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garrytan/gbrain

garrytan/gbrain is a developer tool that RepoRadar is tracking in its Radar section, currently rated Gold tier with a 'try now' verdict. Its strongest signal is workflow potential, scored 9.8 out of 10.

Score8.7
Popularity1.0
Riskconditional
TierGold
Score breakdown
Usefulness9.0
Novelty9.0
Momentum9.0
Maturity6.8
Open-source/build8.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential9.8
Setup ease6.4

Popularity is tracked separately. Support, ads, sponsorships, and tips never affect these signals.

Why it matters

Useful for founders, operators, and heavy agent users who want a persistent memory layer with actual synthesis and graph traversal instead of another vector-search wrapper that forgets everything outside the current chat.

Who should use it

Founders building a company brain or institutional memory layer Power users who want Claude Code or Codex to retain and query long-lived context beyond one repo Agent-runtime builders studying graph plus synthesis memory designs instead of vector-only recall Teams evaluating whether a Bun-first self-hosted memory daemon is practical before buying a hosted product

Who should skip it

Consider garrytan/gbrain lower priority if you already have a working solution in this category.

About this signal

garrytan/gbrain is tracked by RepoRadar as a developer tool in the Radar section. First seen 2026-07-01; the source record was last checked on 2026-07-01. The current verdict is 'try now' with a Gold tier and moderate setup difficulty. garrytan/gbrain leads on workflow potential (9.8) and practical usefulness (9.0); its lowest signal is setup ease (6.4), so factor that in before investing setup time. This page summarizes the public evidence on the linked source page and states where additional review is still needed.

How this item is evaluated

The garrytan/gbrain record combines a 8.7/10 composite score with separate popularity (1.0), risk (conditional), and setup (moderate) signals. See the scoring methodology for the current weights and evidence definitions.

Putting this into practice? Read How to evaluate an AI tool before you adopt it for the checklist behind this score.

Risk explanation

It is designed to ingest notes, meetings, people, company records, and other long-lived context into one memory store, so first evaluation should start with a narrow test corpus rather than your full personal or company archive; Setup involves database state, model or API keys, and daemon-style background ingestion, so review retention and access boundaries before pointing it at sensitive material.

Evidence links
Closest alternatives / related signals
memory knowledge-graph rag bun postgres agent-runtime mit
Verification record

What RepoRadar actually verified

Discovered

Automated discovery and source capture. Last checked 2026-08-13T20:20:15Z.

No editorial or hands-on review is claimed. This record remains at Discovered.

Verification sources

Longitudinal intelligence

How this decision record is moving

Raw history JSON →

34 dated snapshots retained from 2026-07-01 through 2026-08-13; see the snapshot index for explicit coverage gaps. Stars, version, release, pricing, integration, risk, maintenance, verdict, score, and momentum fields remain explicit even when a source has not reported them. Repository momentum is a normalized 0–10 RepoRadar signal; GitHub stars appear only where the popularity monitor retained exact timestamped observations.

RepoRadar score8.7 current · +0.0 net
Repository momentum10.0 current · +1.0 net
GitHub stars (observed)28,381 current · +2,296 net
GitHub stars28,381 exact observation
Versionv0.45.10.0
Last release2026-08-13T19:19:16Z
Maintenanceactive
Current riskconditional
Current verdicttry now
Pricing baselineNo structured commercial pricing baseline
Pricing checkedNot applicable or not recorded
Pricing freshnessNo dated commercial pricing review
Integrations baselineNo structured integrations recorded

Recent dated points

DateScoreMomentumStarsRiskVerdictMaintenance
2026-08-138.710.028,381conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-128.79.628,269conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-118.79.628,195conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-108.79.628,116conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-098.79.628,037conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-088.79.627,986conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-078.79.627,655conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-068.79.0Not recordedconditionaltry nownot recorded
2026-08-058.79.0Not recordedconditionaltry nownot recorded
2026-08-048.79.627,655conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-038.79.627,655conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-028.79.627,574conditionaltry nowactive

Why the record changed

stars changed

Stars changed: 28269 → 28381.

version changed

Version changed: v0.45.6.0 → v0.45.10.0.

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Version changed: v0.44.0.0 → v0.45.6.0.

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Stars changed: 28037 → 28116.

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Version changed: v0.42.75.0 → v0.43.0.0.

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Version changed: v0.42.72.1 → v0.42.74.0.