verbative-memory
On-device memory system for AI coding agents that captures commands, edits, and test results in a lossless ledger plus distilled facts, then provides selective recall over MCP with tools like remember, recall, search, and ask.
README
Verbative Memory
On-device memory system for AI coding agents — a dual-layer engine (distilled facts + a lossless event ledger), automatically captured and injected, exposed over MCP. Shared across agents, persistent across sessions; stored as plain, human-readable files in your repo — no memory cloud, no vendor database.
This repository is the public home for docs, install help, and issues. The engine is closed-source and ships as a sealed, compiled package — there is no source code here.
How it works — capture everything, recall selectively
- Complete capture, in two layers. Underneath sits a lossless ledger: a mechanical, no-model record of every command, edit, and test result, so "what did we run" and "when did this test start failing" are exact, replayable facts. On top, an on-device model distills that stream into atomic, typed memories — decisions, conventions, and dead ends.
- Selective recall — the two layers fused. A single recall surfaces only the handful of distilled facts that matter (ranked by semantic search and a reranker) and interleaves them, by time, with the exact ledger record around them: what you decided next to what you actually did. One answer, not a dump of the whole history.
- Self-organizing. New facts reconcile against old ones, importance decays on per-type forgetting curves, frequently-recalled facts strengthen, and recurring specifics distill into higher-level insights.
- Yours, on-device. Memories live in human-readable files in your project. Recall makes zero cloud calls.
Requirements
- macOS on Apple silicon. (Windows and Linux are on the roadmap.)
- A Verbative account — Memory is part of the Code Advanced plan and starts with a 14-day free trial. See the plans and the Terms.
Install
Claude Code CLI — automatic capture and recall:
claude mcp add verbative-memory -- npx -y verbative-memory
pip:
pip install verbative-memory
verbative-memory login # sign in with your Verbative account
Any MCP client (mcp.json / stdio):
{ "mcpServers": { "verbative-memory": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "verbative-memory"] } } }
Automatic capture and injection are built for the Claude Code CLI and Codex; any other Model Context Protocol client can call the tools manually. The first run downloads the on-device engine and models once; after that, recall runs fully offline.
More detail in docs/INSTALL.md and at verbative.de/docs/memory.
Tools
remember · recall · search · ask · list · get · pin · forget · revise ·
edit_core · feedback · related · history · timeline · events — and more. See the
docs.
Privacy
Capture, embeddings, reranking, and the knowledge graph all run locally. Your code and memories are not uploaded; the memory files stay in your project and leave your machine only if you choose to share them.
Links
- Overview — https://verbative.de/memory
- Docs — https://verbative.de/docs/memory
- Plans — https://verbative.de/pricing
- Terms — https://verbative.de/legal/terms
- Impressum — https://verbative.de/legal/impressum
Issues
Bug reports and feature requests are welcome in the issue tracker — the place for anything about the docs or the tool. For your account, licensing, or a trial, email info@verbative.de.
Verbative is a product of Cramer Digital. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Anthropic. Verbative works alongside Anthropic's Claude and the Claude Code CLI; those names belong to Anthropic. See LICENSE.
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