cory-mem: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

cory-mem CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from darland6/cory-mem. It costs 1,374 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project instructions for cory-mem, a personal memory system for AI applications with short-term and persistent memory.

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What is it for?
It helps maintain the system's memory manager, search engine, embedding providers, session handling, and immutable data models.
Why use it?
It gives the coding assistant the project's architecture and rules, including how memory types, search, embeddings, and immutable data structures fit together.

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CLAUDE.md · 192 lines

How it starts

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cory-mem

Personal memory system for Claude-based AI projects with semantic search, session management, and MCP integration.

Architecture

src/cory_mem/
├── core/           # Memory orchestration
│   ├── memory_manager.py  # Central orchestrator (sessions, inject, retrieve, search, sync)
│   ├── short_term.py      # Session-scoped memory with TTL
│   ├── long_term.py       # Persistent memory storage
│   └── lifecycle_tracker.py
├── models/         # Immutable dataclasses
│   ├── base.py            # Memory, MemoryType, MemoryStatus
│   ├── personal.py        # PersonalMemory, PersonalCategory
│   ├── knowledge.py       # KnowledgeMemory, KnowledgeDomain
│   ├── interaction.py     # InteractionMemory
│   └── project.py         # ProjectMemory
├── search/         # Hybrid search (FAISS + keyword)
│   ├── engine.py          # SearchEngine (semantic, keyword, hybrid)
│   └── keyword.py         # TF-IDF keyword search
├── embeddings/     # Pluggable embedding providers
│   ├── base.py            # EmbeddingProviderProtocol
│   ├── local.py           # sentence-transformers (default)
│   ├── openai.py          # OpenAI embeddings
│   └── claude.py          # Anthropic embeddings
├── storage/        # Persistence layer
│   ├── json_storage.py    # Atomic JSON files with fcntl locking
│   └── faiss_index.py     # FAISS vector index
├── api/            # REST API
│   ├── main.py            # FastAPI app
│   └── routers/           # memories, search, scheduler, versioning, analytics
└── mcp/            # MCP server
    ├── server.py          # CoryMemServer
    ├── tools.py           # MCP tool definitions
    └── resources.py       # MCP resource handlers

Memory Types

class MemoryType(str, Enum):
    PERSONAL = "personal"      # User preferences, facts, relationships
    KNOWLEDGE = "knowledge"    # Learned facts, skills, domain knowledge
    INTERACTION = "interaction" # Conversation history, feedback
    PROJECT = "project"        # Project-specific context
    GENERIC = "generic"        # Catch-all

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cory-mem CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository darland6/cory-mem (1 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,374 tokens to every session, about $0.0069 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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