Sortwell

In two append-only JSONL files under ~/.sortwell, overridable with SORTWELL_DIR. Items are stored exactly as written, mark_done appends a new version instead of deleting, and damaged lines are skipped and counted rather than removed.

Project routing requires at least 0.45 probability because a wrong home is worse than no home; below that the item stays in the inbox. The README's principle is that being ranked third instead of second costs nothing, which is not true of a wrong deletion.

capture files one item, deciding kind, project, urgency and duplicate in a single request. shortlist returns the few things that matter today, ranked, plus projects that have gone quiet. add_project closes a finished project or opens an ongoing area. mark_done takes an item off the list without deleting anything. Every item ends up one of task, decision, project-update, reference, personal-follow-up or ignore, with an action of now, scheduled, read-later or none.

Given the tools and a skill telling it to use them, the agent called capture zero times in four runs, writing its own tidy summary instead: not blocked, no error, just never reached for. The README calls that a pattern rather than a fluke and draws the lesson that an MCP server is not a behaviour change, which is why the SessionStart hook is the thing that makes it happen.

Node 22 or newer and a TypeSafe API key; it is not published to npm, so clone it, npm install and npm run build, or run node dist/cli.js capture without any client at all. It never rewrites your text, since Jev generates none; never deletes, since mark_done and close append; never guesses a home below the routing threshold; and never fails closed, since with no key or a scorer error shortlist returns everything unranked with a line saying why. MIT licensed.

A seven-line transcript captured one line at a time against three projects: kind landed 6 of 6, the pleasantry went to ignore and the inbox, the nightly build time became a decision on Warehouse rollout, and the reworded repeat of the job advert line was caught as a duplicate at 0.96 and filed nowhere. Capture took 424 ms. One label the author expected was wrong, not the model's.

Node 22 or newer and a TypeSafe API key; it is not published to npm, so clone it, npm install and npm run build. Try it with no client at all using node dist/cli.js capture or shortlist. As a Claude Code plugin run claude plugin marketplace add Dharundp6/jev-sortwell then claude plugin install sortwell@sortwell, or point any MCP client at node with the absolute path to dist/cli.js.