FAQ · STRAIGHT ANSWERS
If you’re evaluating this for real, these matter more than the feature list.
The Questions
No. Anvaya Mind runs as a local daemon and stores everything under .anvaya/mind/ inside your project — SQLite, an HNSW vector index, and an append-only temporal log. With the default Ollama provider, the entire loop runs on your machine and nothing is transmitted. The Anthropic, OpenAI, and Siemens providers exist only if you configure an API key yourself.
Yes — over MCP. Mind ships an MCP server (mind-mcp), so any MCP-capable client can query the same memory. A five-line .mcp.json in your project root exposes eight tools: mind_query, mind_search, mind_record_change, mind_get_node, mind_stats, mind_start_session, mind_end_session, mind_get_threads.
Four: Ollama (local, default — no API key), Anthropic, OpenAI, and Siemens. Ollama is first-class: embeddings, summarization, and generation all run locally with a pulled model like devstral.
A CLAUDE.md is flat text you maintain by hand — it grows, rots, and keeps asserting the old thing until someone edits it. Mind is a weighted, linked, decaying graph: nodes have types and half-lives, stale ones are detected against git drift, and only the relevant few are packed into each query's token budget.
No, and that's deliberate. The graph is project-local and tied to one machine. There is no cloud sync and no multi-machine replication — the files live in your repo's working tree, gitignored by default.
Mind is a Unix-socket daemon, so the supported surface today is Linux and macOS. The CLI builds from source with Rust 1.75+ and runs as a TUI or headless in CI.
Public beta launches in Q4 2026. Anvaya is pre-1.0 and unreleased — both halves build from source, and the changelog is a real build log. Pricing isn't set, but the core will stay local-first regardless of what the SaaS layer ends up looking like. Early access is open via the waitlist.
No. Anvaya is a proprietary product. The website, identity, and design system are original and not derived from any open-source project.
One binary. Four providers — Ollama, Anthropic, OpenAI, Siemens. Zero API keys required to start. Mind remembers everything after the first session.