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Honcho alternatives
Honcho by plastic-labs: Persistent cross-session memory for Codex powered by Honcho — lifecycle hooks capture each session and inject relevant context back at session start, so Codex remembers your preferences, projects, and decisions across restarts. Here are 6 plugins in our catalog that describe a similar job, with the numbers you'd check before switching.
Why you might look elsewhere
- Want active development? Agent Deck, Tree Ring Memory got a push in the last two weeks.
- Want the most-watched option? Loom has 85 stars to Honcho's 66.
- On a different tool? Loom mentions Claude Code.
6 alternatives, side by side
| Plugin | Stars | License | Last push | Packaged as |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Codex Mem Automatically capture, compress, and inject session context back into future Codex sessions. | ★ 15 | No license file | 2026-10-06 | plugin |
| Waggle Persistent graph-backed conversational memory for Codex that recalls project decisions, constraints, preferences, and outcomes across sessions. | ★ 45 | Apache-2.0 | 2026-10-30 | plugin |
| Loom Self-hosted shared long-term memory and code index (definitions, callers, change impact) for Codex, stored in ClickHouse, with lifecycle hooks that capture each session and MCP tools that save and recall decisions across sessions and teammates. | ★ 85 | Apache-2.0 | 2026-11-15 | MCP server, plugin |
| Tree Ring Memory Local-first memory lifecycle guidance for Codex agents with recall, evidence-backed lessons, privacy-safe memory capture, audit, consolidation, and explicit forgetting. | ★ 0 | MIT | 2026-11-11 | plugin |
| Agent Deck One MCP for context management: bind self-improving playbooks, MCP tools, and API keys to the session. | ★ 6 | MIT | 2026-11-13 | MCP server |
| Living Brain A shared, persistent memory layer for AI: carry the same context across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Codex, Claude Code and Cursor through MCP or an API. | ★ 6 | No license file | 2026-10-27 | MCP server |
Picked by overlap between each project's own description and Honcho's, same category first. Ordered by that overlap, not by stars or payment.
Head-to-head
Loom vs Honcho · Honcho vs Codex Mem · Honcho vs Waggle
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Data from GitHub and each project's README, checked 2026-11-15. We haven't installed or audited these, and stars measure attention, not quality. Paid placements never change this page. Spot a mistake? hello@pickaplugin.com
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