[Zayn Jarvis (ZaynJarvis)]

Motivation & Context

OpenViking is an open-source context database with 40K+ GitHub stars (40,654 verified on October 23, 2026). Its Python context provider retrieves relevant context before agent runs and captures conversations and tool calls for application-controlled memory extraction. This change makes that published integration discoverable in the community catalog, following the maintainer invitation in #8991. The integration was merged in volcengine/OpenViking#5578 and is available in the public repository with installation instructions, an example, and tests.

Description & Review Guide

• What are the major changes? Add one OpenViking row under Context providers, alphabetically after MemorySync.
• What is the impact of these changes? Readers can find the integration and open support issues with OpenViking. Only the Python catalog changes.
• What do you want reviewers to focus on? The distinction between the context database and its Python ContextProvider: pre-run retrieval, conversation and tool-call capture, and explicit memory extraction. The 40K+ star count is a public project metric, not a usage or compatibility claim. Also check component placement and the direct integration and issue-creation links. The entry makes no Microsoft endorsement or version compatibility claims.

Related Issue

Fixes #8991. The maintainer explicitly invited this catalog PR in #8991 (comment). No competing OpenViking PR was found.

AI Assistance

• No material AI assistance was used.
• This is an AI-assisted contribution. I reviewed, understood, and verified all submitted content and accept responsibility for it.

AI assistance details: Catalog wording, contribution-policy checks, and this PR description were prepared with AI assistance. Publication evidence and the current catalog structure were checked against their source repositories.

Contribution Checklist

• The code builds clean without any errors or warnings
• All unit tests pass, and I have added new tests where possible
• The PR follows the Contribution Guidelines
• This PR links to an agreed issue with no competing open PR, or the Related Issue section documents a trivial-change or repository-automation exception.
• This is not a breaking change.

Documentation-only, one-row change: no build or unit tests were run. Table columns, alphabetical placement, neutral wording, and direct URL shapes were checked locally; the repository Markdown link-check workflow will validate reachability.

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What changed in this PR

Adds the published OpenViking Python context provider to the community catalog, following the maintainer invitation in #8991.

Changes:

• Lists OpenViking alphabetically after MemorySync under Context providers.
• Describes its memory scenarios and provides direct integration and external issue-creation links.
• Keeps the change limited to the Python catalog, without endorsement or compatibility claims.

File	Description
python/​samples/​community-projects.md	Adds the OpenViking context-provider entry.

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