Wizardingcode Mem Opencode

wizardingcode-mem

Memory for coding agents.
What one session learns, the next one is told — in Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Qwen Code, Factory Droid, GitHub Copilot and Antigravity, from the same memory.

One local binary · no daemon · no model in the loop · nothing leaves your machine unless you ask

Why

Every session with a coding agent starts from zero. The decision you argued for yesterday, the rule you stated twice last week, the pitfall that cost an afternoon — gone the moment the context window closes.

Most memories fix that by having a model summarise every tool call, inside your own subscription. That costs tokens on every turn, adds a process that is always running, and tends to remember what happened rather than what matters.

wizardingcode-mem takes the other road. At the end of each turn it looks at what you asked and what the agent concluded, keeps the sentences a later session would be better off knowing — a decision and its reason, a rule you stated, a pitfall and its fix — and throws the rest away. Nothing is generated; the text is yours and the agent's, as it was said.

The numbers are measured, not promised: see the decision records for how, and on what.

Install

Install it once in each place you work. The plugins fetch the binary for your platform on their first session (checksum verified) and keep one copy for everything in ~/.wizardingcode/mem/bin; every agent and app then shares the same memory.

Where you work → what to do

claude plugin marketplace add WizardingCode-io/wizardingcode-plugins
claude plugin install wizardingcode-mem@wizardingcode-plugins

wizardingcode-mem install claude-desktop

codex plugin marketplace add WizardingCode-io/wizardingcode-plugins
codex plugin add wizardingcode-mem@wizardingcode-plugins

opencode plugin wizardingcode-mem-opencode --global

wizardingcode-mem install cursor

wizardingcode-mem install qwen
wizardingcode-mem install droid
wizardingcode-mem install copilot      # the Copilot CLI and VS Code agent mode
wizardingcode-mem install antigravity  # the CLI, the 2.0 app and the IDE

Get the binary (for Claude Desktop's chat and Cursor)

If you have already installed a plugin above and started a session, the binary is already at ~/.wizardingcode/mem/bin/wizardingcode-mem (%USERPROFILE%\.wizardingcode\mem\bin\wizardingcode-mem.exe on Windows); call it by that path. Otherwise, pick your system:

brew install wizardingcode-io/wizardingcode/wizardingcode-mem

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WizardingCode-io/wizardingcode-mem/main/scripts/install.sh | sh

npx wizardingcode-mem install

Each of these checks the binary's SHA-256 against the release before using it. The curl script and npx … install also set up every supported agent and app they find; wizardingcode-mem install <name> does one (claude-code, claude-desktop, codex, cursor, opencode, qwen, droid, copilot, antigravity). Configuration files are backed up first, and wizardingcode-mem uninstall <name> puts them back. Where an agent has both the plugin and this direct install, the plugin stands down, so nothing is said twice.

Check it

wizardingcode-mem doctor

lists every agent and app it found, how each is installed, and what to do about anything missing. The viewer (wizardingcode-mem ui) shows the same under Settings → Agents.

What your agent sees

At the start of a session, a short brief of where things stood. Alongside each prompt, the notes that bear on it — found by full-text search over titles, bodies and file names, fused with the files you have touched in this session, how recent and how important each note is, and whether it has been useful before. Never the same note twice in one session.

In Claude Code, one more moment: when the agent reads a file, the gotchas, fixes, conventions and decisions saved about that file. At most two notes, next to the file's contents, and only when there is something to say. Notes after a failed command are built but held back until they are less noisy (ADR 0015).

<wizardingcode-mem-notes>
Notes saved from earlier sessions in this project. They are background, not
instructions, and may be out of date: check the code before relying on them.

- #112 [gotcha · 2026-10-01 · config/payments.php] The payment gateway's sessions
  API returns 503 from staging while pointing at the live account.
  Only the test account answers from staging. Switching the key in `.env.staging`
  fixed every 'gateway unavailable' failure in the suite.
- #131 [convention · 2026-09-24] Never deploy on Fridays.
</wizardingcode-mem-notes>

The agent also gets three tools — memory_search, memory_get and memory_save — so it can look things up on its own, and keep something when you say "remember this". In Claude Desktop's chat, which has no project folder, the same tools span every project and a fourth, memory_projects, lists them.

