| FMRS | 72 / 100 · B | 79 / 100 · B |
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| Reliability | 11 / 20 | 12 / 20 |
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| Security and permissions | 14 / 20 | 18 / 20 |
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| Maintenance | 15 / 20 | 16 / 20 |
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| Documentation | 18 / 20 | 18 / 20 |
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| Setup experience | 14 / 20 | 15 / 20 |
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| Best for | - Developers who run several coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot CLI, OpenClaw, opencode, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, Kimi Code, Zed and more) and want them to share one history
- Users who want memory to stay entirely local, with no LLM or embedding key required for default search
- Engineers who need to reach back into months-old sessions to reuse prior fixes and decisions
| - Engineering teams scaling AI coding agents while controlling spend
- Platform teams that need auditable, rollback-aware agent execution records
- Organizations using multiple agents (Claude, Codex, Gemini) under one governed flow
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| Not for | - Users looking for a hosted or cloud knowledge base rather than local session history
- Users unwilling to send (redacted, truncated) indexed text to a remote embedding endpoint, unless they configure a local Ollama or LM Studio runtime
- Organizations that need a managed, multi-tenant, centrally administered memory service
- Users expecting semantic recall with zero configuration, since it requires setting DEJA_EMBED_URL and related variables explicitly
| - Developers who just want a simple code-completion helper without run governance
- Teams unwilling to accept local JSONL run records with HMAC signing
- Environments without a supported adapter (Claude/Codex/Gemini CLIs, direct provider, or verifier-only)
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| Required permissions | - Reads the session-history directories of the agents on this machine (for example Claude Code's `~/.claude/projects`, Codex's `~/.codex/sessions`, Cursor's state.vscdb)
- Writes a local inverted index and vector sidecar (.vectors.bin) under `~/.cache/deja`
- `deja install` writes user-level guidance files (or a marked block inside them) for each harness it detects; `--no-guidance` opts out
- Some harness parsers rely on local tooling: Cursor, Grok Build, Hermes, opencode, Crush and Zed need sqlite3; DeepSeek Harness and Zed need zstd
- Network access is used only by `deja update`, `deja sync ssh`, and the version check in `deja doctor`; a remote endpoint receives redacted indexed text only after DEJA_EMBED_URL is configured
| - Read/write access to the configured repo root (writable scope restrictable via --allow-path/--deny-path)
- Ability to invoke the chosen agent CLI (Claude/Codex/Gemini, etc.) and its underlying model account
- Local disk writes for run records, receipts, and share outputs (share/run-receipt., etc.)
- Execution of user-configured verifier commands (e.g. npm test)
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| Risks and side effects | - Redaction is pattern matching, not secret detection: a shape it does not recognize can pass through into digests, share output or sync exports
- Secrets already present in the original harness files stay in those files; deja-vu does not modify the sources
- With a remote embedding endpoint configured, redacted indexed text (truncated to about 2k characters) leaves the machine; Ollama or LM Studio keeps embedding local
- `deja forget` removes sessions from a rebuilt index and writes tombstones, but does not delete the underlying harness files
- Session formats vary per harness and can change across versions, affecting parser completeness
| - Verifier commands are executed; poorly chosen verifier commands carry security risk despite preflight policy checks
- Cost and token figures may be estimates (labeled with provenance) and should not be treated as settled accounting
- Receipt integrity must be verified before use as trustworthy evidence; missing rollback evidence is flagged as EVIDENCE_BOUNDARY
- Policy defaults come from martin.config.yaml and can be overridden by CLI flags; misconfiguration can loosen safety boundaries
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| Supported clients | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot CLI, VS Code Copilot Chat, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, OpenCode, Zed, Cline, Goose, Kimi Code, OpenClaw, Roo Code, Continue, Crush, aider | Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Continue |
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| Tools | 1 | 0 |
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