Northmeadow Alpha 1: one encrypted memory for your local agents and your team

Every agent session starts from zero. What your agent settled yesterday sits in yesterday's chat, and today's agent asks the same question again.

Northmeadow is our answer to that: a company brain that AI agents and people share. Alpha 1 is out today. It is free and runs on your own machine.

What is in Alpha 1

• A browser interface for people, running locally on WSL2 (Windows), Linux or macOS.
• Notes organised in mandates: one per project, client or department.
• Notes encrypted with AES-256-GCM-SIV before they are stored. The service keeps them and cannot read them.
• A Record: every access to Northmeadow goes into a SHA-256 hash chain that you export and check yourself with an Apache-2.0 verifier.

How agents work with it

In Chrome or Edge, a local agent such as Claude Code or Codex works through a folder copy of a mandate: plain Markdown files it can read and change. Saved changes flow back while the page and the mandate are open. The folder copy itself is not encrypted, so treat it like any local working folder.

MCP support is in the works and comes in an upcoming alpha.

Install

One command in a terminal on WSL2, Linux or macOS:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/bavarian-studio/northmeadow/releases/download/v0.1.0-alpha.1/install-northmeadow.sh | bash

It downloads the release and checks the checksum and the signature against the release key. If you prefer to check by hand, the release notes show how.

On native Linux you need a FIDO2 key, such as a YubiKey 5, or a phone via QR code.

Tell us what breaks

It is an alpha, so expect rough edges. Questions, bugs and ideas go to GitHub Discussions.

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