MinimalOne/lobe-forge

A second brain your AI tools share: Git-backed wikis that any AI agent can read, write, and search.
You give it sources (web pages, PDFs, notes, chat logs). Your AI turns them into linked Markdown pages and answers from them with citations. Each topic is its own wiki, called a lobe: homelab, work, family, german. Every lobe is a plain Git repository, so your knowledge stays versioned, private, and readable without any tool.
Works with the AI you already use, through the Model Context Protocol (MCP):
AI coding tools: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, Cursor, VS Code
AI chat apps: Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Claude mobile
Personal AI agents: OpenClaw, Hermes Agent
One memory, many tools. A fact one assistant saves today, another can answer from tomorrow.
Local or self-hosted. Keep lobes on your computer, or run lobe-server on a home server and reach them from every device, including your phone.
Yours. Plain Markdown in Git. Push it to any Git host, or keep it entirely offline.
## Two ways to run it
| | Local lobes | Remote lobes (self-hosted) |
| Lobes live | on your computer (~/lobes/ ) | on your server (lobe-server in Docker) |
| Connect | Claude Code plugin, or any MCP client over stdio | any MCP client over HTTPS |
| Best for | one computer, everything offline | several devices, phone access, sharing between tools |
| Guide | docs/local.md | docs/server.md |
Both use the same lobe format. A lobe can start local and move to a server later.
## Quick start
### Local lobes with Claude Code
Needs Claude Code, Git, and Python 3.10 or newer.
bash
claude plugin marketplace add MinimalOne/lobe-forge
claude plugin install lobe-forge@lobe-forge
Run /lobe-forge, give the lobe a name (for example homelab) and a purpose, and restart Claude Code. You can then say "save this to homelab" or "ask homelab how the reverse proxy is set up". The lobe also gets slash commands: /homelab-add-raw, /homelab-ingest, /homelab-ask, /homelab-lint.
To use the same local lobes from Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, or another MCP client, see Local lobes from any MCP client.
### Remote lobes with lobe-server
bash
docker run -d --name lobe-server -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 \
-e LOBEAPITOKEN=change-me -v ~/lobes:/data/lobes \
ghcr.io/minimalone/lobe-forge:latest
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user lobe-server http://127.0.0.1:8080/mcp \
--header "Authorization: Bearer change-me"
Then ask your assistant: "Create a homelab lobe on lobe-server for my server notes."