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Stele

Freemium

Swap one AI coding agent for another mid-project and watch the new session ask questions the last one already answered — because context lived in the chat window, not in the project.

$5.99/month · Free tier: Unlimited public projects, 1 private project, 500 knowledge writes/mo, 5,000 stored nodes, 250 assistant turns/mo · Checked Oct 24, 2026

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Summary

Stele is a shared memory layer that sits between your agents and your codebase. Every agent reads the same knowledge graph — decisions, tasks, risks, lessons — before it acts, and writes back what it learns. The atomic task-claiming mechanism means two agents cannot pull the same work item simultaneously, which prevents duplicated effort across parallel sessions. The friction is real: the product is invite-only and cloud-hosted with no self-hosted option, so teams with strict data residency requirements hit a wall immediately.

Bottom line: Stele works well for a solo developer or small team cycling through Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex on a single project — but teams that cannot send codebase context to a third-party cloud service have nowhere to go.

Pricing Plans

SubscriptionLast verified 2 weeks ago
Price
$5.99/month
Free Tier
Unlimited public projects, 1 private project, 500 knowledge writes/mo, 5,000 stored nodes, 250 assistant turns/mo

Free

Free

Free forever. Enough to run a real project on. No card needed.

  • Unlimited public projects
  • 1 private project
  • 500 knowledge writes / mo
  • 5,000 stored nodes
  • Search, recall & hosted MCP
  • 250 assistant turns / mo

Indie

$5.99per month

Side projects you'd rather keep private. Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.

  • 3 private projects
  • 1,500 knowledge writes / mo
  • 15,000 stored nodes
  • 500 assistant turns / mo
  • Email support

Pro

$12per month

Solo devs whose project became the main thing. Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.

  • Unlimited private projects
  • 3,000 knowledge writes / mo
  • 50,000 stored nodes
  • 5 members per private project
  • 1,500 assistant turns / mo
  • Monthly knowledge review

Team

$20per month

When you bring people on to build with you. Per person. Agents are free.

  • Unlimited members & projects
  • 5,000 assistant turns / mo, pooled across the team
  • Biweekly knowledge review
  • Roles + audit log
  • Cross-project search
  • Dedicated support

Enterprise

Custom

Large repos, custom limits, an SLA, and a relationship. SSO and self-hosting are add-ons from Team upward.

  • Custom limits
  • SLA
  • SSO available as add-on
  • Self-hosting available as add-on

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Pros

  • Shared knowledge graph across agents, so switching from Cursor to Claude Code mid-project does not reset the session's understanding of prior decisions and open tasks.
  • Atomic task claiming prevents two agents from starting the same work simultaneously, which means parallel sessions produce additive progress rather than duplicated or conflicting output.
  • Risk and lesson records surface at the moment a relevant change is being made — not after it ships — so an agent flags a known production bug before the code guard that prevents it gets removed.
  • Single CLI install with no dashboard configuration required, so the memory layer becomes active without adding a workflow step between prompts.

Cons

  • The product is invite-only during beta. Teams that need to start using a shared memory layer immediately cannot — there is no self-service onboarding path, and the waitlist timeline is not published by the vendor.
  • The service is cloud-hosted with no self-hosted option. Teams working under data residency requirements or corporate policies that prohibit sending codebase decisions and task data to a third-party service cannot use Stele at all — and at that point the only path forward is building a local context-passing layer themselves or using a different tool that supports on-premise deployment.
  • There is no API surface exposed by the vendor, so teams that want to pipe Stele data into existing project management or observability tooling have no programmatic integration path beyond what the CLI and agent plugins provide.

About

Platforms
Web, local plugin (MCP)
API Available
No
Self-Hosted
No
Last Updated
July 23, 2026

Best For

Who it's for

  • Solo developers needing private AI agent memory
  • Teams collaborating with multiple coding agents
  • Projects requiring versioned knowledge graphs

What it does well

  • Maintaining shared context across multiple AI coding agents
  • Storing and retrieving project decisions, tasks, and lessons
  • Semantic search over coding project knowledge bases

Integrations

Claude CodeCursorCodexMCPSDKhooks

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Stele free?
Stele offers a free option alongside paid upgrades. Pricing: $5.99/month. Check the current allowances and terms before choosing a plan.
What platforms does Stele support?
Stele is available on: Web, local plugin (MCP).

Every new agent session starts cold. It has no memory of the race condition you fixed last sprint, the architectural decision you argued about in a doc, or the task another agent is mid-way through. Stele addresses this by maintaining a persistent, shared knowledge graph that any connected agent reads before responding and writes back to as it works. Setup is a CLI install and a single slash command inside your agent; after that, the record updates automatically as agents work.

The differentiating mechanic is atomic task claiming. When two agents — or two sessions of the same agent — are running, they cannot both claim the same task. The record serializes that access, so parallel work stays parallel rather than colliding. The graph also surfaces past decisions and known risks at the moment they become relevant: if an agent is about to remove a code guard, and that guard was added to prevent a production race condition, the risk surfaces in the agent’s response before the change ships — not after.

Stele integrates with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, OpenCode, Grok, Kimi, and similar CLI-based coding agents via the Stele CLI. The integration model means the tool works wherever an agent can read a local context file, and switching between agents mid-project preserves full context. The product is currently in invite-only beta and is cloud-hosted only — the vendor states no self-hosted path exists.

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