
I built an AI memory that fact-checks itself while you sleep
The Problem AI agents forget everything between sessions. Claude Code uses MEMORY.md files — a 200-line limit, no search, no validation. After months of manually maintaining memory files, I built something better. What is BrainDB? BrainDB is a local-first AI memory system built on SQLite. No cloud, no vector database, no subscriptions. One SQLite file, 110 REST endpoints, 51 MCP tools. Why SQLite instead of Pinecone/Weaviate? SQLite with FTS5 gives you sub-millisecond full-text search with BM25 ranking. Combined with embedding vectors (stored as BLOBs), you get hybrid search — keyword precision + semantic understanding. For <100k memories, this beats any managed vector DB in latency and simplicity. The killer features nobody else has 1. Inception — Nightly fact-checking Every night, BrainDB picks high-importance memories, generates search queries, searches the web via SearXNG, and fact-checks them with an LLM. Last run found 26 outdated facts automatically. [inception] Processing: "Pos
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