CodeAlmanac turns code chats into a local AI wiki

CodeAlmanac is an open-source tool that builds a project wiki from a codebase. After installing its CLI and choosing an agent, it scans the code and creates the first version of the wiki. It then checks Claude or Codex conversations about the project about every 5 hours and updates the wiki with important context from those chats.

The goal is to preserve decisions, design notes, and project background that often live outside the code but matter when an AI agent works on the project later. The wiki stays on the local computer, uses markdown files, and is organized in a sqlite database. Topic search can return relevant pages, such as pages about authentication, so an agent can pull only the context it needs.

The wider pattern is clear: AI coding tools are starting to focus less on reading huge files blindly and more on finding the right project memory, code path, or shared context at the right time.