Capture without leaving
Press ⌘ ⇧ Space from any app. Write the thought, save it to the project, and get back to work.
SidequestLocal-first project memory for developers
Stay on the main quest.
Capture the side work AI coding uncovers—without breaking your flow. Pick it up later with your coding agent.
Free and open source · No account · Your files stay yours
Built for the moments between prompts.
Markdown-nativeTauri + RustCodex & Claude skills
01 / Why Sidequest
AI coding finds the work you should do later.
A refactor. An edge case. A better interaction. Following every thread breaks the flow. Leaving it in chat means losing it by the next session.
02 / The loop
Capture now.
Pick it up later.
Keep it with the project
Every Quest is readable Markdown on your filesystem. Portable, inspectable, and Git-friendly when you want it to be.
Ask your agent later
Say “find the accessibility Quest.” Installed Codex and Claude skills recall it through a stable CLI—no hidden service.
03 / Agent-ready
Your project remembers—even when the chat doesn’t.
Sidequest gives coding agents a stable, versioned way to find and manage project memory across sessions.
- ✓ Natural-language recall through managed skills
- ✓ One Rust core across desktop, CLI, and agents
- ✓ Deterministic behavior, no automatic execution
YOU
Find the Sidequest about keyboard navigation.
AGENT
✓ Found it. I’ll inspect the Quest details flow first.
READYQuest details should support keyboard navigation.sq_01KABC1234567890ABCDEFGHJK
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04 / Built on principle
Small surface.
Strong guarantees.
No account. No cloud.
Sidequest works entirely on your Mac. Your project memory remains usable without a service.
Files are the source of truth.
One Quest, one Markdown file. Read it, copy it, back it up, or version it yourself.
Not another task manager.
Designed for individual developers and project-level intent—not teams, sprints, or generic to-dos.
Understand every layer.
Open source from the Rust core to the Tauri desktop app and versioned sq CLI.
For macOS · Free and open source
Keep the idea.
Keep the flow.
Early MVP · Community builds are not yet notarized