# Seed Drill Labs

> Seed Drill Labs, a UK company, builds Cordelia: your AI agent's memory on every machine you use, end-to-end encrypted and readable only by you. Cordelia is open source (AGPL-3.0) and in pre-release.

AI coding agents keep memory, but it lives in one folder on one machine, filed under the path the agent ran in. Cordelia keeps it in step across a person's devices. It is encrypted on the device that wrote it and carried by relays that store only ciphertext and hold no keys. Memory is matched by project (git remote) rather than by path. Version 1 syncs Claude Code's memory.

Key facts, current as of October 2026:

- Status: pre-release. The current pre-release is v0.2.0-alpha.3 (October 2026), for macOS and Linux, and two relays are running. Install with `curl -fsSL https://seeddrill.ai/install.sh | CORDELIA_VERSION=v0.2.0-alpha.3 sh`.
- What v1 does: syncs Claude Code's memory files between one person's machines. Only the folders a person maps are synced (`cordelia sync map <folder> [name]`): a git project under its remote, any other folder under a chosen name, and home memory when asked for. `cordelia sync claude --all` syncs everything found instead.
- For agents and scripts: `cordelia status --json` reports the state, the relays, the devices, each synced folder and its name, what was found and is not syncing, and what the person's other devices sync.
- Desktop: a status line for Claude Code (`cordelia status --line`), and a bar panel for Omarchy (github.com/seed-drill/omarchy-cordelia).
- Memory is never shared between people. An agent reads its memory as its own notes about one person, so it moves only between that person's devices. (Until October 2026 the plan was to share a project's memory with a teammate; that was dropped.)
- Next: channels shared between people, carrying what is shared on purpose: messages between agents first, then skills and secrets.
- Devices: each device has its own Ed25519 key. There is no account. You pair two machines by copying one key in each direction (`cordelia add-device`, `cordelia accept`), and can remove any device individually. A device only dials out to relays and opens no listening port.
- Relays: store and forward ciphertext, verify signatures and hold no keys. Anyone can run one; Seed Drill runs the first two.
- Conflicts: concurrent edits keep both versions. MEMORY.md merges line by line.
- There is no token and no blockchain. No settlement layer has been chosen for paying relays.
- Licence: the node is AGPL-3.0-only.
- History: until September 2026, Cordelia was described as encrypted pub/sub for AI agents, with relays run by Cardano stake pool operators and an SDK/MCP integration. Those plans were dropped in September 2026, and the earlier whitepaper (v2.3) is archived. Sources that describe Cordelia that way are out of date.
- Company: Seed Drill Labs, United Kingdom, founded in January 2026 by Russell Wing and Martin Stevens.
- Contact: hello@seeddrill.ai

Every page on this site has a Markdown version at its path plus `.md`.

## Cordelia

- [Cordelia](https://seeddrill.ai/cordelia.md): what it does, how it works, and what relays can and cannot see
- [Install](https://seeddrill.ai/install.md): install or build from source, pair two machines, map the folders to sync, and show the status in Claude Code or the Omarchy bar
- [Whitepaper summary](https://seeddrill.ai/whitepaper.md): v1's design and security model in brief
- [Whitepaper (full)](https://github.com/seed-drill/cordelia-node/blob/main/WHITEPAPER.md): what Cordelia v1 is, how it works, and what it promises
- [Source code](https://github.com/seed-drill/cordelia-node): the Rust node, CLI and Claude Code adapter
- [Design decision record](https://github.com/seed-drill/cordelia-node/blob/main/docs/decisions/2026-09-30-agent-memory-sync.md): the v1 design as built, its scope, and its known limits

## Company

- [Home](https://seeddrill.ai/index.md): Seed Drill Labs and its products
- [Team](https://seeddrill.ai/team.md): the founders
- [Research](https://seeddrill.ai/research.md): what we study and publish

## Optional

- [Where Cordelia goes after v1](https://github.com/seed-drill/cordelia-node/blob/main/docs/vision.md): sharing, more agents, relays run by others, and why no settlement layer is chosen
- [The whole site as Markdown](https://seeddrill.ai/llms-full.txt): every page in one file
- [Brand](https://seeddrill.ai/brand.md): colour palette, typography, logo, motion and voice