Repository-native Work, Docs, History and durable Memory for humans and AI agents — Markdown as the source of truth, with a local UI, CLI and MCP server
@illodev/workfile is a repository-native protocol for coordinating Work, Docs, History and durable project Memory between humans and software agents.
Markdown files in the repository are canonical. The CLI, HTTP API and local UI use the same core services, collection registry, index and validation rules. No exclusive state is kept in the browser or in a database.
Work, Docs, History and Memory share the common ProjectRecord index. The core, CLI, HTTP server and MCP runtime are authored in TypeScript and distributed as compiled ESM with public declarations. The local UI is precompiled and included in the package, and semantic search runs on-device through the optional @illodev/workfile-search-local workspace package.
Try the live demo — it replays this repository's own workspace: the real cards, releases, incidents and learnings of Workfile's development. Mutations work per browser session and reset on reload.
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Workfile — dogfooding: every release is planned and recorded in this repo's own .project/
Workfile records work. It does not configure agents.
The two get confused because both live next to the same repository. Ecosystem configurators — gentle-ai is a good example — install a persona, curated skills, model routing, MCP servers and review gates into the agents you already use, across many agents at once. Their question is how your agent works. Workfile's question is what was done, who holds it and on what evidence, and its answer is Markdown files that outlive the agent, the session a
From the project README.
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