GeezerVison

Coding agents are fast, but two things keep projects from getting anywhere: they forget everything between sessions, and they drift from the standards the code needs. Syntopica is the open-source tooling I use every day to fix both.

The engine is public. The data is private. An instance keeps its pages, captures and configuration in a separate directory. The engines find it through syntopica.config.json; personal content stays outside the engine repositories.

Start here: hand syntopica/syntopica to your agent. Its AGENTS.md walks Claude Code or Codex through choosing components, installing them, verifying every engine and connecting itself.

• brain - a personal wiki an agent maintains and a person owns: synthesized, cross-linked Markdown pages, with index, link graph, lint and doctor.
• atrium - retrieval over your own agent conversation history, served over MCP, so past decisions and fixes come back when they matter.
• clips - turns saved web content into cited wiki pages through a model, with validation and human diff approval.
• clipper (Chrome extension) and capture (phone URL inbox) feed it. Both need a fork and a deployment of your own.

• agents - the agent control plane: rules, skills and a workflow engine that enforce planning, testing and review across Claude Code, Codex and other IDEs.
• codeality - shared engineering standards as installable packages (ESLint, Prettier, TypeScript) plus project templates, so agents have a bar they must pass.

test-data is a synthetic instance for exercising the engines.