no cloud is a real answer to one worry but it kind of creates a smaller version of the same problem: right now my secrets and half-finished thoughts are scattered across five separate tools' storage, which is annoying but also means no single file on disk is that valuable. an index of literally every agent and IDE conversation in one place, searchable, is a much juicier single target for anything else running on the machine. is the index itself encrypted at rest, or is it plain text once it's built?
I kept losing conversations. Not because I deleted them. Just because they pile up across Cursor, Claude Code, Zed, Codex, Kiro... and there's no way to search any of it.
I'd vaguely remember solving something in a session from two weeks ago. Which tool was it in? Which project? No idea. So I'd spend 20 minutes hunting, or just solve it again from scratch.
Browser history doesn't help. The apps themselves have weak or zero search. And honestly I didn't want some cloud tool indexing my private dev conversations anyway.
So I built Inventory. It runs locally, indexes everything on your machine, and gives you one search bar across all of it. No account, no sync, no subscription. One time and it's yours.
The problem
If you use more than one AI tool, you know how this goes. A conversation where you figured out a gnarly bug. A prompt that finally worked. An architectural decision you reasoned through with Claude. It's all sitting somewhere on your machine but it might as well be gone.
AI agents are becoming a real part of the workflow now and nobody built the memory layer for it. That's what Inventory is.
Happy to answer anything. Would love to hear how others are managing this 🙌
The local-only decision is the interesting one. I've got two years of Cursor and Claude Code history sitting in places I can't search, and the reason I've never tried a cloud tool for it is that those conversations contain client context I'm not willing to upload.
Two things I'd want to know: does it index historical conversations or only from install onwards? And when a tool changes its local storage format in an update, how much breaks?
Second one matters because that's the failure mode for anything indexing someone else's files, and it's the thing I'd need to trust before paying a one-time fee.
Upvoted, saw your five in Nika's thread, which is how I found this.
This is a real gap for teams, not just individuals. Half the useful context in my company now lives in one-off chats nobody can find two weeks later. Does Inventory work across a team's conversations with permissions, or is it scoped to a single person's history for now?
About Inventory on Product Hunt
“Search every AI Agent & IDE Conversation”
Inventory launched on Product Hunt on August 3rd, 2026 and earned 106 upvotes and 12 comments, placing #14 on the daily leaderboard. Inventory is the private, local index for every Cursor, Claude Code, Zed, Codex and Kiro conversation. No signups, no cloud, one-time fee.
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no cloud is a real answer to one worry but it kind of creates a smaller version of the same problem: right now my secrets and half-finished thoughts are scattered across five separate tools' storage, which is annoying but also means no single file on disk is that valuable. an index of literally every agent and IDE conversation in one place, searchable, is a much juicier single target for anything else running on the machine. is the index itself encrypted at rest, or is it plain text once it's built?