NO RUNNING DAEMON.
Vagus starts, loads local indexes and models, returns evidence, and exits. No background watcher, hosted account, or cloud round trip.
resident services: 0
01 // AFFERENT NERVE
VAGUS_
One fast binary for capture, PARA, and hybrid recall over a folder you already own.
CORE REFLEXES
FILES FIRST.
INDEX SECOND.
PLAIN PARA.
00-Inbox / 10-Projects / 20-Areas / 30-Resources / 40-Archive. Edit with Vim, Obsidian, Finder, or anything that reads text.
source format: .md
WORDS + MEANING.
Tantivy BM25 catches identifiers. EmbeddingGemma catches paraphrases. Reciprocal Rank Fusion preserves both retrieval paths.
fusion: RRF k=60
MULTI-MAC // iCLOUD HANDOFF
SYNC THE AXONS.
REBUILD THE REFLEX.
vagus init --icloud places the vault in Apple's iCloud Drive and keeps a friendly ~/brain symlink. Apple carries only Markdown; each Mac owns a local, rebuildable index and model cache.
After a week away, force-refresh the filesystem window that may have changed while still reconciling new and deleted notes globally.
$ vagus reindex --since=7dOlder embeddings survive. Recent mtimes are re-read. Local usage counters remain.
MAC_A~/brainlocal index
50.5 MiB
50.5 MiB
Markdown← iCLOUD →Apple auto-sync
MAC_B~/brainlocal index
rebuild here
rebuild here
ASSISTED PARA
THE AGENT PROPOSES.
YOU APPROVE.
A SOTA harness such as pi, Codex CLI, or Claude Code can turn a finished ticket into durable Markdown, ask vagus file --suggest --json for likely PARA homes, and combine those recommendations with live repository context before an approved move.
Why do exact words and remembered meaning both survive?
03 // how so smart? →