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Cody CLI Now Remembers Your Project — Automatically
PLATFORM UPDATESSeptember 11, 2026· 3 min read

Cody CLI Now Remembers Your Project — Automatically

By Toby Morning
## Who this is for Developers using Cody CLI — AINative Studio's terminal-based AI coding assistant — on a real, ongoing codebase with a team, not a one-off script. If you've ever re-explained the same architecture decision to an AI assistant three sessions in a row, or watched a scheduled job run with zero awareness of what your team already decided, this is for you. ## What shipped As of today, Cody CLI automatically builds and recalls project memory — no command to learn, no setup step. Two things happen without you doing anything: - **While you work**, Cody recalls relevant context from your project's memory and brings it into the conversation, using semantic search combined with a knowledge graph — not just keyword matching. - **When a session ends**, Cody extracts the facts and decisions worth keeping — "we use Bun, not Node," "the auth service depends on the billing service" — and stores them, including as entries in a real knowledge graph of how the pieces of your system relate to each other, not just a flat list of notes. That memory lives in your project, not on your laptop, so it's shared: a teammate's session picks up context your session left behind. Alongside this, **Code Triggers now actually execute.** A trigger is a prompt that runs against your repo on a schedule or on demand, without a CLI session open — point it at a repo and branch, give it a GitHub token, and it spins up a real agent to do the work: check for outdated dependencies, review code quality, or whatever recurring task you'd otherwise have to remember to kick off yourself. Each run gets the same automatic memory as a live session — it recalls relevant project context before starting and writes a summary back when it's done, so a trigger running unattended at 3am has the same project knowledge your last session did. Runs bill to your own account, using your own GitHub token, so you're always in control of what a trigger can touch. ## When Live in production now (September 2026), available to every Cody CLI user — no opt-in required. If you'd rather not have Cody store project memory automatically, you can turn it off (see "Get it" below). ## Where it comes from Both features are built on **ZeroMemory**, AINative's memory API — the same system you can call directly if you're building your own AI agents. `remember` and `recall` handle storage and semantic search; `relate` and `graph/{entity_id}` let you build and query a real knowledge graph of how the things in your system relate to each other. It's the same infrastructure, not a simplified version built just for Cody — so what you see in Cody CLI is a preview of what you can build with the API yourself. ## Get it **New to Cody CLI?** ```bash npm install -g @ainative/cody-cli cody ``` No account, no email, no API key required — a temporary token is auto-provisioned on first run and you get free-tier models instantly. See the [Getting Started guide](/docs/cody-cli/getting-started) for npx, curl, and Homebrew install options. **Already have it installed?** Update to get this release: ```bash npm update -g @ainative/cody-cli ``` Automatic project memory works immediately after updating — nothing to configure. To turn it off, set `CODY_DISABLE_AUTO_MEMORY=1`, pass `--bare`, or disable `autoMemoryEnabled` in your settings. ## Learn more - **Cody CLI memory docs**: /docs/cody-cli/memory - **Code Triggers docs**: /docs/cody-cli/code-triggers - **Build your own on ZeroMemory**: /docs/zeromemory/api-reference
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