AI-Native Developer Tools

Tools that Remember
for the Agentic Era

Give your AI agents persistent, structured memory. Graph traversal meets vector search, powered by HelixDB.

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Built for Everyone

Whether you're an AI agent, a developer, or part of a team—Ixchel adapts to your workflow.

Context-aware AI assistants

Give your AI agents the memory they deserve. Structured JSON output, semantic search, and full context retrieval.

--json output on all commands
Semantic search for intelligent retrieval
Token-aware context with ixchel context <id>

$ ixchel context iss-a1b2c3 --json
{
  "id": "iss-a1b2c3",
  "title": "Add OAuth2 authentication",
  "status": "in_progress",
  "blocks": ["iss-d4e5f6"],
  "related": ["iss-g7h8i9"],
  "embedding_similarity": 0.94
}

How It Works

A simple architecture that keeps your data in git while enabling powerful queries.

Markdown Files

Human-readable, git-tracked

.ixchel/issues/*.md

HelixDB Index

Graph + Vector + BM25

Rebuilds from source

Smart Queries

Semantic + keyword search

ixchel search "..."

Delete the database? No problem. Run ixchel sync and it rebuilds from your Markdown files.

Core Principles

Git-First

Data stored in human-readable Markdown, YAML, and JSONL. Your repo is the source of truth.

Offline-First

Full functionality without network. Local embeddings via fastembed means no cloud dependencies.

Graph Intelligence

Traverse relationships between entities. Navigate your codebase structure naturally.

Hybrid Search

Combine vector semantic search with traditional BM25 keyword matching for best results.

Quick Start

terminal

# Install
cargo install --path apps/ix-cli

# Initialize in your project
ixchel init

# Create an issue
ixchel create issue "Add user authentication"

# Search semantically
ixchel search "how to handle auth"

Full installation guide

The Toolkit

Specialized tools composing via standard interfaces

MVP

ixchel

Git-first knowledge weaving system. Canonical Markdown artifacts + semantic search over your project memory.

Planned

ideas

Future tools and experiments are tracked as Ixchel ideas under .ixchel/ideas/ (git-first Markdown).

Standing on Giants' Shoulders

Inspired by brilliant projects in the AI tooling ecosystem

beads

Steve Yegge

swarm-tools

Joel Hooks

dots

Joel Reymont

.context

Andre Figueira

See all acknowledgments

Tools that Remember for the Agentic Era