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Loom alternatives
Loom by ClickHouse: 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. Here are 8 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? Joxo, Tree Ring Memory got a push in the last two weeks.
8 alternatives, side by side
| Plugin | Stars | License | Last push | Packaged as |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honcho 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. | ★ 66 | MIT | 2026-09-01 | 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 |
| Codex Mem Automatically capture, compress, and inject session context back into future Codex sessions. | ★ 15 | No license file | 2026-10-06 | plugin |
| Joxo Setup skill that joins Codex to a team's shared Joxo project, where teammates' coding agents share one task board, decisions and handoffs. | ★ 57 | No license file | 2026-11-12 | plugin, skills |
| 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 |
| GCF Proxy Save 71% on MCP tool call tokens by wrapping any server with GCF encoding, with session stats hook and setup skill. | ★ 3 | Apache-2.0 | 2026-09-23 | MCP server, plugin, skills |
| TokenChronicle Local-first Codex work journal that automatically archives sessions for private search, audit, usage analytics, and long-term memory continuity without recurring model-token cost. | ★ 0 | No license file | 2026-09-10 | plugin |
| memtomem Markdown-first long-term memory for Codex that searches, recalls, saves and indexes project notes, and resumes work from a handoff another session or agent wrote. | ★ 24 | Apache-2.0 | 2026-11-15 | MCP server |
Picked by overlap between each project's own description and Loom's, same category first. Ordered by that overlap, not by stars or payment.
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