Vault is a local-first notes and knowledge app. Everything you save - notes, highlights, PDFs, sketches, tasks - stays as plain Markdown on your own disk and compounds into private, reusable context for the AI of your choice. Nothing leaves your machine until you say so.
This is the first public release.
Highlights
- Progressive context - notes, highlights, and documents compound into reusable AI context; you choose what's shared.
- Local-first and private - plain Markdown files, zero telemetry, no unsolicited network requests.
- Bring your own model - OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini, or fully offline with Ollama / LM Studio. Keys stored in the OS keychain.
- CLI agents with vault context - run Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI agents from an integrated terminal.
- More than notes - highlight PDFs into Markdown, view/edit CSV and JSON, convert Box
.boxnote, sketch in embedded Excalidraw, and export to Word / HTML / PDF. - Built to last - stable UUIDv7 identity survives renames, moves, and sync;
[[WikiLinks]]connect everything.
Install (macOS)
Download vault-latest.dmg below, open it, and drag Vault to Applications. The build is unsigned, so on first launch right-click the app and choose Open to bypass Gatekeeper.
Platform
macOS only for this release. Windows and Linux are not yet built or verified.
See the README for full documentation.