Documentation
Everything about Lifeline — install, concepts, architecture, integration, MCP, and the CLI.
Getting started →Install Lifeline, run the loop, and bootstrap an existing project. Git for reasoning, in minutes.Concepts & laws →The Entry, content-addressing, the 3 memory layers, supersession, lines vs threads and the mesh, and the 7 laws.Guide →The write policy, kinds, checkpoints and resume, lines vs threads and the mesh, budget and ranking, the Python SDK, local to cloud.Architecture →Lifeline's architecture: the deterministic event model, reducers, recall, projection, and the store-is-source cutover.Integration →Wire Lifeline into Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, and Gemini CLI via MCP — with auto-connect.MCP & remote →The MCP surface: local stdio, remote HTTP/SSE, the OAuth Resource Server, and multi-tenant cloud.CLI reference →Every Lifeline command, generated from the CLI itself: init, context, resume, checkpoint, log, recall, policy, audit, guard, lines, verify, push/pull/clone.vs alternatives →Lifeline vs ADRs, CLAUDE.md, RAG, and memory MCPs (mem0, Letta, Honcho) — honest differences, and when not to use it.Curate well →How to keep a Lifeline ledger signal not noise: good entries, granularity, supersession, and avoiding ledger rot.Teams & hosted →The hosted Lifeline hub: zero-ops MCP, shared team lines, the GitHub App, and Marketplace billing — in early access.
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