Claude is brilliant.But it forgets everythingyou talked about yesterday.Zé doesn't.
A persistent memory stack for your Claude Code. Vault, semantic search and knowledge graph working together so it never asks again what you already answered. And now it also sees images, remembers fast and tests itself.
runs locally · 3-minute install · free during beta
How many times have you explained this?
Every new Claude conversation starts from zero. You re-explain the project. You re-paste the database schema. You re-state what you already decided about the architecture. You re-point the bug it already fixed last week. Time drains into repetition. So does patience. And Claude — who's genius — starts every day as the new intern.
Memory that survives.
Three components working in sync to turn your Obsidian vault into a persistent brain your Claude can query anytime.
Your notes are the source of truth
Markdown on your machine, versioned in git, offline, yours. Zé doesn't steal anything — it just organizes what you already have.
Semantic search over everything
Embeddings of every note via sqlite-vec. Ask in natural language and Zé pulls the right snippet, even if you wrote it with different words.
Connections only a graph can see
Local Neo4j storing projects, decisions, stories and pending items as connected nodes. Multi-hop questions RAG can't answer, the graph answers in milliseconds.
It reprograms itself.
Zé isn't static. As you use it, it learns how to work better with you and your context. By week two it's a completely different beast from day one.
Abilities on demand
Zé has a skill system — specialized abilities Claude loads when needed. REST API? Pulls the API design skill. Debugging? Systematic debugging skill. Next.js? Next.js expert skill. It knows what it needs to know, right when it needs it.
Detects what's missing and goes after it
The skill autopilot detects on its own when an ability is missing for what you're doing. Searches the library, promotes the best match — or creates a brand new skill from scratch if none exists. Without you asking.
The more you use it, the smarter it gets
Every correction, every preference, every pattern from your project becomes permanent learning. Claude doesn't repeat mistakes, doesn't forget decisions, and gets progressively more tuned to your workflow. A copilot that evolves.
Now it can also...
On top of the Phase 1 foundation, Phase 2 gave Zé four new superpowers. All opt-in, all running locally on your machine, all already in the default install.
See images
MultimodalThrow a screenshot at Zé with `ze imagem indexa`. It describes via GPT-4o-mini, saves as a markdown note and indexes in RAG. From then on, semantic search finds that image by content — "the MRR drop chart from March" — without you remembering the file name.
Remembers fast
CacheLocal Redis for repeated answers. A hash of prompt + context becomes the key; the cached response comes back in milliseconds without burning a token again. Tokens saved is money saved.
Keeps attachments
StorageLocal MinIO with buckets for chat images (30-day TTL), test artifacts and vault attachments. Your files stop disappearing into chat history — they become persistent URLs Zé knows how to serve.
Tests itself
TestingRobot Framework + headless Playwright running in an isolated container. UI smoke tests become `ze testa my-story` and the result comes back summarized — without dumping 30k tokens of browser output into Claude's conversation.
Zé has a CLI. And it's got personality.
After installing, you talk to Zé from the terminal. It remembers, pulls, queries the graph, indexes images, and injects context into Claude before you even finish typing.
One command, parrot in your terminal.
Requires Node.js and Docker. If you have those, Zé downloads the rest, asks 3 questions and is live in 3 minutes. Works with any package manager.
The honest questions
Two founders. One shared frustration.
Zé didn't come out of a company or a pitch deck. It came from two people who got tired of re-explaining everything to Claude every single day and decided to fix it.
Phill Antunes
The technical force behind Zé. He had the original idea for the project and built the nervous system that makes Claude's memory actually work. An engineer with rare skills, he sleeps far less than a normal human — and uses that extra time to make the impossible look easy.
Raphael Duarte
Product builder and the one who takes Zé to the world. Works to turn Zé from a personal tool into the copilot any Brazilian developer can install in their terminal in 3 minutes.
Buy Zé some corn
Zé is free during the beta and will stay free until the beta closes. But OpenAI embeddings, servers and his electricity bill aren't. If the parrot already saved you hours of re-explaining things to Claude, send a PIX (Brazil's instant payment) for his bird food.
