Recon documentation
What Recon Local is, what it remembers, and where to begin.
Recon Local is private work memory for one person on a Mac. It connects the material you already have with the decisions and reasoning created while you work, then gives that context back to you and supported AI tools later.
What problem it solves
Files usually preserve what shipped. They rarely preserve why an approach was chosen, what failed before it, which constraint mattered, or when the choice should be revisited. That missing reasoning forces you and your AI tools to rediscover the same context.
Recon keeps the durable parts together:
- the source or artifact
- the decision and its reason
- rejected or failed approaches
- corrections and lessons
- the condition for revisiting a choice
- receipts showing where each part came from
Recon is not a passive transcript recorder and does not silently copy every Claude Code or Codex conversation.
The shortest useful path
- Install Recon and choose one source.
- Let Recon form source-backed Knowledge.
- Connect Claude Code or Codex in Settings > AI tools.
- Work normally with the installed Recon guidance.
- Ask Recon about the decision later and open its receipts.
Choose the page you need
- New to Recon: Getting started
- Want the mental model: How Recon works
- Unsure about Knowledge and Work: Knowledge and Work
- Want practical questions to try: Use cases
- Need the Terminal command: AI tools and CLI
- Need a fix: Troubleshooting
- Evaluating shared memory: Cloud and Teams
Recon Local is the available free, local product. Cloud and Teams use a separate hosted memory boundary. The Local app does not silently synchronize its database with a hosted workspace.