familiar 1.0.0 — first public release

A project-memory and workflow layer that makes AI agents instantly familiar with your work, progress, and decisions.

familiar is a plain folder. Rename it to your project, open your AI coding agent inside it, and every session starts from the project's own record (what it is, what has been decided, what is open, and where each fact came from) instead of from nothing. Everything is Markdown and a few small scripts: no account, no server, nothing stored outside the folder.

Download

• familiar-workspace-1.0.0.zip: the workspace. Unzip it, give the folder your project's name, and open your agent inside it. Start with /ili-project-status check-in.
• familiar-demo-1.0.0.zip (optional): a fictional project after a few weeks of use, so you can see what a living project looks like and ask it questions.

Guide, skills quick reference and manual: https://familiar-md.github.io/familiar/

What is in it

• Eight skills: project status, ingest, deliverable briefs, drafting, save, handoff, online research and settings.
• Project memory with one home per fact: status, tasks, timeline, meetings, decisions and handoffs.
• Source ingest with a page or section locator on every claim.
• Word, PowerPoint and Excel output, versioned and never overwritten.
• An in-place updater and a preflight check that prints the fix for each problem.
• An open extension contract for adding your own specialty.

Works with

Built and tested with Claude Code. It follows the open AGENTS.md and agent skills conventions and carries the files Codex and Gemini CLI look for. Each agent needs its own account; the agent you open in the folder sends what it reads to its own provider, under that provider's terms.

Also released

familiar-hub (one view across all your projects), familiar-hooks (optional session titles and guards) and familiar-template (a starter for your own extension).

Free and open source under Apache 2.0.