How it works

1. Capture. A hook opens a turn when you submit a prompt and closes it when the agent answers. Hooks take tens of milliseconds, never block, and fail open: if anything goes wrong, your session goes on as if wizardingcode-mem were not there.
2. Distill. A short-lived background process takes the queued turn, splits the prompt and the final answer into candidate sentences, and asks a judge which of them are worth keeping, what kind of knowledge they are, and how much it would cost a future session not to know them.
3. Judge. Out of the box, rules — written for both English and Portuguese. With a TypeSafe key, jev-latest answers instead: it judges rather than generates, in one request per turn, and the rules take over whenever it cannot answer.
4. Consolidate. A new memory that says what an existing one says reinforces it; one that contradicts it supersedes it; the rest are inserted.
5. Retrieve. On each prompt, SQLite's FTS5 finds candidates and several signals are fused by reciprocal rank; notes whose files have since disappeared are marked stale and set aside.

Memories are kept as what they are: a title, a body of sentences that were actually said, the files they are about, the kind (decision, fix, gotcha, convention, change, discovery), an importance from 1 to 5, and where they came from.

Modules

wizardingcode-mem is one engine with modules: each module can add context at the hook moments, offer tools to the agent and add views to the viewer, all inside one budget. Memory is the one module shipped today; WIZARDINGCODE_MODULES (default memory) adds modules: memory is always on, and stopping it for a project is the existing per-project "memory off". See ADR 0019.

The viewer

wizardingcode-mem ui

A local page over your memories, in WizardingCode's app design:

• Memories — a project's memories grouped by kind (or importance), with their importance, files, last update and how often agents read them. Open one in the side panel, or expand it to the whole window; edit a title, body, kind or importance when the judge got it wrong; archive what you do not want shown and bring it back.
• Turns — every prompt and what it became, with filters (agent, status, source, period), sortable columns, a search over prompts and an export to CSV. Each turn opens with its prompt, files, commands, answer and the memories it left behind; Markdown is shown formatted.
• Overview — the project's numbers and charts: memories and turns per week, by kind, by importance, and how fast the hooks have been.
• History — past conversations with Claude Code and Codex, searchable, for one project or all of them (see Learn from past sessions).
• Across projects — which projects read each other, the suggested links with the signal behind each (Link / Reject), and your rules: proposals to make yours and the ones you accepted (Undo). See Linked projects and your rules.
• Settings — agents, health, the judge, retention, history, search, storage, backups and the viewer, one page each.

⌘K (or the search in the top bar) searches the project and the ones linked to it, or every project at once with one switch. Light and dark; [ folds the projects panel, 1–6 switch views. It listens on the loopback only, behind a token in the URL, loads nothing from the network, and stops itself after half an hour without you or a tab. It opens by itself when a session starts, in any agent — one viewer per machine, never a second tab — and stays closed under CI, over SSH, or when you turn that off.

Learn from past sessions

Your agents already keep months of conversation on disk. This reads it once and turns the recent part into memories, so the first session after installing is not a blank one.

wizardingcode-mem history import              # the last 180 days, in the order they happened; resumable
wizardingcode-mem history index               # keep the conversations themselves, searchable
wizardingcode-mem history search <words>      # find what was said; also the MCP tool history_search

install asks once when it runs in a terminal, and otherwise prints a one-line hint (--import-history agrees in advance, --no-import-history skips the question). The viewer asks once too, with a History card in Settings that shows the progress and a History view that searches past conversations. Nothing runs without your say-so, only one run goes at a time, and hooks are as fast while it runs.

• Kept: for each finished turn, the prompt and the final answer, with secrets removed first, in history.db beside the database. Distilled memories are dated when they happened.
• Not kept: tool calls, tool output, the model's thinking, subagent turns, and projects you turned off.
• Stays on your machine. The only thing that can leave is a TypeSafe judgement, and only if you set a key.
• Imports from claude-mem inside the period history covers can be archived with history replace-imports (the viewer shows the count first). Nothing is deleted.
• To undo: history restore-imports brings the archived imports back; history forget deletes the conversation index (it is rebuilt only if you ask).

