Overview
Engram gives any computer a photographic memory. It reads the text off your screen with on-device OCR, redacts secrets, and stores it in a local searchable index — so you, or any AI agent, can search everything you have ever seen. One pip install, MIT licensed, and not a single pixel leaves your machine. It is the open-source core of the perception layer behind W.A.L.T.
The Challenge
Microsoft promised this with Recall and pulled it; Rewind.ai built it and walked away. The same thing killed both: they sent your screen to the cloud. Nobody wants their entire screen history sitting on someone else's server.
The Solution
Keep all of it local. Capture runs in-process, OCR and secret-redaction happen on-device, and everything lands in a local SQLite full-text index exposed over a REST API and an MCP server — so any AI agent can query your memory without a single network call.