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Erkle and the tools you already use.
Instruction files and built-in memory are good at what they do. Erkle covers what they don't: knowledge shared across repositories, people, and tools, searched per task, with review and permissions. Here's where each one fits.
Erkle vs. CLAUDE.md
Claude Code's instruction file vs. a shared, reviewed memory every agent can search.
./compare/claude-md →Erkle vs. AGENTS.md
The open, tool-neutral instruction file vs. a team memory with scopes, review, and search.
./compare/agents-md →Erkle vs. built-in agent memory
A tool's own memory of you vs. a reviewed memory your whole team and every tool share.
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