The archive note and the paragraph it supports, in one folder.
Start from permitted text extracts and your research notes. Sessions and readable memory anchor to the folder, big scans are kept in the history, and a local model keeps the work on your Mac.
Now
The note about what the letter said, and the paragraph that depends on it, end up in different tools and different chats.
With Bandicot
Notes sit beside the argument they support. The agent edits text files you can diff, and you check each interpretation against the original yourself.
A day with it
No merging unrelated archive context across generic chats.
Early
The job lands
The note about what the letter said, and the paragraph that depends on it, end up in different tools and different chats.
Before noon
You hand it over
Notes sit beside the argument they support. The agent edits text files you can diff, and you check each interpretation against the original yourself.
Mid-afternoon
A trusted harness around the model
Bandicot gives every agent a project, tools, a session that survives restarts, approvals, and a clear place to stop.
Last thing
You read what changed
Keep archival working notes near the draft they inform.
What you bring
No merging unrelated archive context across generic chats.
A Mac
Bandicot is a Mac app. The work happens in your folders, on your machine.
A folder
Keep files, context, plans and decisions with the project instead of losing them in a disposable chat.
archive-notes/A model
A local model, an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or a hosted provider you sign in to. The provider bills you directly.
Free
For one person on your Mac. Every plan has every capability.
The result, the reason, the wait, the work
- What you get
- Keep archival working notes near the draft they inform.
- Why it holds
- Projects anchor sessions and readable memory to a chosen folder, and Versions keeps files up to 16 GB, showing the size of a very large file instead of its text.
- How soon
- Start from permitted text extracts and research notes.
- What you stop doing
- No merging unrelated archive context across generic chats.
What we say about it
An agent with write access is only useful if a mistake costs one click.
Everything on one slip
Projects anchor sessions and readable memory to a chosen folder, and Versions keeps files up to 16 GB, showing the size of a very large file instead of its text.
bandicot
- Asked
- Keep archive working context with local research drafts
- Before it wrote
- It asked, and waited for your answer
- Files kept
- historyversion kept
- privateversion kept
- projectversion kept
- Stands behind
- The Versions command line can return JSON
- Versions shows the size of a very large file instead of its text
- You can bring saved git history back to the project
- Paid to Bandicot
- Free
- Model bill
- from your provider
Keep archival working notes near the draft they inform.
Notes sit beside the argument they support. The agent edits text files you can diff, and you check each interpretation against the original yourself.
Who this is for
Made for
Historians who check interpretations against original sources.
Historians working from local archival notes and text extracts
Not yet for
People seeking guaranteed transcription or historical verification.
Claims we stand behind
Each line says whether it ships now or is still being built, so you never buy a promise.
- Available now
Any model, one project
Switch between hosted providers and local models without rebuilding the project around one lab.
- Available now
A version for every change
Every file an agent changes is recorded, with diffs, restore, undo of a whole run, and a slider that puts a folder back to any moment.
- Available now
Approval before writes
An agent asks before it writes, runs or spends outside the rules you set; the rules live in one permissions file.
- Available now
The Versions command line can return JSON.
It prints plain text by default and JSON with --json.
- Available now
Versions shows the size of a very large file instead of its text.
A file over 128 MB is saved and put back piece by piece, up to 16 GB.
- Available now
You can bring saved git history back to the project.
The saved history goes back into the project exactly as it was, with your commits, branches and tags.
The Archive Desk
Every line below is already in the plan. Nothing here is an extra you pay for.
- Project-specific memory for each archiveincluded
- Notes found by meaningincluded
- A version of every text edit, with large files keptincluded
- A local or hosted model, chosen per projectincluded
- Saved git history brought back as it wasincluded
Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.
No contract. Cancel any time from your account and keep the plan until the end of the period you paid for.
The archive note and the paragraph it supports, in one folder.
Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.