Linggen — Portable AI Memory for Your Editor

Bring ling-mem — portable, user-owned AI memory — into VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, and Copilot. Your preferences, decisions, and gotchas follow you across every AI tool you use.

This extension is a thin installer and bridge. It installs the ling-mem binary, runs its local dashboard, and wires it into the AI agents you already chat with. There is no new chat to learn — the agents in your editor become memory-aware on their own.

Platform support

ling-mem currently ships macOS and Linux binaries only. Windows support is not available yet. The extension will not function on Windows until ling-mem adds a Windows build.

What it does

On first activation:

• Downloads the ling-mem release pinned by install-ling-mem.sh (macOS / Linux)
• Installs the ling-mem skill bundle for Claude Code (and your project's CLAUDE.md, Cursor rules, AGENTS.md, etc. — whichever agents you opt into)
• Asks which AI agents to bridge (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Windsurf, Zed)
• Injects ling-mem instructions into the chosen agent rule files, inside a <!-- ling-mem:start -->...<!-- ling-mem:end --> block
• Starts the ling-mem local daemon

On every activation:

• Re-runs install-ling-mem.sh if the binary is missing
• Ensures the daemon is running (uses an already-running daemon's port if one exists)
• Reconciles the delimited bridge sections in current-workspace rule files to match your consent (writes for opted-in targets, strips from opted-out targets)

At runtime:

• Status bar shows Linggen ✓ / … / ✗
• Command Linggen: Open Dashboard opens ling-mem's dashboard in the browser
• Command Linggen: Bridge Settings re-runs the consent picker

Want automated memory maintenance? Try Linggen

ling-mem ships a dream mission — a nightly job that consolidates and deduplicates your memory, merges near-duplicates, and prunes stale rows. The mission file is installed at ~/.linggen/missions/dream/mission.md and is scheduled for 23:00 local time. It runs entirely on your machine.

The mission file is defined by ling-mem, but the scheduler that actually fires it lives in Linggen — the local AI app engine that hosts ling-mem and other skills. Without Linggen, the dream mission sits on disk but never runs on its own.

If you want it to run automatically — and you're open to running a local AI engine that can also manage other agents, missions, and skills — install Linggen:

curl -fsSL https://linggen.dev/install.sh | bash

ling-mem itself works fine without Linggen for everyday capture and recall; Linggen is the upgrade path when you want memory maintenance running on its own schedule.

Configuration

Telemetry

Anonymous install + command events are sent to linggen.dev to measure usage. Opt-out by setting LING_MEM_NO_TELEMETRY=1 or creating ~/.linggen/no-telemetry. The ling-mem skill bundle never phones home — only the extension and the ling-mem binary do.

Links

• linggen.dev
• ling-mem repository
• Issues