Clarifies that docs/ is a Mintlify documentation site for official
user-facing documentation (.mdx files), while context/ should contain
planning documents, design docs, and internal references.
Lists files currently in docs/ that should be moved to context/:
- typescript-errors.md
- worker-service-*.md files
- processing-indicator-*.md files
- CHROMA.md and chroma-search-completion-plan.md
Co-authored-by: Alex Newman <thedotmack@users.noreply.github.com>
- Complete rewrite of the Worker Service following object-oriented principles.
- Introduced a single long-lived database connection to reduce overhead.
- Implemented event-driven queues to eliminate polling.
- Added DRY utilities for pagination and settings management.
- Reduced code size significantly from 1173 lines to approximately 600-700 lines.
- Created various composed services including DatabaseManager, SessionManager, and SDKAgent.
- Enhanced SSE broadcasting capabilities for real-time client updates.
- Established a structured approach for session lifecycle management and event handling.
- Introduced type safety with shared TypeScript interfaces for better maintainability.
- Added detailed documentation on performance issues within `worker-service.ts`.
- Identified high severity issues including unnecessary polling, artificial delays, and redundant database operations.
- Provided recommendations for immediate and long-term improvements to enhance performance and reduce complexity.
- Suggested architectural changes to replace polling with event-driven patterns and optimize database connection handling.
- Removed fragile PM2 string parsing and replaced with direct PM2 restart logic.
- Eliminated silent error handling in worker-utils.ts for better error visibility.
- Extracted duplicated session auto-creation logic into a new helper method getOrCreateSession() in worker-service.ts.
- Centralized configuration values and replaced magic numbers with named constants.
- Updated health check logic to ensure worker is restarted if unhealthy.
- Removed unnecessary getWorkerPort() wrapper function.
- Improved overall code quality and maintainability by applying DRY and YAGNI principles.
- Removed ensureWorkerRunning calls from multiple hooks (cleanup, context, new, save, summary) to streamline code and avoid unnecessary checks.
- Introduced fixed port usage for worker communication across hooks.
- Enhanced error handling in newHook, saveHook, and summaryHook to provide clearer messages for worker connection issues.
- Updated worker service to start without health checks, relying on PM2 for management.
- Cached Claude executable path to optimize repeated calls.
- Improved logging for better traceability of worker actions and errors.
- Changed user prompt formatting to use full text instead of truncated version.
- Updated date filtering logic to use milliseconds instead of seconds for 90-day cutoff.
- Renamed doc_type values in ChromaSync to ensure consistency and prevent deduplication issues.
- Improved documentation for concept tags in input schema.
- Added `getObservationById` method to retrieve observations by ID in SessionStore.
- Introduced `getSessionSummariesByIds` and `getUserPromptsByIds` methods for fetching session summaries and user prompts by IDs.
- Developed `getTimelineAroundTimestamp` and `getTimelineAroundObservation` methods to provide a unified timeline of observations, sessions, and prompts around a specified anchor point.
- Enhanced ChromaSync to format and sync user prompts, including a new `syncUserPrompt` method.
- Updated WorkerService to sync the latest user prompt to Chroma after updating the worker port.
- Created tests for timeline querying and MCP handler logic to ensure functionality.
- Documented the implementation plan for user prompts and timeline context tool in the Chroma search completion plan.
Corrected incorrect documentation that claimed /clear doesn't inject context.
The SessionStart hook fires with source: "clear" when /clear is used, which
re-injects context from recent sessions. Updated docs to accurately reflect
that /clear both clears conversation AND re-injects fresh context.
Co-authored-by: thedotmack <683968+thedotmack@users.noreply.github.com>
- Changed "Stop Claude" to "Claude finishes responding" to clarify that the Stop hook fires automatically
- Explained Stop hook triggers summary generation automatically, not as a user action
- Added detailed section explaining /clear behavior vs completely exiting Claude Code
- Clarified when new context is injected (new session start, not after /clear)
- Fixed session count: changed "last 3 sessions" to "last 10 sessions" (matches implementation)
Co-authored-by: thedotmack <683968+thedotmack@users.noreply.github.com>
Critical bugfix for NOT NULL constraint violation.
Problem:
- Worker service calls getSessionById(sessionDbId) to fetch session data
- Worker then uses dbSession.claude_session_id to create ActiveSession
- But getSessionById was NOT selecting claude_session_id from database
- Result: claudeSessionId = undefined in worker
- Caused: "NOT NULL constraint failed: sdk_sessions.claude_session_id" errors
- Impact: Observations and summaries couldn't be stored
Root cause:
- SessionStore.getSessionById() SQL query missing claude_session_id column
- Line 710-713: "SELECT id, sdk_session_id, project, user_prompt"
- Should be: "SELECT id, claude_session_id, sdk_session_id, project, user_prompt"
Fix:
- Added claude_session_id to SELECT query in getSessionById
- Updated return type to include claude_session_id: string
- Now worker correctly receives claude_session_id from database
- Session ID from hook flows properly through entire system
Files changed:
- src/services/sqlite/SessionStore.ts (getSessionById method)
Testing:
- Build succeeded
- Ready for PM2 restart and live testing
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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Created docs structure including introduction, installation, troubleshooting, and usage guides.
