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layout: post.njk
title: "Parachute is here"
subtitle: "The ecosystem launches today: Vault, Notes, Scribe, and a single-command installer"
subtitle: "The ecosystem launches today: Vault, Lens, Scribe, and a single-command installer"
date: 2026-04-23T12:00:00
author: "Aaron G Neyer"
permalink: /blog/parachute-is-here/
description: "Parachute is now available. One command installs the ecosystem: Vault for the knowledge graph, Notes for the web app, Scribe for voice transcription, all coordinated by a single CLI."
description: "Parachute is now available. One command installs the ecosystem: Vault for the knowledge graph, Lens for the web app, Scribe for voice transcription, all coordinated by a single CLI."
---

Four months ago I wrote [Opening the Parachute](/blog/opening-the-parachute/) — a description of what I wanted to build and why. Today it's real, and it's open source, and you can install it with one line.
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bun add -g @openparachute/cli && parachute install vault
```

Add Notes and Scribe the same way:
Add Lens and Scribe the same way:

```sh
parachute install notes
parachute install lens
parachute install scribe
```

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**Parachute Vault** — the knowledge graph itself. Self-hosted, SQLite-backed, Bun-native. Notes, tags, links, attachments, full-text and graph queries. Exposed over both a REST API (for humans and tools) and [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) (for AI). Import from and export to Obsidian. Each vault is its own database on your disk, portable and entirely yours.

**Parachute Notes** — a browser-based companion for the Vault. Installable as a [PWA](https://web.dev/progressive-web-apps/) so it works offline on your phone, your laptop, any device with a modern browser. Write, link, tag, search, graph-browse, drop in voice memos that auto-transcribe. Point it at a vault URL, do a one-time OAuth handshake, and that's the setup. The earlier Parachute Daily — which required a native app install — is retired; Notes replaces it with the same workflow but works everywhere.
**Parachute Lens** — a browser-based companion for the Vault. Installable as a [PWA](https://web.dev/progressive-web-apps/) so it works offline on your phone, your laptop, any device with a modern browser. Write, link, tag, search, graph-browse, drop in voice memos that auto-transcribe. Point it at a vault URL, do a one-time OAuth handshake, and that's the setup. The earlier Parachute Daily — which required a native app install — is retired; Lens replaces it with the same workflow but works everywhere.

**Parachute Scribe** — audio transcription. Whisper-compatible API (`POST /v1/audio/transcriptions`) plus optional LLM cleanup. Runs locally on your machine by default, using [parakeet-mlx](https://github.com/senstella/parakeet-mlx) for on-device transcription. You can BYO a cloud provider for higher-quality models.

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```
Browser · Phone (PWA) · Pendant
↓
Parachute Notes ──── REST ──→
Parachute Lens ───── REST ──→
↘
Parachute Scribe ── transcribe ──→ Parachute Vault ── MCP ──→ Claude · ChatGPT · Gemini
↓
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```
/ → the hub
/notes → Notes
/lens → Lens
/vault/default → Vault API (MCP + REST)
/scribe → Scribe API
/.well-known/parachute.json → ecosystem discovery
Expand All @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Launch week was focused on the self-hostable base. Post-launch directions:

If you want to follow along, the [roadmap](/roadmap/) is live and the [source](https://github.com/ParachuteComputer) is open.

If you'd like to try it, the five-minute walkthrough is on the [front page](/) — and the migration note for anyone who was using Parachute Daily: it's on the old CLI's `parachute migrate` command, which archives your Daily data cleanly so you can start fresh with Notes.
If you'd like to try it, the install walkthrough is on the [front page](/). For anyone who was using Parachute Daily: whatever you'd synced into your vault is still there. Install Lens, point it at the same vault, and your notes are waiting.

If you find anything broken: please [open an issue](https://github.com/ParachuteComputer). I'm launching this small and listening carefully.

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