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Persistent memory compression for Claude Code via ChromaDB vector-backed hybrid search. Ships as MCP server with web viewer. Progressive disclosure layers context retrieval. The local-first answer to Claude Import Memory. GitHub
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claude-mem hit 80,189 stars at v12.6.4, with 1,840 commits and 109 contributors. It hooks five agent lifecycle events to capture observations, compresses them through Claude's agent SDK into SQLite, and reinjects relevant context on new sessions. No manual tagging. One npx com...
Three separate Anthropic changes over about two weeks point the same direction, and none of them announced themselves as a strategy. Claude Code 2.1.238 added claude self-hosted-runner --defer-shutdown-max-min, which keeps serving attached sessions on SIGTERM, parks whatever's...
iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI is Apache-2.0 C#/.NET giving agents read/write control over .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx with no Microsoft Office install, no external dependencies, and no .NET runtime at execution time (GitHub). Its differentiator over python-docx-style libraries is a native f...
A standalone macOS and Windows desktop beta released September 14, moving the open-source agent out of the VS Code extension slot; the releases page shows Desktop v0.0.26 on September 11, v0.0.27 on September 13 and v0.0.28 on September 15, so it's shipping daily (GitHub). It...
Observes every session, compresses via AI, stores in local Chroma vector DB with tree-sitter AST indexing, auto-injects relevant past context. Multi-provider, worktree-aware. GitHub
Everyone writing SKILL.md files has absorbed the same folklore. Keep the top file thin. Push detail into reference files. Let the agent walk the tree as needed. More layers, more context efficiency. A controlled study submitted July 20 tested that across InfiniteBench, three a...
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