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mem-search (Cross-Session Memory Search)

A three-step search → timeline → fetch workflow for querying claude-mem's persistent cross-session memory.

UtilitiesIntermediate★ 92,898⑂ 8,168AI score 7/10Last updated: Sep 1, 2026

What it does

  • Searches the persistent cross-session memory database maintained by claude-mem.
  • Enforces a 3-layer workflow — search (ID index) → timeline (surrounding context) → get_observations (full details for filtered IDs only) — for roughly 10x token savings.
  • Documents every filter parameter: project, date range, observation type (bugfix/feature/decision/discovery/change), ordering, offset, limits.
  • Points to /knowledge-agent when you want synthesized answers instead of raw records.

Who it's for

  • Developers already running the claude-mem plugin/MCP server who revisit past work often.
  • Long-running project teams that keep asking "how did we fix this last time?".
  • Anyone who wants accurate history recall without blowing up context cost.

Examples

  1. "What did we do last week?" → search(type="observations", dateStart="2025-11-11", limit=20, project="my-project")
  2. "Did we already fix the token expiration bug?" → narrow with search(query="bug", obs_type="bugfix"), then get_observations(ids=[11131, 10942])
  3. Need the story around a decision → timeline(anchor=11131, depth_before=5, depth_after=5)

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem.git /tmp/claude-mem && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/claude-mem/plugin/skills/mem-search ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal and clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem.git
  2. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Copy the skill: cp -r claude-mem/plugin/skills/mem-search ~/.claude/skills/
  4. Required: install the claude-mem plugin / MCP server and connect it to Claude Code (follow the repo README). Without it the search, timeline, and get_observations tools don't exist and the skill can't run.
  5. Restart Claude Code and test with a question about a past session, e.g. "how did we solve the auth bug last time?"
View source on GitHub ↗License: Apache-2.0