claude-mem Project

Persistent memory compression system built for Claude Code.

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114,993 stars on GitHub, Nov 9, 2026 · 8 skills

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smart-explore

Use it when:
You want the agent to find its way around a codebase without reading whole files.
It does:
Replaces Read, Grep and Glob for code discovery with claude-mem's smart_search, smart_outline and smart_unfold tools.

type:tool effect:none needs:mcp by:official token-saving agent-workflows stack:claude-mem stack:tree-sitter

Age
8 months
Stars
115K
#15
Total Downloads
7.6K
bottom 39%
Weekly Downloads
162
bottom 32%
make-plan

Use it when:
You want a plan for a feature or multi-step change before any code is written.
It does:
Sends subagents to find the real docs, API signatures and examples, then writes phases that each cite them.

type:workflow effect:local needs:subagents planning multi-agent agent-workflows

Age
8 months
Stars
115K
#15
Total Downloads
7.5K
bottom 38%
Weekly Downloads
155
bottom 30%
do

Use it when:
You have a phased plan, such as one from make-plan, and want it carried out.
It does:
Stays a coordinator and hands all the work to subagents: one implements each phase, others verify, check anti-patterns and review.

type:workflow effect:remote needs:subagents implementation multi-agent verification agent-workflows

Age
8 months
Stars
115K
#15
Total Downloads
7.3K
bottom 36%
Weekly Downloads
152
bottom 29%
timeline-report

Use it when:
You want the story of a project's development, as recorded by claude-mem across its sessions.
It does:
Fetches the project's full timeline from claude-mem's local worker and gives it to a subagent that also queries claude-mem's SQLite database.

type:workflow effect:local needs:cli needs:subagents by:official memory writing stack:claude-mem

Age
7 months
Stars
115K
#15
Total Downloads
7.1K
bottom 35%
Weekly Downloads
155
bottom 30%
knowledge-agent

Use it when:
You want to ask questions of one slice of your claude-mem history, such as everything about a subsystem or last month's decisions.
It does:
Collects matching observations into a named corpus, loads it into an AI session, and answers your questions from it.

type:tool effect:local needs:mcp by:official memory stack:claude-mem

Age
7 months
Stars
115K
#15
Total Downloads
6K
bottom 26%
Weekly Downloads
153
bottom 29%
learn-codebase

Use it when:
You start on a new or unfamiliar project and want the agent to know all of it before working.
It does:
Has the agent read every source file in full, however many there are, paging through large files in chunks.

type:command effect:none needs:none agent-workflows

Age
6 months
Stars
115K
#15
Total Downloads
5.6K
bottom 19%
Weekly Downloads
155
bottom 30%
pathfinder

Use it when:
You suspect a codebase solves the same problem in several places and want an architecture audit before refactoring.
It does:
Sends subagents to map each feature as a Mermaid flowchart labelled with file:line, then hunts duplicated concerns within and across features.

type:workflow effect:local needs:subagents architecture refactoring diagrams multi-agent stack:mermaid

Age
6 months
Stars
115K
#15
Total Downloads
5.4K
bottom 13%
Weekly Downloads
151
bottom 29%
babysit

Use it when:
You want the agent to stay on a pull request until it's ready to merge.
It does:
Watches pending checks, reads new comments and unresolved review threads, fixes real issues, pushes, then checks again.

type:workflow effect:remote needs:cli code-review ci git stack:github

Age
6 months
Stars
115K
#15
Total Downloads
5.2K
bottom 6%
Weekly Downloads
164
bottom 33%