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Welcome to Quaid

How to use these docs, and where to start whether you're a developer, an operator, or an agent.

Quaid is a personal knowledge memory that lives in a single file. It combines SQLite, FTS5, and local vector embeddings behind a thin CLI and an MCP server, so the same memory serves a human at the terminal and an agent over JSON-RPC.

These docs are organized in four lanes — Tutorials to learn, How-to guides to solve problems, Explanation to understand, and Reference to look things up — plus a dedicated For agents track that curates the same material from an agent’s perspective.

Pick a path

I want to try it now

Run the install command, build your first memory, and ask it a question — about ten minutes from cold start.

Install Quaid →

I'm wiring this into Claude Code

Connect a running memory to any MCP client over stdio. No keys, no proxy.

Connect Claude Code →

I want to look something up

Every CLI command, every MCP tool, every config knob — in one scannable place.

Open the Reference →

I'm building an agent on top

Tool catalog, skill workflows, and the sensitivity contract that governs what an agent may surface.

Agent quickstart →

How these docs are structured

Tutorials are end-to-end lessons. Follow them in order; they assume nothing.
How-to guides are recipes. Each one solves a single problem and links out to the deeper material when you want it.
Explanation essays cover the design — the page model, hybrid search, the skills system, and the privacy posture.
Reference is exhaustive and dry. Use search; arrive, look, leave.
For agents mirrors the rest of the site but is shaped for an autonomous reader.

Conventions

Code blocks marked bash are real commands you can run. They assume quaid is on your PATH and ~/memory.db exists, unless stated otherwise.
The label (Unix) next to a feature means it ships on macOS and Linux today; Windows parity for that surface is on the roadmap.
Where docs say “your memory” we mean the SQLite file (memory.db) — there is one per project, fully portable, and safe to copy.

Ready to begin?

Ten minutes to a working memory, or a five-minute read on why we built it this way.

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