OpenViking
What it is
Volcengine's (ByteDance's cloud arm) self-evolving context database for agents: memory, RAG knowledge, and skills unified as a virtual filesystem behind a `viking://` protocol, which agents browse with `ls`, `tree`, and `find` instead of querying a vector store. Content is tiered — abstract, overview, full detail — and loaded on demand to keep token use down. Rust core under AGPLv3, `pip install openviking` to run the server; integrations for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode.
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