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Software Factory Map

Find The Right Tool For
Every Part Of Your Software Factory

148 open-source projects and products, sorted into the 16 components a software factory runs on. Compare licences, see what you can host yourself, and find where our open-source Lore fits.

Tools mapped
148
Components
16
Capabilities
6
Last checked
26 Oct 2026
The Map

Six Capabilities, Sixteen Components

Every software factory has to do these six things. Pick a component to compare the tools that do it.

01

Orchestration

Pick up work, run it and keep agents moving.

02

Isolated Environments

A separate, controlled place for every agent to work.

03

Context & Memory

What agents know about the organisation and what they remember.

04

Validation

Checks that agent output matches what was asked for.

05

Governance

Rules, approvals and limits on what agents may merge and spend.

06

Learning

Measuring results and feeding them back into the factory.

Compare The Tools

Every Component, Every Tool

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Showing 8 of 8 in Org context over MCP

03 · Context & Memory

Org context over MCP

8 tools · 1 open source · 2 self-hostable

Built by re:cinq · Open source

  • Lore on GitHub

    Assembles conventions, ADRs, memories and graph facts into one token-budgeted block per repository, over MCP.

  • Unblocked

    Serves Slack, Confluence, Jira and PR history to coding agents over MCP.

    SaaS
  • Augment Context Engine MCP

    Semantic code retrieval across many repositories for MCP clients such as Claude Code, Cursor and Zed.

    SaaS
  • Sourcegraph MCP + Deep Search

    Cross-repository code search that agents reach over MCP.

    EnterpriseSelf-hostable
  • Nia

    Indexes repositories, documentation sites and PDFs and adds a research agent.

    Free tier, then SaaS
  • Context7

    Serves version-specific library documentation to coding agents.

    MIT client, private backend
  • GitHub Copilot Spaces

    Curated repository files kept in sync and reachable through the GitHub MCP server.

    Included in Copilot plans
  • Claude Code memory

    Managed organisation CLAUDE.md, .claude/rules/ and auto memory for static conventions.

    Built in
  • Continue

    Open framework of context providers for coding assistants.

    Apache-2.0Self-hostable

Licences and self-hosting options checked on 26 October 2026. Listing a tool is not an endorsement.

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The ecosystem changes every week. Tell us about a tool we missed, a licence that changed or a project that has gone quiet, and we will update the map.

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