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memvid/memvid

memvid/memvid is an AI project that RepoRadar is tracking in its Radar section, currently rated Gold tier with a 'try now' verdict. Its strongest signal is novelty, scored 10.0 out of 10.

Score8.5
Popularity100.0
Risklow
TierGold
Score breakdown
Usefulness8.9
Novelty10.0
Momentum10.0
Maturity9.1
Open-source/build7.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential9.6
Setup ease6.5

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

Why it matters

Useful for AI engineers, agent developers, RAG pipeline builders, and edge / offline-first product teams who want a single-file, serverless memory layer for AI agents instead of standing up a vector database, an embedding pipeline, and a metadata store, because memvid/memvid ships an Apache-2.0 single-file memory layer that encodes memory chunks into MP4 video frames for fast retrieval and

Who should use it

Builders Power users

Who should skip it

Skip memvid/memvid if the source repository or demo is inactive, unmaintained, or no longer matches the description shown here.

About this signal

memvid/memvid is tracked by RepoRadar as an AI project in the Radar section. First seen 2026-06-22; the source record was last checked on 2026-06-22. The current verdict is 'try now' with a Gold tier and review needed setup difficulty. Across RepoRadar's eight signals, memvid/memvid is strongest on novelty (10.0) and momentum (10.0) and weakest on setup ease (6.5) — a profile worth weighing against your own priorities. 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 memvid/memvid record combines a 8.5/10 composite score with separate popularity (100.0), risk (low), and setup (review needed) signals. See the scoring methodology for the current weights and evidence definitions.

Putting this into practice? Read How to vet an AI agent or MCP server before you wire it in for the checklist behind this score.

Risk explanation

Risk label is still being reviewed from the captured evidence. Treat the item as unknown-risk until you review the linked source, permissions, setup path, and data access.

Evidence links
Closest alternatives / related signals
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 →

42 dated snapshots retained from 2026-06-23 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 score8.5 current · +0.0 net
Repository momentum5.8 current · -4.2 net
GitHub stars (observed)16,216 current · +527 net
GitHub stars16,216 exact observation
Versionv2.0.140
Last release2026-05-27T19:15:32Z
Maintenancemaintained
Current risklow
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
2026-08-138.55.816,216lowtry nowmaintained
2026-08-128.57.816,212lowtry nowactive
2026-08-118.58.116,209lowtry nowactive
2026-08-108.57.816,198lowtry nowactive
2026-08-098.57.816,194lowtry nowactive
2026-08-088.58.116,189lowtry nowactive
2026-08-078.58.116,112lowtry nowactive
2026-08-068.510.016,186lowtry nownot recorded
2026-08-058.510.016,180lowtry nownot recorded
2026-08-048.58.116,112lowtry nowactive
2026-08-038.58.116,112lowtry nowactive
2026-08-028.57.816,089lowtry nowactive

Why the record changed

maintenance changed

Maintenance changed: active → maintained.

stars changed

Stars changed: 16212 → 16216.

stars changed

Stars changed: 16209 → 16212.

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Stars changed: 16112 → 16189.

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Stars changed: 16186 → 16112.

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Reconstructed from adjacent retained daily snapshots; no upstream cause is inferred. Stars changed: 16180 → 16186.

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Reconstructed from adjacent retained daily snapshots; no upstream cause is inferred. Stars changed: 16112 → 16180.

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Stars changed: 16089 → 16112.

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Stars changed: 16087 → 16089.