Knowns is an open-source project memory platform designed to connect tasks, documentation, and decisions for both teams and AI coding assistants. The tool addresses the challenge of fragmented project knowledge by keeping every task, decision, and pattern linked and searchable within a unified workspace. It is intended to ensure that context remains accessible and reusable across multiple sessions, supporting both human collaborators and coding agents.
The platform features a web-based interface that brings together project tasks, documentation, and memory in a single workspace, offering board views, task details, documentation access, and relationship maps. Knowns includes a project dashboard for monitoring progress and activity, a Kanban board for managing workflow, detailed task views with acceptance criteria and references, a context graph to visualize connections between project elements, and a documentation workspace integrated with the project graph. Semantic search is built in, allowing users to find information by meaning rather than just keywords. The system supports explicit linking between tasks, docs, and decisions, ensuring that no information is orphaned. Templates are available to help teams reuse proven workflows, and the platform is designed to support structured project memory for AI assistants through MCP integration.
Knowns is suitable for solo developers, AI-assisted teams, and organizations managing product and engineering handoffs. It enables all participants—whether human or AI—to start from the same structured context, reducing repeated explanations and ensuring that knowledge is preserved and accessible. The tool supports validation and coverage checks, and it facilitates the extraction and reuse of patterns and decisions for future projects.
js 20+ for npm-based installations. Knowns is released under the MIT License, making it freely available for use and modification. Community support, setup help, and release notes are provided via Discord. By integrating tasks, documentation, and decisions, Knowns serves as a comprehensive knowledge-base solution for collaborative software development and AI-driven workflows.
Knowns is a Knowledge base & wikis product. It focuses on losing project context and knowledge across tasks, documents, and decisions in software development teams. Knowns is an open-source project aimed at software development teams. The project is open source (MIT). It runs on the web and the command line, and it can be self-hosted.
Knowns first shipped in 2025. The project is developed in the open on GitHub with 198 stars and 149 commits in the last 90 days. Across PulseGate's embedding index, Knowns has few near neighbours, marking it as relatively distinct. Among its 7 catalogued features are task linking, document search, and decision tracking.
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