Every tool finds what exists. m1nd finds what's missing.
Every session, your agent re-reads your entire codebase — burning $0.05–$0.50 per search cycle in LLM tokens, forgetting everything by next session. m1nd replaces that loop with a persistent code graph that learns from usage, detects structural holes no grep ever could, and answers in 31ms at $0.00. Local Rust binary. No API keys. No meter ticking.
Every time an agent needs context, it fires LLM calls to search, read, and guess. On a 10,000-file codebase, that's hundreds of dollars a week — and it still misses what isn't there.
| Approach | What It Does | Why It Fails |
|---|---|---|
| Full-text search | Matches tokens | Finds what you said, not what you meant |
| RAG | Embeds chunks, top-K | Each retrieval is amnesiac. No relationships. |
| Static analysis | AST, call graphs | Frozen snapshot. Can't answer "what if?". Can't learn. |
| Knowledge graphs | Triple stores | Manual curation. Only returns what was explicitly encoded. |
Not incremental improvements. Structural differences.
m1nd doesn't search your data -- it activates it. Query a concept, and the graph lights up.
Click the graph to see spreading activation in action
2026 is the year of AI slop — agents brute-forcing their way through codebases with grep loops, burning tokens like kindling. grep, ripgrep, tree-sitter: brilliant tools. For humans who read terminals. But an AI agent doesn't want 200 lines of output to interpret linearly. It wants a graph with weights, dimensions, and a direct answer: "what matters and what's missing" — ready to decide, not to parse.
The end of context window theater. No more feeding search results to an LLM so it can search again.
m1nd doesn't output text for an LLM to re-interpret. It outputs structured decisions — weighted nodes, confidence scores, dimensional rankings, structural holes. The format an agent actually needs to act, not more slop to chew on.
When an AI agent searches your code with an LLM, it sends your code to a cloud API, pays per token (input + output), waits for the response, and often repeats 3–5 times. Every cycle costs $0.05–$0.50.
m1nd uses zero LLM calls. Your codebase lives as a weighted graph in local RAM. Queries are pure math — spreading activation, graph traversal, linear algebra — executed by a Rust binary on your machine. No API call. No tokens. No data leaves your computer. That's why it costs $0.00 and runs in 31ms.
grep is stateless. Every search starts from zero. m1nd Perspectives maintain a living navigation session — with history, branches, and suggestions.
12 tools. Stateful exploration with memory, branching, and undo.
No other code navigation tool on the market does this.
Callable by any MCP client via JSON-RPC stdio. No SDK required.
Measured on a 335-file Rust + Python + TypeScript project. No cherry-picking.
Different category, not just a better version.
Every time an AI agent greps your codebase and feeds results to an LLM, you pay. Cursor users have reported $22K/month in overages. Teams running Copilot + frontier models on large repos see $200–$500/month in invisible search costs alone.
| m1nd | Sourcegraph | Cursor | Copilot | Greptile | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code graph | Full property graph | Symbol index | None | None | AST index |
| Learns from use | Hebbian plasticity | No | No | No | No |
| Persists investigations | Trail system | No | No | No | No |
| Tests hypotheses | Bayesian engine | No | No | No | No |
| Simulates removal | Counterfactual | No | No | No | No |
| Multi-agent locks | Lock system (works) | No | Attempted, failed | No | No |
| Multi-repo | Federation | Yes | No | No | Per-repo |
| Search latency | 31ms (local) | ~200ms (cloud) | 320ms+ (cloud) | 500–800ms | Cloud-dependent |
| Agent interface | 43 MCP tools | API | Built-in only | Built-in only | API |
| Monthly cost | $0 (forever) | $59/user/mo | $20+/mo (overages to $22K) | $19+/mo | $30/dev/mo |
| Capabilities (of 16) | 16/16 | 1/16 | 0/16 | 0/16 | 1/16 |
We benchmarked m1nd against every tool in the category across 16 capabilities. m1nd scores 16/16. The best competitor scores 3. Cursor and Copilot score zero.
m1nd ingesting and analyzing a production codebase. Every number is real.
m1nd starts as a JSON-RPC stdio server. MCP-compatible out of the box.
Send MCP messages over stdin. State persists automatically.
Not just code. Ingest any knowledge graph from JSON.
No tool is everything. Here is where m1nd has edges.
Open source. Local. Zero cost. One binary. 43 tools.
Your codebase never leaves your machine.
MIT Licensed · Rust · ~8 MB binary · Works with any MCP client