"The mind is like a parachute—it doesn't work if it's not open."
— Frank Zappa
Parachute
A self-hostable ecosystem for your knowledge
Open source · Built on MCP · Available now
bun add -g @openparachute/cli && parachute install vault
Requires Bun. One command installs the CLI, sets up a vault, and registers it with Claude Code. Add Notes, Scribe, and more the same way. View on GitHub →
An open knowledge layer
Every AI you use stores your context as one flat text file. Whatever you said yesterday, your AI doesn't really remember. And to give it context, you have to talk to it—there's no way to just think and have it become context.
Parachute is a different shape: a personal knowledge graph organized around notes, tags, and links, accessible to any AI via MCP—the open standard for connecting AI to tools. You spin up a vault, give any AI a link, and that's the whole setup. Whatever AI you already use—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—Parachute makes it smarter. And when you want a human interface, Notes is a browser-based companion that talks to the same vault.
Where things stand
Parachute Vault
AvailableThe knowledge graph itself. Self-hosted, Bun-based, SQLite-backed. Exposed over both MCP (for AI) and a REST API (for humans and tools). Notes, tags, wikilinks, attachments, voice-memo transcripts, full-text and graph queries. Obsidian import/export. Each vault is its own database—your data, your machine, fully portable.
Parachute Notes
AvailableA browser-based companion for your vault. Installable PWA: works offline, syncs when you reconnect. Write, link, tag, search, graph-browse—and capture voice memos that auto-transcribe (when Scribe is installed). Point it at any vault URL, do a one-time OAuth handshake, and it's your local-first note-taking app. Replaces the earlier Parachute Daily—same workflow, now on every device with a browser.
Parachute Cloud
Coming SoonThe done-for-you hosted path: cloud-managed vault, multi-device sync, optional cloud transcription and AI reflections, no server to run. Self-hosting the ecosystem stays free forever—Cloud is for people who'd rather we run it.
Also in the ecosystem: Scribe (on-device audio transcription), Channel (messaging gateway for Claude Code), and the CLI that coordinates everything. Install any of them with parachute install <service>.
How it works
One graph. One address (a single HTTPS URL via Tailscale or your own domain). Every tool, human or AI, spoken to through the same APIs. Today: Vault, Notes, Scribe, and the CLI are live. Cloud is next.
Principles
- Local-first. Your data lives on your machine in a SQLite database. If we disappeared tomorrow, your data would still be there—portable, exportable, entirely yours.
- Open standard. Built on MCP. Works with whatever AI you already use, and whatever you use next. We're not tied to a single model.
- Open source as trust. The only way to deserve trust with personal thinking is transparency. You can read every line of code that touches your notes.
- Voice-first. Talking is often more natural than typing. We meet people where their thinking actually happens—on walks, in the car, away from the desk.
A knowledge layer for humans and AI
Parachute is open source and available now. Install the CLI, spin up a vault, point your AI at it, open Notes in a browser, and start building memory.
bun add -g @openparachute/cli && parachute install vault