Translation layer for agents

Claude can't
remember your files.

Every project has .git/.
Every agent project needs .all/

.all is the translation layer between human files and LLMs — cache every read, version every edit. Your originals stay untouched.

12 ms cache hit

v001 edit versioned

all file types

The gap

Agents weren't built for your files.

Re-upload every session

Claude reads your spreadsheet today and forgets it tomorrow. Every new chat means re-parsing, re-explaining, re-burning tokens on work you already did.

Edits break what matters

Formulas vanish. Layouts shift. PDF structure collapses. Agents hack at binary files because there is no layer between human formats and the model.

No undo across days

Ctrl+Z works in a session. Three days later, when the agent changed cell B12 and you need it back — there is no history, no diff, no revert.

1990s .git/

Version control for code. Invisible. Essential.

Now .all/

Memory + versioning for agent file work. Same pattern.

What changes

Three outcomes. Not three features.

◎

Remember

Every read is cached in .all/. Second access is instant — no re-parse, no re-upload, no wasted context.

cache hit

↩

Undo

Every edit is versioned before apply. Roll back to any point. See what changed and when — across sessions, across agents.

v001 · v002

◇

Preserve

Structured edits round-trip to the original format. Formulas stay formulas. Styles stay styles. Files stay human-readable.

round-trip

Universal

Every file type. One `.all/`

We're not building another Office parser. .all is the translation layer for every format agents will ever touch — documents, media, CAD, medical imaging, scientific data, design files, and whatever comes next.

Shipping first

.xlsx.docx.pdf.csv

Building toward

.mp4.wav.jpeg.svg.ai.stl.gltf.dcm.eeg.pptx.png.json.parquet + every extension

One workspace folder. One hidden .all/ directory — cache, semantics, and edit history for all of it. Office is where we prove the pipeline; the ambition is universal. How it works →

# dotall — library & docs layer
pip install dotall
dotall init ~/work
dotall mcp configure

dotall is the library.

dotall is the documentation and SDK layer — install, configure MCP for Claude Desktop, use the CLI. .all is the company and the convention; dotall is how you build with it.

Documentation → GitHub →

Why now

The file layer is still missing.

Agents moved from chat to real work — on every kind of file. Spreadsheets, scans, video, CAD, EEG, DICOM. The pain is universal.
Unstructured proved the market for reading files at scale. Nobody owns the edit and memory layer underneath agents.
Claude Desktop + MCP means regular users can install a translation layer today — not just ML engineers wiring pipelines.

Every agent project needs a .all/

Join early access. We're building in public.

Claude can't remember your files.