mozg

We are building one memory for the whole species. Everything anyone wrote down goes in; what comes out is fluent, instant, and detached from every person it came from. Three things follow from that shape, and none of them is a bug:

• it dissolves the author — it can work in your manner and cannot tell you your name;
• it does not know your particular world — not the decision your team made in March;
• it cannot say where it stops — what it learned and what it is inventing sound identical.

It knows what we know. It cannot tell you who taught it.

mozg is the opposite architecture: not one memory that swallows everything, but many, each of which still belongs to someone — examined, honest about its edge, and metered. One mechanism holds it together:

Knowledge must be measured.

[Terminal: connecting mozg to Claude Code, then an agent answering an Expo question from the brain with a cited source and exam score]

The loop

flowchart LR    A[one docs URL] --> B[crawler<br/>github tree · llms.txt · sitemap]    B --> C[atomic notes<br/>+ embeddings]    C --> D{{the exam<br/>~30 questions from the goal}}    D -->|score + failed questions| E[focused re-read<br/>chases the gaps]    E --> C    F[agents querying over MCP] -->|zero-hit searches| D    F -->|corrections| G[owner review] --> C    F -->|proposals from readers| G

• The exam is the product. The brain's goal becomes control questions, re-sat after every ingest. Trained 92% is a fact, not a claim — and the failures are listed publicly, so agents are told the gaps before they search. Anti-bluff questions verify it refuses what it doesn't know.
• Zero-context search. Retrieval is server-side (hybrid + reranker). A brain can hold 3,000 notes; an answer costs the three it needed.
• Readers contribute, and cannot corrupt. An agent that works something out on a brain it only reads can hand it back — it arrives as a proposal: pending, attributed, invisible to search and absent from the exam until the owner takes it. Contribution without the power to break anything. Zero-hit searches become exam questions on their own.
• The baton between sessions. brain_handoff carries working state to the next session — this agent tomorrow, or a different tool entirely. A PreCompact hook reminds an agent to leave one at the moment context is about to be lost.
• learn. Any brain doubles as a spaced-repetition course for humans at learn.mozg.sh — read → recall → quiz, streaks, a certificate at 80%, and a scoreboard against your own agent.
• Injection-hardened. Notes are scanned for credential leaks, PII and prompt-injection language; proposals from strangers are scanned again at the door they arrive through; third-party notes reach agents framed as data, not instructions; AI training crawlers are refused in robots.txt.

Styles: the other kind of brain

A brain can hold facts — or a way of working. A style brain is read by a different extractor entirely: not "what is depicted" but "what would I have to do to draw the next one", and it insists on measurements. Hex values and which one dominates. Outline weight, and whether it varies along a stroke. How shading is achieved, and at what density. The nevers — because anyone can copy a palette, and what gives an imitation away is the gradient the original would never use.

[Typing a prompt into a style's page on gallery.mozg.sh and getting an illustration back in that artist's style]

That is the answer to style theft that pays the artist. Cloaking tools promised to make styles untrainable and each has been broken within months. The other road: the style becomes a licensed, exam-scored product. A buyer's own agents read the rules over MCP, or they generate right on gallery.mozg.sh — 25¢ an image, 10¢ of it to the artist, every time. Unlike a fine-tune on somebody's disk, access is revocable: a LoRA in the wild is forever, a licence is not.

Run your own, in one command

git clone https://github.com/egorfedorov/mozg.git && cd mozgcp .env.selfhost.example .env     # fill ANTHROPIC_API_KEY + BETTER_AUTH_SECRETdocker compose -f docker-compose.selfhost.yml up

Postgres with pgvector, the embedder, the app and the worker come up together; the schema migrates itself before the app starts. Open http://localhost:3300, create an account, paste a docs URL.

First boot downloads ~2.2 GB of embedding weights into a volume — that is the slow part, and it happens once. Full operational detail, including production deploys behind nginx, lives in docs/SELFHOST.md.

Cloud, or your own metal

The deal is honest: building brains spends model tokens. On the cloud you either pay a plan (we spend), set your own API key in settings (you spend), or teach through a Claude Code subscription with the plugin's /mozg:train.

What an agent gets

Fourteen MCP tools. The descriptions tell it when to reach for each, which is the difference between a brain that gets used and one that sits there.

brain_list · brain_brief · brain_search · brain_read · brain_verify · brain_handoff · brain_write · brain_write_batch · brain_feedback · brain_create · brain_add_source · brain_refresh · library_add · library_remove

The Claude Code plugin adds slash commands and two offline hooks — one names your shelf at session start, one reminds you to leave a baton before the context is compacted.

Stack

Next.js 16 · Postgres 14 + pgvector (HNSW) · pg-boss (queue in Postgres) · better-auth · bge-m3 embeddings + bge-reranker (self-hosted FastAPI) · Playwright render service for JS-shell docs sites · esbuild-bundled worker. 211 tests, CI on every push, public status page.

The manifesto

This is built by one person from the Sakha Republic — three million square kilometres, a million people, and the coldest inhabited places on earth. About 450,000 people speak Sakha. Ask any frontier model something in it and watch: total confidence, and wrong, because there was never enough of us online to be worth learning properly.

Not enough of us to be learned. Enough of us to teach.

That is where most of the world already stands — not only languages, but trades, regions, and the part of every craft that lives in people rather than in indexed pages. What is not in the training data does not exist to the machine, and the machine is fast becoming how everything gets looked up.

The alternative to being scraped is not being ignored. It is being licensed.

A confident wrong answer is worse than silence, and nearly everything built so far is optimised to produce one.

Read the whole thing → — what I am actually claiming, in five lines, and why a knowledge base should have to sit an exam.

Contributing

Bug reports with reproduction beat everything; brain_feedback reports from real use beat those. Small PRs welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md. New catalogue packs are data entries, not code.

License

AGPL-3.0. Run it, change it, self-host it; host it for others and your changes stay open. The hosted cloud at mozg.sh sells convenience and inference — never locks.