Cognetivy

Cognetivy is an open source state layer for AI coding assistants that turns freeform agent sessions into structured, repeatable workflows. Developers define how an agent should work, which steps to follow, what inputs to expect and what to capture, and the agent then executes that workflow while writing its runs, events and artifacts into a local folder in the project. It is built for developers and product teams using Cursor, Claude Code, OpenClaw or any MCP compatible agent who want agent work to be inspectable and repeatable rather than lost in chat history. Its core pieces are versioned workflow files, run tracking that logs status, duration and events for every session, and schema backed collections that persist and accumulate data across runs. Cognetivy Studio is a local browser interface, started with one command, for comparing runs, browsing collected data and refining workflows. The engine itself uses no LLM and sends nothing to a cloud service; everything is stored in the project directory. Published use cases include competitor analysis, deep product research, user research synthesis, PRD writing, code review and structured BMAD development cycles. Cognetivy is released under the MIT license and is free to use. There is no paid plan or hosted tier on the website; it installs through npx. The project is maintained by an individual developer, which is worth weighing for teams that need a vendor support commitment.