Project Athena
Project Athena is an open-source, local-first personal knowledge management system for persistent AI agent context. It organizes project state, protocols, and semantic memory so developers can work with different large language models without repeatedly copying context or relying on vendor-controlled memory.
Overview
8 featuresProject Athena is a Memory & skills project. It focuses on maintaining persistent, editable project context and memory across long-running AI-assisted work. It is built as an open-source project for AI developers and technical builders. Project Athena is open source under the MIT license. It runs on the web and the command line, and it can be self-hosted.
It is developed by Winston Koh, and it first shipped in 2026. The project is developed in the open on GitHub with 583 stars and 168 commits in the last 90 days. Key capabilities include persistent memory, project state sync, and semantic memory.
Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.
- Persistent memory
- Project state sync
- Semantic memory
- Agent protocols
- Local-first storage
- LLM context management
- CLI quickstart
- Open-source code
Built with & integrations
- Astro
- /_astro/ in the HTML
Trust & compliance
Indexing history
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Frequently asked questions about Project Athena
- What does Project Athena do?
- Project Athena focuses on maintaining persistent, editable project context and memory across long-running AI-assisted work. It is catalogued under Memory & skills on PulseGate.
- Who should use Project Athena?
- Project Athena is an open-source project built for AI developers and technical builders.
- Does Project Athena have a free plan?
- Yes — Project Athena is open source under the MIT license and free to use.
- What platforms does Project Athena run on?
- Project Athena runs on the web and the command line. It can also be self-hosted.
- Is Project Athena still active?
- The GitHub repository shows 168 commits in the last 90 days.
- Who makes Project Athena?
- Project Athena is developed by Winston Koh.
- When did Project Athena launch?
- Project Athena first shipped in 2026.
- Is Project Athena open source?
- Yes — Project Athena is open source under the MIT license, developed on GitHub.
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