Philosophy

Four choices, made once, kept forever.

Most tools ask you to move your thinking into their format. Lore is built the other way around — on things that already outlived every app that tried to replace them.

storage

Markdown is the database.

Notes are files. Folders are structure. Frontmatter is metadata. There is no export button because there is nothing to export.

history

Git is version control.

Every save is a commit. Every change has an author, a diff, and a timestamp — including the changes your AI makes.

interface

AI is the interface.

Lore ships with an MCP server, so Claude and Cursor read, search, and write your vault directly — a first-class client, not a plugin.

platform

Cloudflare is the platform.

Pages, Workers, and an index that can be deleted and rebuilt from your files at any time. Fast everywhere, cheap to run, easy to self-host.

What ships in v1

Everything a vault needs. Nothing it doesn't.

folder tree

Your repo, browsable. Keyboard navigation throughout.

editor + preview

CodeMirror editing with a live split-pane render.

[[wiki links]]

Autocomplete as you type. Unresolved links become new notes.

backlinks

Every note knows what points at it, with context.

global search

Full-text, ranked, with snippets. Under 200ms.

#tags

Inline or frontmatter. Browse everything by topic.

daily notes

⌘D opens today. Created from your template.

templates

Project, client, meeting — yours, in plain markdown.

git-native saves

Autosave commits with conflict detection built in.

command palette

⌘K for everything. The mouse is optional.

mcp server

Your vault, callable by any MCP client.

dark by default

Light mode exists. It's fine too.

AI-native

Built for AI from the first commit.

Connect Claude or Cursor to your vault's MCP server and your knowledge becomes something your tools can actually use — searched, cited, and written back as auditable commits.

# lore-mcp · tools
search_notes(query) · read_note(path) · write_note(path, content)
create_note(folder, title) · daily_note(content?) · list_backlinks(path)

> "add to my daily note: shipped the MCP server"
✓ appended to daily/2026/2026-07-29.md · commit a41f2c9
source of truth

Your Git repo

Plain markdown files, owned by you, cloneable anywhere.

engine

Lore

Workers read and write the repo; a rebuildable index powers search, tags, and links.

clients

You & your AI

The web app, Claude, Cursor, and future agents — all speaking to the same vault.

Delete Lore tomorrow. Keep everything.

Your vault is a folder of markdown files in a repo you control. Lore earns its place by being useful — never by holding your knowledge hostage.

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