SwarmVault is an open-source, local-first tool designed for building LLM-based wikis, knowledge graphs, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) knowledge bases. It is built on Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern and enables users to compile, navigate, and manage persistent knowledge artifacts from diverse sources such as documents, codebases, books, datasets, slide decks, screenshots, files, and URLs. SwarmVault emphasizes a workflow where all data and artifacts remain local, with no cloud dependency required, allowing users to start fully offline without API keys.
md) that defines naming conventions, categories, and grounding rules. Users ingest sources, which are then processed into immutable manifests with content hashes, and compiled into a knowledge graph with nodes, edges, provenance tracking, and auto-generated Markdown wiki pages. The system supports graph navigation, review queues, context packs, task history, and automation as the vault evolves. It also features anti-drift linting to detect stale sources, conflicting claims, missing citations, and coverage gaps, with the option to attach external evidence during deep linting.
SwarmVault is accessible via a command-line interface (CLI) and a desktop application. The CLI allows users to initialize vaults, ingest content, compile, query, retrieve, explore, lint, and serve the graph, among other tasks. The desktop viewer reads the same local files written by the CLI, providing a unified and explainable workspace where users can see the graph, approvals, candidates, and search results in one interface. The tool can operate entirely offline using built-in heuristics, but users can optionally integrate model providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible API for enhanced synthesis and capabilities.
SwarmVault is MIT licensed, self-hosted, and part of the SwarmClaw network. It is suitable for a range of use cases, including compiling research, building personal wikis, managing code documentation, and creating structured personal knowledge bases. The platform supports agent-ready features, such as auto-install rules for Claude, Cursor, and Codex, and can expose the vault to agents via MCP for compatible clients.
SwarmVault sits in PulseGate's RAG, search & retrieval category. It enables users to build and manage local LLM-powered knowledge graphs and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) bases from their own documents. SwarmVault is an open-source project aimed at developers and knowledge managers. The project is open source (MIT). The product ships for the web, the command line, macOS, Windows, and Linux, and it can be self-hosted.
SwarmVault first shipped in 2026. The project is developed in the open on GitHub with 585 stars and 196 commits in the last 90 days. Among its 7 catalogued features are local knowledge graph, RAG knowledge base, and CLI tool.
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