it healthy from then on.
Windows (PowerShell): irm https://get.theapiary.sh/install.ps1 | iex
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