lean-memory CLAUDE.md

Project instructions for lean-memory, a software project whose stated direction is to improve the first-run experience and then launch through MCP channels. MCP is a standard way for AI tools to connect to external services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them as required context before changing the project, especially when working on the launch quality gate, benchmarks, or the MCP launch plan.
Why use it?
They give contributors the approved strategy and implementation plan, so work follows the project’s current decisions rather than an older direction.

Instructions file

Install

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npx agentmods add instructions/wuesteon/lean-memory/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wuesteon/lean-memory
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Security

Grade A, and why

lean-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 2d ago.

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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 · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

⚠️ START HERE: strategy is quality-gate → MCP launch (2026-07-08)

Approved direction: close a small, hard quality gate on the first-run experience, then launch across MCP channels (Pure A). Read before any work:

  1. docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-08-strategic-direction-design.md — the approved strategy (positioning, the six-item quality gate, launch plan, the six-week post-launch demand read). Non-negotiable context; do not re-derive.
  2. docs/superpowers/plans/2026-07-08-launch-quality-gate.md — the ordered implementation plan that executes the gate.

State: the former "Phase 2 suspended, fix engine then re-run benchmarks" framing is superseded. Engine-fix backlog items 1–3 are FIXED on launch-gate (numbers are the source of truth in bench/results/calibration/README.md):

  • Escalation recalibration — endpoint-scoped coref + prior_entity trigger dropped (two user-approved amendments); real-turn escalation 95.9% → 14.6% at the frozen (typing=0.4, conf=0.4) operating point; goldset 10.1% → 7.6%. BET-2 revalidation PASSES all three gates.
  • Extraction granularity — GLiNER DEFAULT_THRESHOLD 0.1 → 0.4; 8.43 → 3.67 facts/turn.
  • Recency anchoringMemory.search(now=...) forwards search-time now (wall-clock default unchanged).

Benchmark runs (LongMemEval/LoCoMo) are DEFERRED past the MCP launch per the spec — they are a post-launch credibility layer, not the critical path. The harness (bench/phase2_*.py) is complete and needs no changes for the eventual re-run.

Gate item 5 is CLOSED (secrets rotated 2026-07-11 — revoked in dashboards, local copies deleted; harness branch merged and labels removed). A 2026-07-12 publish-readiness review board found three launch blockers on the v0.1.2 MCP first-run path plus packaging majors — all fixed as v0.1.3 (tagged 2026-07-12; see CHANGELOG.md). Post-gate, WP10a sleep-time maintenance (PR #3) and WP10b review UI (PR #4) merged 2026-07-16/17 — offline dedupe/summarize/evict with a human review queue over MCP and the console; default-off, first-run path pinned byte-identical; design + verification record in docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-16-sleep-time-maintenance-design.md. WP1 launch execution shipped (2026-07-21): v0.2.0 (2026-07-17, feature release) and v0.2.1 (2026-07-21, metadata-only, PR #5) are tagged and released; MCP Registry and PyPI (lean-memory + lean-memory-console) are LIVE at 0.2.1; v0.2.2 (2026-07-29, patch) pinned mcp>=1.2,<2 (mcp 2.0.0 removed mcp.server.fastmcp, breaking fresh installs) and shipped the WP11 write-time restatement dedupe; v0.2.3 (2026-07-29, patch) adds dual-path mcp 1.x/2.x support (pin >=1.2,<3, WP12), fixes the 2.0 worker-thread SQLite crash, and ships the WP13 tool metadata (Glama re-scan) and WP2 update-integrity benchmark; v0.2.4 (2026-08-06, patch) ships the WP14 console MCP tool metadata; v0.3.0 (2026-08-07, minor — the current release) ships WP15 entity name collation (entity.name_key, schema v3 in-place migration, one-way downgrade — hence minor not patch), the lowercase-first-person extractor fix, and the WP2 mem0 comparison arm with a published fully-local run (issues #13–#15, #17 all closed 2026-08-06/07; only #16 signal-watch and #18 six-week checkpoint remain open). Channel-posts decision (user, 2026-07-29): the remaining posts are OPTIONAL, not launch-required — the Claude Code plugin marketplace form (platform.claude.com/plugins/submit) and the Show HN / r/ClaudeAI / r/LocalLLaMA posts may go out whenever (or never); final copy stays ready in docs/launch/launch-copy.md, runbook in docs/launch/launch-checklist.md. awesome-mcp-servers PR #9890 MERGED 2026-07-22 (found 2026-08-06 — earlier "in review" framing was stale), so that channel has been live since one week before window start. The six-week demand read (spec §4) runs on the live channels (MCP Registry + PyPI + awesome-mcp-servers), window start 2026-07-29 (v0.2.2); if further posts go out later, note the date so the read can be segmented. Demand-read caveat (2026-08-06): the repo's 47 stars / 44 forks are a synthetic bot burst on 2026-07-22 (Faker-style accounts, all created 2026-06-27) — exclude from the read; organic GitHub social signal is ~3 stars.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 2d ago First seen · 92 lines · 1,646 tokens per session scan A c82a42219427

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lean-memory CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Wuesteon/lean-memory (47 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,646 tokens to every session, about $0.0082 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 2026-08-30.

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