# Bad Influence story: Eight open-source 'second brain' repos for AI agent memory, including gbrain

Active · 2 articles · 1 source · First reported 11-08 09:14. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/af533ea0-515b-4421-955f-faac204be1e1

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Latest update (11-08 15:23): Eight open-source "second brain" repos for AI agent memory, including Garry Tan's gbrain

Overview: A viral X post lists eight open-source "second brain" repositories for storing knowledge and sharing memory across AI agents, and names gbrain by Garry Tan as one of them. The post says gbrain keeps a source for every fact and shares one memory across agents.

Other entries named in the post include Andrej Karpathy's LLM wiki idea file, ai-memory for handing work between Claude Code and Codex in plain markdown, and baalda, a team markdown memory that people and agents edit together. The two reports describe the list differently. The earlier report describes the seven others only briefly, while the later one lists plain markdown and Obsidian memory handoff, Telegram voice notes, and nightly conversion of repeated corrections into agent rules. Neither report includes independent testing of the repositories.

Coverage timeline (newest first):
1. 11-08 15:23 · X search: AI open-source releases · [Eight open-source "second brain" repos for AI agent memory, including Garry Tan's gbrain](https://badinfluence.news/items/u6xznvzu06jq3ts20mq6pvajm)
2. 11-08 09:14 · X search: AI open-source releases · [Eight open-source "second brain" repos for AI agents, including Garry Tan's gbrain](https://badinfluence.news/items/jgbahwpufhy3qyi80rmx15zdi)
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