Fob: A Local Continuity Layer for AI-Assisted Work

Overview

Fob is a local-first tool designed to serve as a continuity layer between your development projects, your AI accounts, and your personal decisions. It addresses the context tax, which is the difficulty of keeping multiple AI tools aligned. Fob keeps context, decisions, handoffs, and AI conversations together on your machine. Unlike another model or an IDE, Fob ensures that tools like Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, Gemini, and future-you can pick up the thread without re-explaining your project.

Benefits

Fob offers several key advantages for developers who use multiple AI tools. It acts as a central hub that stores durable memory within the project folder itself. This means you do not have to re-explain project details to every new AI interaction. The tool provides a unified interface for managing AI interactions within a project. It allows users to ask different models, resolve conflicts, and save decisions from one project-aware surface. Fob also includes safety features to review diffs, create file-edit approvals, and ensure no risky actions occur without explicit confirmation. The tool is strictly local-first, meaning your project memory stays in your local workspace and your private data never leaves your machine unless you explicitly choose to share it.

Use Cases

Fob is ideal for developers who rely on multiple AI models for their work. It is useful when you need to paste long AI answers you have already paid tokens for or ask multiple models from a single local dashboard. The tool helps when you need to generate practical next actions, save decisions, or resolve conflicts between different AI suggestions. It is also beneficial when you want to build context packets for other AIs without rerunning the same prompt. Fob is designed for builders who use more than one AI tool and hate losing context between sessions. It ensures that the current decision, approved context, agent disagreement, and next action remain visible while you are still working.

Pricing

Pricing details are not available at this time. The tool is currently in a founder release phase, and private testers can access it via a specific command. The Mac package is being finalized, and founder users receive a Fob license and local setup guidance.

Vibes

Public reception and reviews are not available at this time. The tool is currently in a private tester flow, and access can be obtained via a specific email address. The installation involves running a command that opens a local dashboard on your machine.

Additional Information

Fob is strictly local-first. The website serves only as a safe preview of the flow for testers to understand the product before touching their own files. The actual Fob app runs on the user's computer because it requires access to local files and connections to local AI CLIs. The deployment is hosted on Vercel, but the engine runs locally on the user's machine. The tool includes a local API and MCP tools for pulling saved context into other AI workflows. The founder release includes a license and local setup guidance for early adopters.