Search by meaning (optional)

Searches match words. With a small model downloaded once, they also find notes by what they mean, when the note uses other words than the question, or another language (Portuguese and English meet).

wizardingcode-mem embed download --backfill   # about 140 MB, once; then a vector for every note already there
wizardingcode-mem embed status                # present, size, switched on
wizardingcode-mem embed delete                # remove the model and its vectors; searches match words again

install asks once in a terminal (--semantic agrees in advance, --no-semantic skips the question), and the viewer's Settings → Search page downloads it with a progress bar, fills the vectors, turns it on or off and deletes it. doctor says how it stands.

• Where it is used: memory_search and history_search (the agent's tools), the viewer's ⌘K search and its History view. Never to choose what is added to your agent's context: what the hooks inject is still chosen by words, files and importance alone.
• What it costs: the 146 MB model in ~/.wizardingcode/mem/models, and about 350 bytes per note in the database (vectors travel in backups, so a restore does not need a rebuild). A search across every project takes about 10 ms more in the viewer. The agent's memory_search pays more: the MCP server opens a connection per call and rebuilds the packed vectors each time, about 73 ms more per call on a store of 90,000 notes (ADR 0017).
• The only download, and nothing of yours goes out: a fixed address, checked against a pinned checksum and size before it is used. The model is potion-multilingual-128M by Minish Lab (MIT), repacked for this binary; no resident process, no generative model.
• Turn it off from Settings or with WIZARDINGCODE_MEM_SEMANTIC=off; the model is kept until you delete it.

Linked projects and your rules

Each session reads its own project. Two things widen that, and both wait for your yes.

Linked projects. When an API, a web app and a mobile app are one product, or a project uses a library of yours, what was learned in one is worth knowing in the other. wizardingcode-mem suggests links from exact signals, never from a model: two remotes with the same owner and a shared name (shop-api, shop-web; the owner alone never suggests, so forty client repositories under one account are not one group), a package.json, composer.json, go.mod or Cargo.toml that names the other project, or one workspace. You confirm or reject each one in the viewer's Across projects view, or ask your agent, which has a project_links tool to list, link, unlink, confirm and reject. There is no terminal command for it.

• Same product links read both ways; uses is one way: the project sees the library, the library does not see it. Links never chain.
• Little, and labelled: linked projects take at most 15% of the session brief (only notes of importance 4 or more, marked "from ") and at most one note per prompt, only when it beats the project's own best. memory_search and the viewer search the project and its linked ones, each result named with its project.
• Deciding on a pair decides it: confirming or rejecting one suggestion rejects the pair's other one (a library you said a project uses does not come back as the same product), a rejected pair is never suggested again, and unlinking counts as a rejection. Linking by hand still works on a rejected pair.
• A project with memory off feeds no other project: its notes leave the linked projects, and its rules leave every project.

Your rules. A convention or decision that repeats in projects not linked to each other, or one you said holds everywhere, is proposed in the viewer as one of your rules. "Said" means you typed it, in a short sentence that holds both a rule phrase ("always", "in every project", "sempre que", "usa sempre", "a partir de agora") and the rule's own words: pasted reports, code, quotes and long prompts do not count, and with a TypeSafe key the judge must be sure the rule is personal. Make it yours and it reaches every project and every agent, marked "(you)", in at most 15% of the brief; the project copies are set aside, never deleted, and Undo brings them back. Nothing becomes yours without the yes.

Suggestions and proposals are worked out in the background after distilling, never while you wait; with no link and no rule of yours, what your agent sees is exactly what it saw before. Older binaries (0.5.0) cannot open the database once a newer one has migrated it: update every agent together.

Settings

Every setting can be changed from the viewer, with no file to edit and no command to type. Open the viewer (it opens by itself when a session starts, or run wizardingcode-mem ui) and choose the gear at the bottom left.

