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Your AI conversations
deserve a memory.

CapsuleBase saves your Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini conversations locally — searchable, permanent, and available to Claude as live context during your next conversation.

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Free. Open source. Your data stays on your machine.

CapsuleBase side panel surfacing related memory while you work in Claude

CapsuleBase side panel showing related memory in Claude

Chrome extension — save any conversation in one click

CapsuleBase Chrome extension popup

Side panel watches your conversation and surfaces related memory

CapsuleBase side panel watching conversation

Every new AI conversation starts from zero.

The research you did last month. The decision you worked through last week. The solution you found after two hours of back-and-forth. Gone — unless you remember to go looking for it.

And if you've been using both Claude and ChatGPT? Good luck finding which platform has the conversation you actually need.

AI tools have a memory problem. CapsuleBase solves it.

Memory compounds. Tools don't.

Everyone is talking about who has the best AI tools. The real question is who has the best AI memory. Tools are commodities. A competitor can buy the same tools tomorrow. They can't buy three years of accumulated thinking.

A person running CapsuleBase for three years doesn't just have a tool advantage. They have a knowledge advantage that can't be replicated — the reasoning behind decisions, the dead ends that saved time, the context that made the right answer obvious.

The old CEO retires. The developer who knew why every decision was made wins the lottery. The thinking that took years to build — gone. Unless it was captured while it was happening. This is the problem CapsuleBase solves.
FEATURES
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
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One-click save

Chrome extension saves any Claude conversation instantly. Bulk import your entire Claude or ChatGPT history in minutes.

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Hybrid search

Text and semantic search combined. Find what you mean, not just what you typed — even months later.

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Claude remembers

CapsuleBase connects to Claude Desktop via MCP. Claude quietly searches your history before answering — richer responses every time.

AI summaries

Every saved conversation gets an auto-generated title, summary, tags, and category via Claude API. Organized without effort.

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Cross-platform

Import conversations from Claude and ChatGPT into one searchable local archive. One place for everything.

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Truly local

PostgreSQL + pgvector on your machine. No cloud sync. No account required. Your knowledge never leaves your device.

Three steps to a permanent memory layer.
1

Save

Click the CapsuleBase extension to save any AI conversation to your local knowledge base.

2

Search

Find anything across all your saved conversations with fast hybrid text and semantic search.

3

Remember

Claude automatically pulls relevant context from your history — richer, more informed answers every time.

PHILOSOPHY
Local first. Genuinely.

Most tools that claim to protect your privacy still send your data somewhere for processing. CapsuleBase is different. The database is yours. The search index is yours. Everything runs on your machine.

Hosting your thinking on someone else's AI platform is like selling on Amazon while Amazon watches what sells. Local first isn't the alternative to the cloud — it's the grown-up response to what the cloud turned out to be.

No subscription that can disappear. No vendor who can change the terms. Your knowledge, permanently yours.

PostgreSQL + pgvector FastAPI Claude API OpenAI Embeddings Ollama (fully local) Chrome Extension MCP Server
Up and running in minutes.
# Clone and run the setup script
git clone https://github.com/rene-kropf/capsulebase.git
cd capsulebase
bash setup.sh

Requires Python 3.11+ and an Anthropic or OpenAI API key.

⚠️ Currently Mac only (Apple Silicon + Intel). Windows and Linux support coming.


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Building for a team?

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