Install bkmr with Homebrew

Project links

• Homepage

Commands and aliases

• bkmr

Project history

The GitHub repository was created in 2023, and the crate was published on crates.io soon after. The README describes bkmr as 'Knowledge Management for Humans and Agents' and highlights local full-text and semantic search, JSON output, a built-in LSP server, and structured agent-memory workflows.

Adoption history

bkmr remains a relatively small but active package, distributed through crates.io and Homebrew. Its README notes appearance as This Week in Rust crate of the week 482, which helped place it in the Rust CLI ecosystem.

How it is used

Users add URLs, snippets, shell commands, markdown, text, local files, or agent memories with tags, then search or dispatch them through commands such as search, hsearch, sem-search, add, open, import-files, tags, and lsp. Configuration is generated to ~/.config/bkmr/config.toml, with a local database created by the user.

Why package nerds care

bkmr is interesting because it combines older bookmark-manager and snippet-manager ideas with newer local embeddings and AI-agent memory conventions. For package watchers it is a compact Rust example of the 'local knowledge base as CLI primitive' trend.

Timeline

• 2023: bkmr repository is created on GitHub.
• 2023: bkmr crate is published on crates.io.
• 2023: The project is featured as This Week in Rust crate of the week 482.
• 2020s: bkmr adds agent-memory, semantic-search, JSON, and LSP-oriented workflows.

Related projects

• bkmr overlaps with bookmark managers, snippet managers, local note systems, and command launchers, but differs by exposing its store through a scriptable CLI and JSON output.
• The README positions its agent-memory mode as a reusable protocol, including a bundled bkmr-memory skill.

Sources

• https://crates.io/crates/bkmr
• https://github.com/sysid/bkmr#readme
• https://github.com/sysid/bkmr/wiki
• source_facts.package-manager