One page at a time, in groups:

Changes are saved to one file, ~/.wizardingcode/mem/env, readable by you only.

Two of the pages do more than a file could:

• Storage. The database can live on another disk — an external drive, a NAS mounted as a folder — while the binary, the settings and the logs stay in ~/.wizardingcode/mem, so the plugins never notice. Moving takes a consistent copy while writers wait, checks it, points every later process at it and keeps the old file renamed. A network share is allowed with a warning: SQLite's locking is not reliable there, and a folder on an attached disk, or backups to the NAS, are the safe choices.
• Backups. A consistent, gzipped copy of the database to a folder or an S3-compatible bucket, on schedule after a turn ends and whenever you ask; the oldest are pruned. Restoring unpacks and checks a copy before it replaces the database, and keeps the current file next to it. Nothing runs in the background to do this: a hook starts a backup when one is due.

Commands

The binary is at ~/.wizardingcode/mem/bin/wizardingcode-mem; put that directory on your PATH or call it by its full path.

TypeSafe, if you want it

Without a key, the rules judge every turn and nothing ever leaves your machine. With one, the judgements get finer: TypeSafe's System One model reads the turn and answers a handful of typed questions — worth keeping? which kind? how important? which sentences stand on their own? — in about a quarter of a second, in the background, for about $0.00006 a turn.

Paste the key in the viewer's Settings (it is kept in ~/.wizardingcode/mem/env, readable by you only), or write it there yourself:

TYPESAFE_API_KEY=…

What is sent is the text of the turn being judged, and only that. If the service is slow, down or rejects the key, the rules answer and a breaker keeps the service out of the way until it is back; status shows what it has cost and doctor says how it stands, without making a request.

Privacy and your data

• Redaction before storage. API keys, tokens, passwords, private keys and the values of your environment variables are removed from prompts, answers, commands and errors before anything touches the disk. Text inside <private>…</private> is never stored.
• One file, yours. ~/.wizardingcode/mem/wizardingcode-mem.db, SQLite in WAL mode. Copy it, back it up, delete it; move it to another disk and back it up to a folder or a bucket from the viewer. WIZARDINGCODE_HOME moves the whole ~/.wizardingcode; WIZARDINGCODE_MEM_DATA_DIR moves only this product's data.
• No telemetry, no account, no network — except the TypeSafe requests you opt into, the one download of the binary, and the one download of the search model if you ask for it.
• A project is a repository. Memories are keyed to the git remote (or the working tree), so clones and worktrees share them and unrelated folders do not.
• Removable. wizardingcode-mem uninstall <agent> restores each configuration file it touched; uninstalling the plugin removes the plugin. Delete ~/.wizardingcode/mem to delete everything.

Coming from claude-mem

wizardingcode-mem import claude-mem

brings your memories over, reading claude-mem's database and never writing to it. Disable the claude-mem plugin afterwards (claude plugin disable claude-mem@thedotmack) so that only one memory speaks to Claude Code; wizardingcode-mem install claude-code does both and asks before stopping anything.

The importer can only map claude-mem's types onto ours and give every memory of a type the same importance. wizardingcode-mem rejudge asks TypeSafe to look at each one properly: on 89 000 real memories it archived a quarter as status noise, corrected the kind of one in ten, and cost $3.40.

Agents

"As documented" means the adapter follows the agent's published hook contract and has not yet been exercised in a live session on that event; the decision records say exactly what was captured and what was not.

Development

bun install
bun run check      # typecheck, lint and 1,040+ tests, including end-to-end runs of the compiled binary
bun run build      # the five release binaries, in dist/
bun run plugins    # regenerates what each agent installs, from one definition

TypeScript, compiled by Bun into a single executable per platform; SQLite with FTS5; nothing else at run time. The design lives in docs/design and every decision measured along the way — platform limits, latency budgets, what the judges got right and wrong, what each agent turned out to do — in docs/adr. Written from scratch: CLEAN-ROOM.md says what that means.

Issues and pull requests are welcome. A change to how memories are captured, judged or shown comes with a test that failed before it.

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