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The context and communication layer for coding agents

Turn any repo into an always-current map of its code, documents, history, and memory — so agents answer from structure and search instead of burning their context window on grep and file reads.
Scan a repo and ask your first questionsView on GitHub

A code map across 300+ languages, and documents in 90+ formats — one server does both jobs.

It also gives you semantic + full-text search, git history & blame, shared memory, web crawl, and agent-to-agent comms. Every answer comes back as paths, line numbers, and signatures, not whole files, so a question about your code costs a small fraction of the tokens it takes to read the source.

The operating rule: basemind first, shell/grep/git fallback

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Answer from structure

code (mode: outline) a file before you open it, code (mode: symbols) instead of grep, code (mode: references) instead of grepping call sites. Pointers, not file bodies.

Ask history directly

git (mode: recent, mode: blame_symbol, mode: touching, mode: diff_outline) — git intelligence at symbol resolution, in tens of microseconds.

Search everything

Semantic + full-text search over PDFs, Office, HTML, email, and images (OCR) — plus scraped web pages — with reranking and per-document summaries.

Coordinate agents

A shared channel for a team of agents on the same repo: rooms, inboxes, direct messages, and orchestration of many named subagents.

Install in one step

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The plugin sets up the server, helper skills, comms, and slash commands — and downloads the basemind program for you on first use. Or install the program directly with a package manager.

/plugin marketplace add Goldziher/basemind
/plugin install basemind@basemind

More hosts — Windsurf, Factory Droid, OpenCode, Kimi, Hermes, Cline, Continue, and others — plus the plain MCP server and standalone CLI paths are in the full installation guide.

Explore

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IntroductionWhat basemind is and why it exists.
QuickstartScan a repo and ask your first questions.
How it worksOne scan, then instant answers held in memory.
MCP toolsEvery tool, what it returns, and when to reach for it.
CLI referenceThe scriptable surface, at 1:1 parity with the MCP tools.
PerformanceScan speed and microsecond git-history queries.