What is claude-memory CLAUDE.md?

A repository instruction file for `claude-memory`, a persistent memory system for Claude Code. It documents the Python service, Node.js indexer, webhook pipeline, build commands, and tests.

Use it to guide builds, type checks, tests, conversation indexing, and webhook-related development for `claude-memory`.

It gives an agent the project context and development commands needed to work in the repository consistently.

How NathanNorman/claude-memory configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to NathanNorman/claude-memory. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NathanNorman/claude-memory/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NathanNorman/claude-memory

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 4,509 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 4,509 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.04509	$0.04509
Opus 5.5	$0.01804	$0.01804
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00902	$0.00902
Haiku 4.5	$0.00451	$0.00451

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2dde178e1c4b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-memory CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 295 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 295 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What This Is

claude-memory is a persistent memory system for Claude Code, implemented as an MCP server. It has three main subsystems:

Python MCP server (src/unified_memory_server.py) — The runtime that Claude Code connects to. Handles search, read, write, and status tools via stdio. This is what runs in production.
Node.js indexer (src/indexer.ts and friends) — Batch indexer that scans conversation archives, chunks content, generates embeddings, and maintains the SQLite search index. Runs on-demand via reindex.
Webhook pipeline (src/webhook_server.py, src/index_worker.py, src/mirror_manager.py) — FastAPI server that receives GitHub push webhooks and incrementally re-indexes changed files via bare git mirrors.

Build & Development Commands

# Node.js indexer
npm install          # Install dependencies
npm run build        # Build MCP server + doctor CLI (esbuild, single-file ESM bundles → dist/)
npm run build:doctor # Build doctor CLI only
npm run typecheck    # TypeScript type checking (tsc --noEmit)
npm test             # tsc compile + integration tests (node --test)

# Reindex (rebuild search index from memory files + conversation archives)
npx tsc && node dist/reindex-cli.js   # Backs up DB to ~/.claude-memory/backups/ before reindexing

# Python MCP server (uses venv at ~/.claude-memory/graphiti-venv/)
~/.claude-memory/graphiti-venv/bin/python3 src/unified_memory_server.py  # Run directly
python3 -c "import py_compile; py_compile.compile('src/unified_memory_server.py', doraise=True)"  # Syntax check

# Python tests (pytest-style, run individually)
~/.claude-memory/graphiti-venv/bin/python3 -m pytest scripts/test_conversation_parser.py -v
~/.claude-memory/graphiti-venv/bin/python3 -m pytest scripts/test_code_chunker.py -v
~/.claude-memory/graphiti-venv/bin/python3 -m pytest scripts/test_build_parser.py -v
~/.claude-memory/graphiti-venv/bin/python3 -m pytest scripts/test_cross_repo_deps.py -v
~/.claude-memory/graphiti-venv/bin/python3 -m pytest scripts/test_turboquant_backend.py -v
# Or run all Python tests at once:
~/.claude-memory/graphiti-venv/bin/python3 -m pytest scripts/test_*.py -v

# Database diagnostics
node dist/doctor-cli.js          # Diagnose (read-only)
node dist/doctor-cli.js --fix    # Diagnose and repair

# Retrieval benchmarks
~/.claude-memory/graphiti-venv/bin/python3 benchmarks/retrieval_bench.py

Read the full file on GitHub · 295 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

1mo ago Changed 2dde178e1c4b
2mo ago First seen · 295 lines · 4,509 tokens per session scan A 97b5537abbe7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-memory CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository NathanNorman/claude-memory (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,509 tokens to every session, about $0.0180 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Memory and context

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