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7/27/2026
The original title is "I built a memory engine for AI agents. No cloud required."
Original: I built a memory engine for AI agents. No cloud required.
Short summary
Uteke is a local-first semantic memory engine for AI agents, written in Rust as a single binary with no cloud or API keys required. It combines a local embedding model for vector search with SQLite FTS5 for full-text search, merging results via Reciprocal Rank Fusion in ~45ms. Apache 2.0 licensed, with 148 GitHub stars and ~5ms vector recall at 10K entries.
- •Single Rust binary combining local vector search and SQLite FTS5 for semantic memory retrieval
- •~45ms full pipeline latency; data stays local at ~/.codecora/uteke/
- •Apache 2.0 licensed, installable via curl, Homebrew, or cargo
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