MineContext is an open-source, proactive context-aware AI partner from Volcengine (ByteDance’s cloud division), built on the idea behind context engineering and products like ChatGPT Pulse: an assistant that continuously understands what you are working on, remembers it, and helps before you even ask. It has earned more than 5,500 stars on GitHub and is actively developed, with its latest updates in 2026.
MineContext is a cross-platform desktop application (Electron front end with Python services) that captures and organizes your working context — the apps, documents and activities on your screen — then turns it into a searchable long-term memory using embedding models and a vector database. A vision-language model helps interpret screen content, and retrieval-augmented generation lets you chat with the assistant about your own history: what you were researching yesterday, where you saw a figure, or how a project evolved. Because the context lives locally under your control, the design emphasizes privacy compared with cloud-only assistants. The proactive layer surfaces summaries, reminders and suggestions based on what it has observed, aiming to feel less like a chatbot you query and more like a partner that keeps track of your work.
MineContext is free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license. You may incur costs only for any cloud model APIs you choose to configure.
MineContext is for knowledge workers and researchers who want an AI assistant with genuine memory of their work — and who prefer that memory to live on their own machine rather than in someone else’s cloud.