Pre-compression capture + human-editable markdown tree; sub-100ms, no LLM in read path.
- Storage
- Local markdown + brv CLI (optional cloud sync)
- Retrieval
- Reads a human-editable markdown tree directly via the brv CLI — sub-100ms, no LLM in the read path.
- Self-host
- Self-host: trivial
- License
- OSS*
- Pricing
- Free local; paid cloud sync · Free + paid
- GitHub stars
- 4,885
- Last release
- 2026-05-27
- Last commit
- 2026-06-25
- First catalogued
- 2026-06-28
Strengths
- Captures decisions before context compaction
- Git-friendly markdown
- Fast, no-LLM reads
Watch out
- brv CLI dependency; manual-ish curation
Best for
- Coding agents wanting Git-like, versioned, team-synced memory
- Cursor / Claude Code / Windsurf users needing one portable memory layer across 22+ tools
Benchmark results
| Benchmark | Value | Backbone | Trust | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| locomo | 92.2 accuracy | Gemini 3 Flash (curation/judge) + Gemini 3 Pro (answer/justifier, best run) | Self-reported | ByteRover ↗ |
| locomo | 96.1 accuracy | Gemini 3 Flash (curation/query) + Gemini 3.1 Pro (justifier) | Self-reported | ByteRover team (Nguyen et al.) ↗ |
Sources
- https://www.byterover.dev/ (vendor)
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01599 (paper)
- https://github.com/campfirein/byterover-cli (vendor)
- ByteRover CLI 2.0 — Git-like context tree, sync, 22+ coding agents (vendor)
Last verified 2026-06-28 · updated by refresh-framework-cards