The context and communication layer for coding agents

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

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

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

Claude Code

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

Codex

codex plugin marketplace add Goldziher/basemind
codex plugin add basemind@basemind

Cursor

/add-plugin basemind

Gemini CLI

gemini extensions install https://github.com/Goldziher/basemind

Copilot CLI

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

Pi

pnpm add -g basemind
pi install git:github.com/Goldziher/basemind

Loads ten skills and a native extension for session context. Pi uses the CLI through its shell tool; no MCP bridge is bundled. The next release adds these resources to basemind-opencode on npm. See Pi installation for details.

Homebrew

brew install Goldziher/tap/basemind

npm

pnpm add -g basemind

pip

pip install 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

IntroductionWhat basemind is and why it exists.

QuickstartScan a repo and ask your first questions.

How it worksOne scan, then fast answers from a daemon-held index.

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, query latency and memory bounds.