Memory that survives a session
Why an AI agent needs more than the latest chat to understand a continuing project.
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Alex Newman · Claude-Mem
Alex Newman is the creator of Claude-Mem, an open-source project giving AI coding agents memory across sessions. His project has earned more than 100,000 GitHub stars.
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The person behind the work
About Alex
Alex Newman, known on GitHub as @thedotmack, is the creator of Claude-Mem. He is building an answer to a familiar problem in AI-assisted work: a new session can mean explaining the project all over again. His project captures observations from supported coding workflows and turns them into context that can be searched and reused. Claude-Mem is developed publicly with an open-source contributor community, and its GitHub repository has attracted more than 100,000 stars. Alex’s work now includes a free local memory engine and optional hosted services for people who want to carry that context across machines and tools.
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What Claude-Mem is building
Claude-Mem is an open-source memory system for AI agents, originally built around Claude Code and now supporting additional coding tools. It records project observations, summarizes useful context, and makes that history available in later sessions. The local engine is free; CMEM Pro adds optional hosted observation and cloud synchronization.
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Questions around Alex Newman's work
Context from Alex Newman’s work. Full episode and show notes are coming soon.
Finding the useful context
Retrieving a relevant decision or bug fix without reloading an entire work history.
Local memory and connected tools
The balance between keeping project history on a personal machine and making it available across tools.
Building in the open
How a public codebase and contributor community shape a developer tool as it grows.
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