What is the Apiary?
The plain-language introduction to the whole Apiary suite. Start here if you want the big picture before reading about any one product.
What is the Apiary?
The plain-language introduction to the whole Apiary suite. Start here if you want the big picture before reading about any one product.
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#The one-line version
The Apiary is a stack of small, sharp programs that give your AI coding agents one shared, lasting memory on hardware you control.
#The problem it solves
AI coding assistants are 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, re-discover fixes that already worked, and repeat yourself to a machine that should have remembered. The Apiary ends the forgetting.
#Five products, one memory
Each product does one job well, and together they work as one system.
- Honeycomb is the memory. It quietly records what happens as you work, distills it into clean notes, and hands them back to any assistant that asks.
- Nectar is the understanding. It gives every file a plain-language description so your agent can find code by meaning, not by file name.
- Hive is the one portal you open. A single dashboard for the whole stack at one address.
- Doctor is the watchdog. It keeps the local daemons alive and heals what breaks, and only speaks up when it genuinely cannot fix something.
- Queen is the cloud orchestrator for when the stack outgrows a single machine. It sees and steers a fleet without ever reading your memory.
#What makes it different
- It runs on your machine. The daemons are local; your memory lives in a store you own.
- It installs in one command. No account to create first, no server to host, no database to run.
- It works underneath the tools you already use. Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex today, with Hermes, pi, and OpenClaw in progress.
- It gets sharper over time. Memory is tidied, lessons become shareable skills, and your codebase becomes searchable by meaning.
- It is honest about your data. Almost nothing leaves your machine, and what does is scrubbed and optional.
#Who it is for
- Individual developers who want their assistant to remember their project.
- Teams and enterprises that want many developers, devices, and tools to learn as one brain, with data separated cleanly by team and project.
#Where it comes from
A collaboration between Legion Code and Activeloop. Activeloop provides Deep Lake, the database for AI the memory lives in, and Hivemind, the open-source agent-memory project Honeycomb builds on. Legion Code adds the multi-tier memory, the skill sharing, the self-tidying loop, and the daemons that tie it all together.
#Next steps
- See how the pieces connect in How the suite fits together.
- Get it running in Install the Apiary.
- Learn the words in the Glossary.