br8n saves what you were thinking the moment you get pulled away — branch, open files, the diff, and the one-line why — and hands it back as a 30-second resume card when you return. Your code is already saved. This is the part that isn't.
The measured cost of refocusing after a single interruption — Gloria Mark, UC Irvine, and longer for complex code. Your editor restored every file. What it couldn't restore is the sentence you were holding in your head.
A stash saves your code, not your reasoning — no open-file set, no cursor, no rationale. br8n captures the one line a diff can never recover: what you thought was wrong, and what you were about to try next.
br8n snapshots your state at commit boundaries — branch, files, diff, a one-line hypothesis — then distills each session into concepts in your graph. Checkpoint any moment yourself with /br8n:capture; the rest happens in the background.
Run /br8n:pickup and get one card: what you thought was happening, the branch, the files you had open, the diff you left behind — and the single next step future-you should take first. Read it in 30 seconds and start typing.
Every capture also lands in a cross-repo work graph, so /br8n:pickup can list every branch you've left mid-thought — in any project — and drop you back into whichever one you meant.
Capture and distillation run in the background and fail silent — br8n never takes your turn. See the knowledge engine underneath ›
br8n launches free, forever, on your machine. Cloud is for when you want your context to follow you across machines — it's designed, not yet built.
No account, and capture & resume need no key — the loopback backend keeps everything on your machine. Search and explore need an embedding key.
Full quickstart — MCP, keys, both tiers ›/plugin marketplace add anthonysuherli/br8n
/plugin install br8n@br8n