- fix(docs): overview hero reaches the window edges on wide screens
- docs: changelog and blog post for v0.10.3
- docs: fix the home page link preview
- docs(blog): plain post titles with a description subtitle and byline row
- fix(ui): hide the no-op '+field' button at the entity-label root level
- refactor(openclaw)!: remove the agent-sdk package and the agentknowledge tools
Hindsight by Vectorize
Open-source memory system for AI agents from Vectorize that stores what an agent learns and recalls it in later sessions.
Agent tooling for cost, context and memory
New · Added to AgentGid on Oct 20, 2026Open source · MITFree to start
Price
Free (OSS)
free and open source
Popularity
#17 in Agent tooling
Gid Score 46 / 100 · #17 of 63 ranked agent tools
Trend
Gaining stars fast
about +423 GitHub stars a day
Development
Actively updated
latest 1.0.0, 8d ago
Community
52K GitHub stars
public signals
Usage data: latest readings Oct 19 to Oct 20, 2026, last checked Oct 20, 22:24 UTC. Date of each number
What Hindsight does
It is free and open source (MIT); you pay only for the models it calls.
Key facts
| Maker | Vectorize |
|---|---|
| First released | October 2025 |
| License | MIT |
| Main language | Python |
| Open issues and PRs | 149 |
Pricing
Open source under the MIT licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
, checked Oct 20, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Quick answers
- Free to start?Yes
- Open source?Yes (MIT)
- Closest alternativeOpenShell · all alternatives
Hindsight alternatives
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OpenShellNVIDIA |
77 | 118K | up 11.1% | up 351.6% | 16.7K+108/day | 0.1.48d ago | Free (OSS) | |||
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72 | 23M | up 5.6% | — | 61.6K+80/day | 1.104.4yesterday | Free (OSS) | |||
| 3 |
NVIDIA NemoClawNVIDIA |
69 | — | — | — | 22.8K+9/day | — | Free (OSS) | |||
| 4 |
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64 | 9.5M | down 17.1% | up 17.7% | 36.1K+49/day | 4.64.02d ago | Free + $29/mo | |||
| 5 |
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64 | 2M | down 19.8% | up 0.3% | 193K+343/day | 2.11.04mo ago | Free + $16/mo | |||
| 6 |
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60 | 3.2M | down 14.5% | up 21.9% | 14.5K+22/day | 2.11.08d ago | Free + $150/mo | |||
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Hindsight news
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17 agents added to AgentGid
Hindsight, Cherry Studio, Google Workspace CLI, Hypit, Cognee, GenOffice, Ego Lite, cc-haha, Hive, Moli, Vibe-Trading, MemOS and 5 more
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Hindsight passes 50K GitHub stars
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Hindsight 1.0.0 released
fix(docs): overview hero reaches the window edges on wide screens; docs: changelog and blog post for v0.10.3; docs: fix the home page link preview
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Hindsight 0.10.3 released
docs: changelog and blog post for v0.10.2; fix(coding-agents): hold the deepen lock with a heartbeat, not a 30-minute TTL; feat(coding-agents): treat memory as a past record, and let teams add their own guidance
What changed: recent Hindsight releases
9 stable releases in the last 90 days · Full changelog
- docs: changelog and blog post for v0.10.2
- fix(coding-agents): hold the deepen lock with a heartbeat, not a 30-minute TTL
- feat(coding-agents): treat memory as a past record, and let teams add their own guidance
- feat(coding-agents): add TraeCode (TRAE CN) harness
- fix(coding-agents): filter non-conversation Codex content
- docs: point Hindsight Cloud links to ui.hindsight.vectorize.io
Earlier releases
- docs: changelog and blog post for v0.10.1
- docs: every Hindsight code example comes from a tested snippet (+4 fixes it surfaced)
- blog: What's New in Hindsight Cloud (0.10.0), plus three stale-line fixes
- docs: show the tested snippets on the live (0.10) docs
- fix(coding-agents): concise extraction by default, configurable and synced; cache append support
- fix(mental-models): refuse off-schema delta replies and ask the model again
- docs(skill): sync the docs skill's openapi.json to v0.10.0
- feat(api): attachment filenames for store-owned banks
- fix(attachments): never reclaim attachments for a store-owned bank
- fix(retain): guard concise prompt examples
- fix(memory-defense): redact Hindsight Cloud API keys
- fix(oauth): do not fail the store lock when the store cannot be written
- docs: changelog and blog post for v0.9.2
- fix(retain): batch a document's chunk embeddings instead of one request per chunk
- perf(tokenizer): replace tiktoken with quicktok and default to o200kbase
- fix(benchmarks): repair retainmemory's imports of removed engine symbols
- retain: rebuild an oversized item's sub-batch from its original span
- fix(search): score pgtextsearch results per row
- Stop whole-schema claim test fixtures deleting other xdist workers' operations
- docs: changelog and blog post for v0.9.1
- docs: rework the topbar, page chrome and skill installer
- docs: specify Claude Sonnet benchmark version
- fix(retain): enqueue relink victims before delta chunk deletion
- fix(db): keep the DSN's applicationname across pool reuse (blank pgstatactivity behind pgbouncer)
Hindsight popularity and usage data
The GitHub repository has 52K stars, 28,050 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.0.0, published Oct 13, 2026; there were 4 stable releases in the past 30 days. It was mentioned in 167 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
Download the raw daily series: hindsight.csv
Gid Score breakdown
Adoption13
Community72
Attention55
Momentum100
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
How fresh these numbers are
| Number | Latest reading | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | Oct 20, 2026 | Oct 20, 22:24 UTC |
| Website rank (Tranco) | Oct 19, 2026 | Oct 20, 22:24 UTC |
| Hacker News mentions | Oct 19, 2026 | Oct 20, 22:24 UTC |
We fetch every source once a day. Registries publish downloads and page views a day or two late, so their latest reading trails the check. A reading more than 4 days old is marked out of date; the Gid Score still uses it until a newer one arrives.
Hindsight FAQ
How much does Hindsight cost?
Open source under the MIT licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
Is Hindsight open source?
Yes. Hindsight is open source, released under the MIT license.
How popular is Hindsight?
The GitHub repository has 52K stars, 28,050 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.0.0, published Oct 13, 2026; there were 4 stable releases in the past 30 days. It was mentioned in 167 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
What is the latest version of Hindsight?
The latest stable release we track is 1.0.0, published on Oct 13, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Hindsight?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are OpenShell, LiteLLM, NVIDIA NemoClaw, Langfuse.
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Where these numbers come from
GitHub: vectorize-io/hindsight. Site rank: vectorize.io on the Tranco list. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: hindsight.vectorize.io, github.com.