Screenpipe launches a 24/7 local screen memory for your AI agents
The YC S26 recorder turns your screen and audio into a local, searchable store any MCP client can read — and it just dropped MIT for a paid license.
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What it is: a local memory bus for your agents
Screenpipe records screen frames (paired with the OS accessibility tree), system audio and clicks into a local SQLite store, then serves it over an MCP server plus a localhost:3030 REST API. Point Claude Code, Cursor, Cline or Claude Desktop at it and your agent can finally answer 'what was I doing 20 minutes ago?' App v2.5.132 shipped July 23; the repo sits near 20.4k stars.
The license flip: MIT is gone
Screenpipe relicensed from MIT to a source-available Commercial License. Personal, nonprofit, educational and research use stays free; commercial use now needs a paid plan ($25/mo local, $50/seat for cloud sync and AI, $150/seat enterprise). If you shipped anything on the old MIT tree, audit it before your next release.
Private by default, enforced in code
Everything stays on-device unless you opt into cloud sync or Deepgram transcription, and a local PII model (Apple MLX / Windows DirectML, under 1% CPU) masks sensitive data. App and content filters are enforced in server middleware and skill gating, not by prompting — the standard answer to 'isn't always-on capture a privacy nightmare?'
Also trending on HN: OneCLI keeps keys out of the agent
The open-source OneCLI (Rust) is back on the front page: a credential vault and gateway that lets agents call services without ever seeing your API keys, and with no code changes. Worth a look if you're handing MCP tools anything that holds secrets.