Quick answer
Context Cloud and Hjarni both provide shared knowledge through hosted MCP servers. Context Cloud centers on typed entries for engineering teams and includes a dashboard for human editing. Hjarni centers on Markdown documents, folders, note history, and team roles. Choose the knowledge format and editing workflow your team needs, then verify access controls, retrieval, and export with a small example.
Details behind the comparison
- Primary shape
- Context Cloud describes decisions, findings, conventions, and state as typed chunks. Hjarni keeps titled documents.
- MCP server
- Both provide first-party hosted access for compatible assistants.
- Shared knowledge
- Both describe shared knowledge with access controls. Compare the permission setup needed for your team.
- Human editing
- Context Cloud explicitly advertises a dashboard where people browse, search, edit, and curate knowledge. It is not exclusively an agent interface.
- Attribution
- Hjarni provides note versions and one-click restore. Context Cloud advertises attribution and session history.
- Search
- These are different retrieval designs. Neither is a guarantee that an assistant will retrieve the right context.
- Source material
- Context Cloud also advertises document uploads. It is not limited to captured conversations.
- Export
- We have not verified a documented Context Cloud export format. That does not establish that export is unavailable.
- Pricing
- As checked on 20 October 2026, Context Cloud advertises no-cost shared workspaces. Hjarni uses note quotas and subscriptions.
Both serve people as well as assistants
Context Cloud describes shared workspaces of typed knowledge and a dashboard where people edit and curate it. Hjarni provides Markdown documents in folders, with a web editor, mobile apps, tags, and links. The distinction is the unit you maintain, rather than whether humans can read the content.
Shared memory is available in both
Both offer hosted MCP access and shared knowledge with permissions. Hjarni records note edits with attribution and one-click restore. Context Cloud advertises attribution on chunks and session history. These are different review workflows; try correcting a decision and inspecting its history before choosing.
Verify the boundaries you need
Hjarni normal OAuth connections are account-wide; scoped agent tokens are configured separately for selected folders or spaces. Folder instructions guide assistants and do not enforce access restrictions. For either product, check exactly what a connection can read and write, and verify the assistant retrieves the intended material.
When Hjarni fits
Hjarni fits a team that wants the knowledge assistants use to be ordinary documentation: runbooks, decisions, and research notes people maintain directly. Active notes and attachments export as a Markdown ZIP, while revisions and folder instructions are separate. Context Cloud is worth evaluating when typed engineering context and its advertised free shared workspaces suit the work. Confirm its current export workflow before relying on a migration plan.
Choose the knowledge format your team can maintain.