mnemograph CLAUDE.md

mnemograph CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from tm42/mnemograph. It costs 2,810 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for a long-term memory system for Claude Code that stores shared project knowledge in a graph. It records decisions, patterns, questions, and other information across sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide development of the memory system, including its Python MCP server, event history, data model, and layered information retrieval.
Why use it?
It helps preserve project context between separate coding sessions instead of relying only on the current conversation.

Instructions file

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside the plugin that ships it — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed.

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/tm42/mnemograph/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tm42/mnemograph

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Sonnet 5 $0.00562 $0.00562
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Measured 3d ago against content hash 5a3f24a6f7f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mnemograph 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 3d 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 · 274 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 274 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Memory System — Project Brief

For: Claude Code instance working on this project From: Claude (claude.ai session) + M (the human) Date: January 2025

What We're Building

A graph-based long-term memory system for Claude Code that:

  1. Persists knowledge across sessions (projects, decisions, patterns, learnings)
  2. Uses event sourcing for full history (branch, revert, review changes)
  3. Supports tiered retrieval (shallow context → deep subgraph → synthesized)
  4. Enables partnership learning — not just "user preferences" but collaborative knowledge
  5. Runs as an MCP server that CC can query naturally

This is NOT another "remember user likes dark mode" system. This is a shared knowledge graph between human and Claude that grows over time, capturing architectural decisions, learned patterns, open questions, and project understanding.


Architecture Overview

Language: Pure Python with MCP SDK. TypeScript adapter optional for ecosystem compatibility.

Layers:

  • MCP Server (server.py): Handles stdio transport, defines tool schemas
  • Memory Engine (engine.py): Orchestrates all modules
  • Query Service (query.py): Read-only queries — recall, search, health checks, weight inspection
  • Event Store (events.py): SQLite-backed append-only event log (source of truth)
  • State (state.py): Materialized graph computed from events
  • Vectors (vectors.py): sqlite-vec embeddings in same database
  • Retrieval (retrieval.py): Tiered context (shallow/medium/deep)
  • Time Travel (time_travel.py): Event rewind and state restoration
  • Similarity (similarity.py): Duplicate detection and entity matching
  • Branches (branches.py): Filtered views of the knowledge graph
  • Constants (constants.py): Centralized tunable parameters (weights, limits, time constants)
  • Weights (weights.py): Edge weight computation and weighted traversal

Storage (<project>/.claude/memory/):

  • mnemograph.db — SQLite database (events + vectors in one file)
  • state.json — Cached materialized state

Read the full file on GitHub · 274 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.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 274 lines · 2,810 tokens per session scan A 5a3f24a6f7f5

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mnemograph CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tm42/mnemograph (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,810 tokens to every session, about $0.0140 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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