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memem memory plugin for Claude Code

Give Claude Code a long-term memory that remembers your project decisions and fixes between sessions.

Notes For it and development Knowledge & Memory

memem is a memory helper for Claude Code. It listens to your coding sessions, picks out the useful bits (decisions you made, rules you follow, bugs you fixed), and saves them as plain notes in an Obsidian vault on your own computer. Next time you start a session, Claude can look those notes up instead of asking you to explain everything again.

What is an MCP server? The 30-second version

On its own, Claude Code only knows what is in the current chat. An MCP server is a small helper program that gives your AI a new skill or a connection to something else. This one connects Claude Code to a memory vault on your machine, so the AI can save lessons from past sessions and read them back later. You stay in control because everything is stored as normal text files you can open and edit.

What this MCP server does

You work in Claude Code like you normally do. When a session turn ends, memem quietly reads the new part of the conversation and pulls out things worth keeping, like a decision, a convention, or a bug fix. It writes those as markdown notes into your Obsidian vault. When you start a new session or ask Claude to recall something, memem finds the notes that match and hands them to Claude, so your AI answers with your project's own history in mind.

Flow diagram: you ask your AI “What did we decide about the database schema last week?”, on your own computer the memem memory plugin for Claude Code works with your computer, and you get back your past decisions and fixes.

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What you can do with it

Remember decisions you made in earlier sessions
Recall your project's coding conventions and preferences
Look up how you fixed a bug before
Search past conversations by keyword
Save a specific memory yourself when you want to keep it
Show a short working set of relevant memories for the current task
Keep everything as plain markdown files you can read and edit

Try asking your AI

“What did we decide about the database schema last week?”
“Remind me of the naming conventions we use in this project.”
“How did we fix that login timeout bug?”
“Search my past sessions for anything about the payment flow.”

What it gives back to you

You get back short notes and answers drawn from your own past sessions. Sometimes it is a list of matching memories with titles and snippets, sometimes it is a small working set of the most relevant ones for what you are doing now. It can also save a new memory when you ask. Everything it writes lands as markdown files in your vault, so you can open them any time.

Before you start

What you need

Claude Code installed and working
Python 3 (the plugin runs on it)
An Obsidian vault folder for your notes (the default is ~/obsidian-brain/memem/memories/)
An Anthropic API key so the miner can read and summarize your sessions

Good to know

It reads your Claude Code sessions and sends them to Anthropic's API to extract memories, so do not use it on sessions that contain secrets you would not want summarized.

Install it with your AI

Add memem memory plugin for Claude Code to your AI, no technical skills needed

You don't install anything by hand. You copy one prompt, paste it into an AI that can work on your computer, and it checks, installs and connects the server for you, asking you when it needs something.

Sign in to get the install prompt

Members get a ready-made prompt that lets the Claude desktop app check memem memory plugin for Claude Code, install it and connect it for them, step by step. You don't need any technical skills: you copy, paste and answer a few questions. Your connected AI can also find and install any of the 4,066 MCP servers here for you.