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Persistent memory for Claude Code.

Claude forgets everything between sessions. Claude Memory fixes that locally: project rules, architecture notes, deploy facts, decisions, and preferences restored when the next session starts.

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MIT license Node.js 22+ SQLite No tracking

Build from source

Clone, install, build.

git clone https://github.com/Gilligan-Tech-Inc/claude-memory.git
cd claude-memory
npm install
npm run build

Then add the built server to Claude Code:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memory": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/claude-memory/dist/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Code. Your local database lives at ~/.claude-memory/memory.db. Current source targets Node.js 22+.

Start warm

Load repo rules, architecture, deployment notes, and prior decisions at the beginning of a session.

Stay private

SQLite on your machine. No cloud account, telemetry, vector database, embeddings service, or API key required.

Ship faster

Less re-explaining context means more time spent implementing, debugging, documenting, and reviewing.

Tool surface

Ten practical memory tools

Tool	What it does
`memory_bootstrap`	Load all memories for a project at session start.
`memory_save`	Persist a note, decision, rule, or architecture fact.
`memory_recall`	Search with SQLite FTS5/BM25 and optional filters.
`memory_update`	Correct memory when project truth changes.
`memory_archive`	Hide stale memory without permanent deletion.
`memory_import` / `memory_export`	Move or back up memory as JSON.

01 / SAVEYou save the project truth

Rules, decisions, deploy facts, architecture notes.

02 / STORESQLite keeps it local

Fast full-text search without cloud calls.

03 / BOOTSTRAPClaude starts with context

Future sessions recover the working memory.

Part of GilliganTech

Free MIT source belongs in the AI SaaS venture stack.

Regulation Intelligence proves customer-facing RAG. Claude Memory proves the internal AI engineering workflow in public, inspectable, forkable source that developers can build themselves.

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