hassancs91

Brainoutside — AI skill for Claude Code

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Self-hosted memory server for AI agents.

How to install Brainoutside

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open hassancs91/brainoutside and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Brainoutside does

Self-hosted memory server for AI agents. Your brain is a git repo, served over MCP and REST.

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README

BrainOutside

**Your brain, kept outside your head — where your agents can read it.**

A self-hosted memory server for your AI agents. One git repo full of markdown is your brain; BrainOutside serves it over REST and MCP, with visibility tiers enforced server-side and a human gate on every write.

Single-user and single-brain by design. That is the product, not a limitation waiting to be fixed.

**Two ways to run a brain, one repo between them.** Start local: clone [brainoutside-template](https://github.com/hassancs91/brainoutside-template), open it in VS Code, and Claude Code is the whole interface — free, private, zero infrastructure. Or self-host this server as the brain's online head, so every agent you run anywhere can read your mind over MCP and REST. They compose: the local repo IS the repo the server clones. Start local today, add the server when you want it, migrate nothing. Site and docs: [brainoutside.com](https://brainoutside.com).

Status: pre-release. The engine and the first-run wizard are built and verified end to end; what remains before the public beta is packaging, docs, and launch assets.

📖 Read the guide

The full walkthrough lives on my site: what a second brain is actually for, why plain markdown beats a vector database for personal knowledge, and how to go from an empty repo to a self-hosted brain your agents can read. **[How to Build an AI Second Brain](https://learnwithhasan.com/guide/ai-second-brain/?utm_source=github&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=brainoutside&utm_content=body)**

Free to read, no login.

Where this came from

This project grew out of [Andrej Karpathy's llm-wiki](https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f) and the wave of markdown knowledge bases around it. The core insight there is right, and it is the foundation this builds on: plain markdown plus a coding agent beats RAG for personal knowledge — compile knowledge in at ingestion time and the artifact compounds, instead of being re