Developers change tools all the time.
Today it’s VS Code.
Tomorrow it might be Cursor, Claude Code, an MCP client, or a terminal-based workflow.
Yet every switch comes with the same penalty: rebuilding context.
This reveals an architectural issue.
Most AI systems treat context as something owned by the application. Once the application changes, much of that understanding disappears.
A more scalable approach is to let the repository own its cognitive state.
Contorium follows this idea by keeping project knowledge independent of any specific editor or assistant. Different tools can access the same evolving understanding instead of maintaining isolated memories.
This separation makes AI workflows more portable, more consistent, and easier to extend.
As the AI ecosystem continues to diversify, interoperability won’t be enough.
Shared cognition across tools will become just as important.
https://www.contorium.dev/
https://github.com/ContoriumLabs/contorium
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