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The team second brain
On real-time collaboration, local-first markdown, open source, and giving your AI a second brain.
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Research says a model's context belongs in a file. Keep one your team can open
Context Language Models let a model edit its context as a file, and beat every external harness. That file is scratch. The durable one is a note you own.
Oct 6, 2026 · 7 min readBefore you give an agent write access, take a checkpoint
BCG found 42% of companies expect agents to decide without approval by 2030 and 5% have the controls. The first thing an autonomous agent rewrites is your docs.
Oct 5, 2026 · 7 min readMods made Claude Code's instruction loader replaceable. Your team's conventions never fitted one repo
Anthropic turned Claude Code's AGENTS.md loader into a replaceable mod on 1 October 2026. The question underneath it: where should a team's instructions live?
Oct 5, 2026 · 8 min readGemini 4 Argon: benchmarks, price, release date, and where a million tokens of output lands
Gemini 4 Argon benchmarks, price ($2/$10 per million tokens to 30 Nov), who can use it since the 13 October release, and what 1M tokens of output means.
Oct 5, 2026 · 8 min readShared agent memory shipped at DevDay. The open question is whose disk it is on
OpenAI shipped dots and ChatGPT Space at DevDay 2026. Shared agent memory is a product category now. The open question is whose disk the files sit on.
Oct 4, 2026 · 7 min readWindsurf is Devin Desktop now. The project memory problem came with it
Windsurf became Devin Desktop in June 2026. Where its MCP config actually lives, and how to point it at a Baalda vault your whole team can edit.
Oct 4, 2026 · 10 min readZed's context servers can reach the notes your whole team is editing
Zed made code editing multiplayer and left the notes out of it. How to add a Baalda vault as a context server so the agent reads and writes shared markdown.
Oct 2, 2026 · 9 min readGoose forgets the middle of a long session. Its memory belongs in a vault
Goose memory, from .goosehints to the Memory extension, stays on one machine and compaction drops the rest. How to give it a shared markdown vault over MCP.
Oct 1, 2026 · 9 min readA memory bank Cline can reach from any repo
Cline reads a memory-bank folder at the start of every task. That folder lives in one repo. How to put it in a vault the whole team writes, over MCP.
Sep 30, 2026 · 8 min readThe Claude Desktop second brain, without touching a config file
Most guides tell you to edit claude_desktop_config.json. For a vault your team shares that is the wrong route. The connector path, and its real limits.
Sep 29, 2026 · 6 min readClaude Code's second brain is a folder, not an integration
Claude Code already edits files on your disk, so a local vault needs no MCP at all. When you do need the endpoint, and how to wire it up correctly.
Sep 28, 2026 · 7 min readCursor as a second brain: the notes that explain your repo
Cursor is an MCP client and Baalda is an MCP server. How to connect them so the agent that knows your code can also reach the decisions behind it.
Sep 26, 2026 · 6 min readStart your team’s brain
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