- Added detailed installation instructions with quick start and advanced options.
- Documented the automatic operation of Claude-Mem and its session management features.
- Introduced MCP search tools with usage examples and query strategies.
- Provided troubleshooting steps for common issues related to worker service, hooks, database, and search tools.
- Included system requirements and upgrade notes for transitioning from v3.x to v4.0.0.
- Created comprehensive installation guide detailing quick start, system requirements, and advanced installation steps.
- Developed troubleshooting guide addressing common issues with worker service, hooks, database, and search tools.
- Introduced getting started documentation explaining automatic operation, session summaries, and context injection.
- Added detailed usage instructions for MCP search tools, including query examples and advanced filtering techniques.
- Added final finalize prompt for session summary generation with required XML fields.
- Introduced recommended prompt flow with structured observation format and hierarchical storage principles.
- Created final init prompt for processing tool executions with clear guidelines on when to store observations.
- Developed final observation prompt for analyzing tool outputs and generating structured observations.
- Migrated old prompt flow to a new system with improved clarity and structured data handling.
- Updated parser and storage mechanisms to accommodate new observation formats and fields.
- Enhanced documentation for new prompts and their usage in memory processing sessions.
- Introduced a new hierarchical memory format for observations, including title, subtitle, facts, narrative, concepts, and files.
- Updated session start, tool execution, and session end prompts to reflect new structure and guidance.
- Replaced bash command execution with XML parsing for observation storage, improving reliability and reducing complexity.
- Established clear criteria for what to store and skip, eliminating ambiguous language and tool-type bias.
- Enhanced database schema to support new observation fields and relationships, ensuring data integrity.
- Added comprehensive session summaries at the end of each session, capturing key insights and next steps.
- Improved retrieval patterns for observations, allowing for granular searches by concept and file.
- Outlined future enhancements for semantic search and cross-session memory linking.
- Added WorkerService to handle long-running HTTP service with session management.
- Implemented endpoints for initializing, observing, finalizing, checking status, and deleting sessions.
- Integrated with Claude SDK for processing observations and generating responses.
- Added port allocator utility to dynamically find available ports for the service.
- Configured TypeScript settings for the project.
- Implemented context-hook.ts for handling session start events.
- Created new-hook.ts for user prompt submission events.
- Developed save-hook.ts for post tool use events.
- Added summary-hook.ts for handling stop events.
- Introduced worker.ts as a standalone background process for the SDK agent.
- Each hook reads input from stdin, processes it, and handles errors gracefully.
- Removed `path-discovery.ts` service and replaced its usage with a new `paths.ts` module.
- Updated all commands and services to utilize the new path constants and helper functions.
- Ensured all necessary directories are created using the new utility functions.
- Improved code readability and maintainability by centralizing path configurations.
- Updated CODEMAP to reflect changes in fallback methods for package root discovery.
- Removed the `detectClaudePath` function and replaced its usage with direct references to `PACKAGE_NAME`.
- Eliminated the `claudePath` property from Settings interface and user settings configuration.
- Cleaned up path discovery logic by removing the npm list command method.
- Removed the `findExecutable` method from the Platform utility as it was no longer needed.
- Updated the published package contents to exclude `hook-templates`.
- Removed references to the hooks directory and related scripts in the installation and uninstallation processes.
- Simplified the status command by eliminating checks for runtime hook scripts.
- Adjusted the path discovery service to remove methods related to hook templates.
- Updated the installation logic to directly configure hooks using CLI commands.
- Cleaned up the uninstall process to remove claude-mem hooks from settings.
- Deleted hook-prompt-renderer.js and hook-prompts.config.js as they are no longer needed.
- Removed path-resolver.js, stop.js, and user-prompt-submit.js for streamlining the codebase.
- Updated package.json scripts to point to new build and publish scripts.
- Adjusted test imports to reflect new directory structure after removing unnecessary files.
- Implemented build.js to bundle TypeScript source into a minified executable using Bun.
- Created publish.js to handle version bumping, building, and publishing to npm with user prompts.
- Added tests for database schema and hook functions in database-schema.test.ts.
- Introduced integration tests for hooks database in hooks-database-integration.test.ts.
- Developed end-to-end tests for SDK prompts and parser in sdk-prompts-parser.test.ts.
- Created session lifecycle tests to simulate complete Claude Code session in session-lifecycle.test.ts.
- Hook system for customization
- Documentation and installation scripts
- Multi-platform support via GitHub releases
- Binaries available for Windows, Linux (x64/ARM64), macOS (Intel/Apple Silicon)
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