| Product | LUCI Desktop |
| Website | luci.memories.ai |
| Category | AI Agent Memory / Productivity |
| Pricing | Free |
| Platforms | Mac, Windows |
| Privacy | 100% local, on-device storage |
What Is LUCI Desktop?
LUCI Desktop records your screen activity and turns it into searchable context that AI agents can access. The key constraint: everything stays on your machine. No cloud uploads, no server-side processing, no external data stores. Your screen history is yours.
The problem it solves is genuine. AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor are powerful, but they start every session with amnesia. They don’t know what you were doing five minutes ago, what tabs you had open, what Slack thread you were reading, or what design you were looking at in Figma. LUCI fills that gap by giving agents a searchable record of your workday.
Key Features
Continuous Screen Recording
LUCI runs in the background and captures your screen at regular intervals. The captures are processed locally using on-device OCR and indexing, creating a searchable timeline of everything you’ve seen throughout the day. Think of it as a local-only version of what Windows Recall attempted, but without the cloud dependency.
MCP Integration
The core integration is through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Once installed, LUCI exposes a local MCP server that your AI agent connects to. When you ask your agent a question like “what was the error message I saw 20 minutes ago?” or “find the Figma design I was looking at earlier,” the agent queries LUCI’s local index and gets the answer.
Meeting Recording
Beyond screen capture, LUCI records meeting audio and video (locally). After a meeting, your AI agent can reference what was discussed without you typing a summary. The recordings are indexed alongside screen captures in the same searchable timeline.
Context Delivery, Not Context Retrieval
LUCI doesn’t wait for you to ask. When you start a task in your AI agent, LUCI proactively sends relevant context — what you were looking at, what you were working on, what meetings you attended — so the agent starts with the right background. This is the difference between a search engine and a memory: search requires a query, memory surfaces what’s relevant.
Privacy Model
Everything runs locally. Screen captures, OCR processing, meeting recordings, and the search index all live on your machine. LUCI does not upload data to any cloud service. There is no account creation required (though Memories.ai offers an optional cloud tier for cross-device sync).
This is the right call for a product that records your entire screen. The moment screen recording data leaves your machine, you have a security and privacy problem that no terms of service can solve. Local-only is the only architecture that makes this product viable for professional use.
Who Is This For?
- Developers using AI coding assistants — give your agent context about what you were debugging, what docs you read, what design you saw
- Knowledge workers in meeting-heavy roles — reference meetings without taking notes
- Anyone who loses context switching between tasks — LUCI remembers what you forget
- Privacy-conscious users who want screen memory without cloud data collection
Pros
- Free (no paywall for core features)
- 100% local — no cloud data collection
- MCP integration with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
- Proactive context delivery, not just search
- Meeting recording included
- Mac and Windows support
Cons
- Continuous screen recording uses disk space and CPU
- Sensitive information on screen is captured and indexed
- Local-only means no cross-device access (without optional cloud tier)
- MCP ecosystem is still young — integration quality varies
- No Linux support
Verdict
LUCI Desktop addresses the biggest limitation of current AI coding assistants: they don’t know what you were doing before you opened the chat window. Every context switch, every meeting, every document you read is invisible to your agent. LUCI makes it visible.
The local-first architecture is the right decision. Screen recording is inherently invasive, and the only way to make it acceptable is to guarantee the data never leaves the machine. LUCI gets this right.
The product is free, which removes the adoption barrier. The main concern is resource usage — continuous screen recording and on-device OCR are not free in terms of CPU and storage. For most modern machines, this is fine. For older hardware or battery-constrained laptops, it could be noticeable.
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