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shbontour/notion-agent-cache

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TLDR

A command-line tool that syncs selected Notion pages to local Markdown files so AI assistants can read your documentation without needing live access to Notion.

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    What it does
      Sync Notion pages locally
      Create Markdown snapshots
      Local search command
    Security model
      Read-only integration
      Allowlist specific pages
      Filter secret-looking titles
    Snapshot system
      Timestamped snapshots
      Current pointer
      Configurable retention
    Setup
      Create Notion integration
      Save token locally
      Run doctor command
      Schedule nightly syncs
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Let your AI coding assistant read your team's runbooks and architecture docs from local files instead of making live Notion API calls during every conversation.

USE CASE 2

Create a read-only, narrowly scoped snapshot of specific Notion pages that an AI tool can search safely without exposing your entire workspace.

USE CASE 3

Schedule nightly syncs so your local documentation cache stays fresh, and use the built-in search command to query it from the terminal.

Tech stack

JavaScriptNode.js

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires creating a dedicated Notion integration and manually sharing specific pages with it before the first sync.

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In plain English

Notion Agent Cache is a command-line tool that copies selected pages from your Notion workspace into local Markdown files on your computer. The purpose is to let AI coding assistants read your project documentation, runbooks, release checklists, and architecture decisions without needing live access to Notion during every conversation. The problem it solves: when an AI assistant needs context from your team's documentation, the most common workarounds are either giving it a live Notion API token (which means every lookup makes a network call and exposes the whole workspace) or pasting content manually. This tool offers a middle path. You point it at specific Notion pages you trust, run a sync, and the content lands in a local folder as plain text files. The AI assistant then searches those files using ordinary tools, with no network calls and no access beyond what you explicitly included. The access model is narrow by design. You create a dedicated read-only Notion integration and share only the pages you consider safe for the agent to see. The tool cannot reach anything you did not explicitly share with that integration. Page titles that look like they might contain secrets can be filtered out with configurable patterns before they ever get written to disk. Each sync creates a timestamped snapshot. A pointer called "current" always points to the most recent one, and older snapshots are kept up to a configurable limit. There is also a small local search command included if you want to query the cache from the terminal without an AI assistant. Setup takes a few steps: create a Notion integration, save its token to a local file, add Notion page URLs to the allowlist, and run the sync. A built-in doctor command checks that everything is configured correctly. Syncs can be scheduled to run nightly to keep the cache fresh. The tool runs on Node.js and has no third-party runtime dependencies.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Help me set up notion-agent-cache to sync my Notion architecture decision pages to a local folder so my AI assistant can read them without a live Notion token.
Prompt 2
I want to filter out Notion pages with titles that might contain secrets before notion-agent-cache writes them to disk. How do I configure the title filter patterns?
Prompt 3
Show me how to schedule notion-agent-cache to run a nightly sync and how the timestamped snapshot system keeps a history of older versions.
Prompt 4
My notion-agent-cache doctor command is failing. Walk me through what it checks and how to fix a misconfigured Notion integration token.
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