diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9cfddad6..5bcc7495 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,4 +12,5 @@ docker
 duckduckgo-search
 google-api-python-client #(https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview)
 pinecone-client==2.2.1
-redis
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+redis
+orjson
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diff --git a/scripts/commands.py b/scripts/commands.py
index 98be7772..a88ad0ae 100644
--- a/scripts/commands.py
+++ b/scripts/commands.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import browse
 import json
+from memory.local import LocalCache
 from memory.pinecone import PineconeMemory
 from memory.redismem import RedisMemory
 import datetime
@@ -55,11 +56,14 @@ def get_command(response):
 def execute_command(command_name, arguments):
     if cfg.memory_backend == "pinecone":
         memory = PineconeMemory(cfg=cfg)
-    else:
+    elif cfg.memory_backend == "redis":
         memory = RedisMemory(cfg=cfg)
+    else:
+        memory = LocalCache(cfg=cfg)
+
     try:
         if command_name == "google":
-            
+
             # Check if the Google API key is set and use the official search method
             # If the API key is not set or has only whitespaces, use the unofficial search method
             if cfg.google_api_key and (cfg.google_api_key.strip() if cfg.google_api_key else None):
diff --git a/scripts/config.py b/scripts/config.py
index 637c17fd..9afeb1d2 100644
--- a/scripts/config.py
+++ b/scripts/config.py
@@ -65,10 +65,10 @@ class Config(metaclass=Singleton):
         self.redis_port = os.getenv("REDIS_PORT")
         self.redis_password = os.getenv("REDIS_PASSWORD")
         self.wipe_redis_on_start = os.getenv("WIPE_REDIS_ON_START", "True") == 'True'
-        self.memory_index = os.getenv("MEMORY_INDEX", 'gpt')
+        self.memory_index = os.getenv("MEMORY_INDEX", 'auto-gpt')
         # Note that indexes must be created on db 0 in redis, this is not configureable.
 
-        self.memory_backend = os.getenv("MEMORY_BACKEND", 'pinecone')
+        self.memory_backend = os.getenv("MEMORY_BACKEND", 'local')
         # Initialize the OpenAI API client
         openai.api_key = self.openai_api_key
 
diff --git a/scripts/main.py b/scripts/main.py
index eecdd7f8..e49f1810 100644
--- a/scripts/main.py
+++ b/scripts/main.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import json
 import random
 import commands as cmd
+from memory.local import LocalCache
 from memory.pinecone import PineconeMemory
 from memory.redismem import RedisMemory
 import data
@@ -287,8 +288,10 @@ user_input = "Determine which next command to use, and respond using the format
 if cfg.memory_backend == "pinecone":
     memory = PineconeMemory(cfg)
     memory.clear()
-else:
+elif cfg.memory_backend == "redis":
     memory = RedisMemory(cfg)
+else:
+    memory = LocalCache(cfg)
 
 print('Using memory of type: ' + memory.__class__.__name__)
 
diff --git a/scripts/memory/local.py b/scripts/memory/local.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fb105224
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/memory/local.py
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+import dataclasses
+import orjson
+from typing import Any, List, Optional
+import numpy as np
+import os
+from memory.base import MemoryProviderSingleton, get_ada_embedding
+
+
+EMBED_DIM = 1536
+SAVE_OPTIONS = orjson.OPT_SERIALIZE_NUMPY | orjson.OPT_SERIALIZE_DATACLASS
+
+
+def create_default_embeddings():
+    return np.zeros((0, EMBED_DIM)).astype(np.float32)
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass
+class CacheContent:
+    texts: List[str] = dataclasses.field(default_factory=list)
+    embeddings: np.ndarray = dataclasses.field(
+        default_factory=create_default_embeddings
+    )
+
+
+class LocalCache(MemoryProviderSingleton):
+
+    # on load, load our database
+    def __init__(self, cfg) -> None:
+        self.filename = f"{cfg.memory_index}.json"
+        if os.path.exists(self.filename):
+            with open(self.filename, 'rb') as f:
+                loaded = orjson.loads(f.read())
+                self.data = CacheContent(**loaded)
+        else:
+            self.data = CacheContent()
+
+    def add(self, text: str):
+        """
+        Add text to our list of texts, add embedding as row to our
+            embeddings-matrix
+
+        Args:
+            text: str
+
+        Returns: None
+        """
+        self.data.texts.append(text)
+
+        embedding = get_ada_embedding(text)
+
+        vector = np.array(embedding).astype(np.float32)
+        vector = vector[np.newaxis, :]
+        self.data.embeddings = np.concatenate(
+            [
+                vector,
+                self.data.embeddings,
+            ],
+            axis=0,
+        )
+
+        with open(self.filename, 'wb') as f:
+            out = orjson.dumps(
+                self.data,
+                option=SAVE_OPTIONS
+            )
+            f.write(out)
+
+    def clear(self) -> str:
+        """
+        Clears the redis server.
+
+        Returns: A message indicating that the memory has been cleared.
+        """
+        self.data = CacheContent()
+        return "Obliviated"
+
+    def get(self, data: str) -> Optional[List[Any]]:
+        """
+        Gets the data from the memory that is most relevant to the given data.
+
+        Args:
+            data: The data to compare to.
+
+        Returns: The most relevant data.
+        """
+        return self.get_relevant(data, 1)
+
+    def get_relevant(self, text: str, k: int) -> List[Any]:
+        """"
+        matrix-vector mult to find score-for-each-row-of-matrix
+         get indices for top-k winning scores
+         return texts for those indices
+        Args:
+            text: str
+            k: int
+
+        Returns: List[str]
+        """
+        embedding = get_ada_embedding(text)
+
+        scores = np.dot(self.data.embeddings, embedding)
+
+        top_k_indices = np.argsort(scores)[-k:][::-1]
+
+        return [self.data.texts[i] for i in top_k_indices]
+
+    def get_stats(self):
+        """
+        Returns: The stats of the local cache.
+        """
+        return len(self.data.texts), self.data.embeddings.shape
diff --git a/scripts/memory/redismem.py b/scripts/memory/redismem.py
index 20be4a4e..296d0cce 100644
--- a/scripts/memory/redismem.py
+++ b/scripts/memory/redismem.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import redis
 from redis.commands.search.field import VectorField, TextField
 from redis.commands.search.query import Query
 from redis.commands.search.indexDefinition import IndexDefinition, IndexType
-import traceback
 import numpy as np
 
 from memory.base import MemoryProviderSingleton, get_ada_embedding