Save what matters
Keep rules, decisions, runbooks, prompts, and notes where your AI can retrieve them later.
Local context for AI work
detour.sh
When the context isn’t in the prompt, take a Detour.
Give your AI a safe, local way to retrieve the project rules, decisions, runbooks, prompts, and notes its harness doesn’t carry.
Stored locally. Retrieved through authenticated MCP. Shared only when you export.
Context with a destination
Stop rebuilding context for every session.
A Detour is a named set of context your AI can retrieve globally or for one project. Save it once, scope it clearly, and call it when the work needs it.
Scope it correctly
Use Global Detours across your work and Project Detours only where their context applies.
Retrieve it safely
Connect a local AI tool through authenticated, read-only MCP without uploading your workspace.
Designed for AI workflows
The right context, retrieved on demand.
Your AI tool can ask Detour for relevant Global and Project context through a local, authenticated MCP connection.
In your Detours
Review before PRSkill
Project voiceSoul file
Release checksRunbook
Local MCP
Find and serve selected context
Your AI tool
“What should I know before this change?”
Relevant context, ready to use
Read-only retrieval with a key you create and control locally.
In your workflow
Bring context in before the work goes wrong.
Connect your local AI tool over MCP and retrieve the applicable Global and Project Detours before important work.
Returned material is context, not permission to execute commands or share data.
01Before action
02Before commit
03Before PR
04Before public
Under your control
Private at rest. Intentional when shared.
Your data stays in the container’s persistent volume. Select a context bundle only when you want to export it as Markdown or JSON.
Read the safety planLocal by defaultDocker Desktop and a local SQLite volume
Selected exportsChoose exactly what goes into a bundle
No silent sharingSaving context never publishes it or sends it to an AI
Try the local build
Start on your own machine.
Save scoped context, retrieve it through MCP, and export selected bundles without a hosted account or external service.
docker compose up --buildGet the build