KeptOwn your conversations forever with local AI chat archives

Kept — LLM Chat Archive

Kept automatically captures your AI conversations from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other popular LLM platforms, saving them as plain markdown files on your local filesystem. Your chats become readable, searchable, and permanently yours — no cloud lock-in, no subscription fees, complete data ownership.

Product Highlights

• Local-First Storage: All conversations saved as plain markdown files in ~/.kept — grep-able, diff-able, and readable in any editor
• Universal Capture: Works across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Kimi with @kept trigger or automatic background sync
• Powerful Search: Full-text search with SQLite FTS5 and semantic Smart Recall for natural language queries across your entire archive
• BYOK Architecture: Bring your own API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, or run local models via Ollama — you control the inference layer
• MCP Integration: Ships with kept-vault-server for seamless integration with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, and other MCP-aware tools
• Knowledge Graph & Topics: Automatic clustering and entity extraction surface relationships and themes without manual tagging
• Obsidian Export: One-command sync into your existing Obsidian vault while preserving your edits

Use Cases

• Personal Knowledge Management: Build a searchable archive of AI-assisted research, decisions, and creative work that outlives any single platform
• Professional Research: Track evolving project requirements, code reviews, and strategic discussions across multiple LLM tools with full provenance
• Team Documentation: Generate weekly digests and decision logs from archived conversations for transparent project history
• Local AI Workflows: Continue any archived chat in-app with your own keys, or integrate vault contents into Claude Code projects and custom automation

Target Audience

Kept serves privacy-conscious professionals, developers, researchers, and power users who rely on multiple AI platforms and need durable, portable records of their intellectual work — without surrendering data to proprietary cloud services.