Edith Second Brain runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 22 Sep 2026.
Claude distils its past sessions into linked Markdown notes on disk and searches them later.
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Edith Second Brain every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
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