- Delete separate desktop-skill/ directory (was outdated)
- Generate mem-search.zip during build from plugin/skills/mem-search/
- Update docs with correct MCP tool list and new download path
- Single source of truth for Claude Desktop skill
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* feat: Add batch fetching for observations and update documentation
- Implemented a new endpoint for fetching multiple observations by IDs in a single request.
- Updated the DataRoutes to include a POST /api/observations/batch endpoint.
- Enhanced SKILL.md documentation to reflect changes in the search process and batch fetching capabilities.
- Increased the default limit for search results from 5 to 40 for better usability.
* feat!: Fix timeline parameter passing with SearchManager alignment
BREAKING CHANGE: Timeline MCP tools now use standardized parameter names
- anchor_id → anchor
- before → depth_before
- after → depth_after
- obs_type → type (timeline tool only)
Fixes timeline endpoint failures caused by parameter name mismatch between
MCP layer and SearchManager. Adds new SessionStore methods for fetching
prompts and session summaries by ID.
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* docs: reframe timeline parameter fix as bug fix, not breaking change
The timeline tools were completely broken due to parameter name mismatch.
There's nothing to migrate from since the old parameters never worked.
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* Refactor mem-search documentation and optimize API tool definitions
- Updated SKILL.md to emphasize batch fetching for observations, clarifying usage and efficiency.
- Removed deprecated tools from mcp-server.ts and streamlined tool definitions for clarity.
- Enhanced formatting in FormattingService.ts for better output readability.
- Adjusted SearchManager.ts to improve result headers and removed unnecessary search tips from combined text.
* Refactor FormattingService and SearchManager for table-based output
- Updated FormattingService to format search results as tables, including methods for formatting observations, sessions, and user prompts.
- Removed JSON format handling from SearchManager and streamlined result formatting to consistently use table format.
- Enhanced readability and consistency in search tips and formatting logic.
- Introduced token estimation for observations and improved time formatting.
* refactor: update documentation and API references for version bump and search functionalities
* Refactor code structure for improved readability and maintainability
* chore: change default model from haiku to sonnet
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* feat: unify timeline formatting across search and context services
Extract shared timeline formatting utilities into reusable module to align
MCP search output format with context-generator's date/file-grouped format.
Changes:
- Create src/shared/timeline-formatting.ts with reusable utilities
(parseJsonArray, formatDateTime, formatTime, formatDate, toRelativePath,
extractFirstFile, groupByDate)
- Refactor context-generator.ts to use shared utilities
- Update SearchManager.search() to use date/file grouping
- Add search-specific row formatters to FormattingService
- Fix timeline methods to extract actual file paths from metadata
instead of hardcoding 'General'
- Remove Work column from search output (kept in context output)
Result: Consistent date/file-grouped markdown formatting across both
systems while maintaining their different column requirements.
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* refactor: remove redundant legend from search output
Remove legend from search/timeline results since it's already shown
in SessionStart context. Saves ~30 tokens per search result.
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* Refactor session summary rendering to remove links
- Removed link generation for session summaries in context generation and search manager.
- Updated output formatting to exclude links while maintaining the session summary structure.
- Adjusted related components in TimelineService to ensure consistency across the application.
* fix: move skillPath declaration outside try block to fix scoping bug
The skillPath variable was declared inside the try block but referenced
in the catch block for error logging. Since const is block-scoped, this
would cause a ReferenceError when the error handler executes.
Moved skillPath declaration before the try block so it's accessible in
both try and catch scopes.
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* fix: address PR #317 code review feedback
**Critical Fixes:**
- Replace happy_path_error__with_fallback debug calls with proper logger methods in mcp-server.ts
- All HTTP API calls now use logger.debug/error for consistent logging
**Code Quality Improvements:**
- Extract 90-day recency window magic numbers to named constants
- Added RECENCY_WINDOW_DAYS and RECENCY_WINDOW_MS constants in SearchManager
**Documentation:**
- Document model cost implications of Haiku → Sonnet upgrade in CHANGELOG
- Provide clear migration path for users who want to revert to Haiku
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* refactor: simplify CHANGELOG - remove cost documentation
Removed model cost comparison documentation per user feedback.
Kept only the technical code quality improvements.
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- Removed all instances of happy_path_error__with_fallback from various hooks, services, and utilities.
- Introduced logger.happyPathError for consistent logging of unexpected nulls and fallback values.
- Updated the logger utility to include a new happyPathError method with enhanced context and stack trace.
- Deprecated silent-debug utility as all logging functionality has been migrated to the logger.
- Enhanced error handling in summary generation by using fallback messages for missing assistant messages.
- Updated the `buildSummaryPrompt` function to streamline the retrieval of the last assistant message.
- Improved the `extractLastMessage` function to log errors when transcript files are missing or empty, and to ensure proper handling of messages without content.
- Added checks to ensure that messages of the specified role are found in the transcript, with appropriate logging for missing messages.
- Refactored the logging mechanism to provide clearer insights into processing failures and successes.
Release v7.2.0
New Features:
- Automated bug report generator with Claude Agent SDK
- npm run bug-report command with interactive prompts
- Auto-translates foreign languages to English
- Collects comprehensive system diagnostics
- Streams generation progress with character count
- Auto-sanitizes paths for privacy
- Opens GitHub with pre-filled issue
- Updated README and issue templates with bug report instructions
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- Added a new line after the command to run for restarting the worker in the error message.
- Included an additional instruction to restart Claude Code after running the worker restart command.
* Enhance error logging in hooks
- Added detailed error logging in context-hook, new-hook, save-hook, and summary-hook to capture status, project, port, and relevant session information on failures.
- Improved error messages thrown in save-hook and summary-hook to include specific context about the failure.
* Refactor migration logging to use console.log instead of console.error
- Updated SessionSearch and SessionStore classes to replace console.error with console.log for migration-related messages.
- Added notes in the documentation to clarify the use of console.log for migration messages due to the unavailability of the structured logger during constructor execution.
* Refactor SDKAgent and silent-debug utility to simplify error handling
- Updated SDKAgent to use direct defaults instead of happy_path_error__with_fallback for non-critical fields such as last_user_message, last_assistant_message, title, filesRead, filesModified, concepts, and summary.request.
- Enhanced silent-debug documentation to clarify appropriate use cases for happy_path_error__with_fallback, emphasizing its role in handling unexpected null/undefined values while discouraging its use for nullable fields with valid defaults.
* fix: correct happy_path_error__with_fallback usage to prevent false errors
Fixes false "Missing cwd" and "Missing transcript_path" errors that were
flooding silent.log even when values were present.
Root cause: happy_path_error__with_fallback was being called unconditionally
instead of only when the value was actually missing.
Pattern changed from:
value: happy_path_error__with_fallback('Missing', {}, value || '')
To correct usage:
value: value || happy_path_error__with_fallback('Missing', {}, '')
Fixed in:
- src/hooks/save-hook.ts (PostToolUse hook)
- src/hooks/summary-hook.ts (Stop hook)
- src/services/worker/http/routes/SessionRoutes.ts (2 instances)
Impact: Eliminates false error noise, making actual errors visible.
Addresses issue #260 - users were seeing "Missing cwd" errors despite
Claude Code correctly passing all required fields.
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* Enhance error logging and handling across services
- Improved error messages in SessionStore to include project context when fetching boundary observations and timestamps.
- Updated ChromaSync error handling to provide more informative messages regarding client initialization failures, including the project context.
- Enhanced error logging in WorkerService to include the package path when reading version fails.
- Added detailed error logging in worker-utils to capture expected and running versions during health checks.
- Extended WorkerErrorMessageOptions to include actualError for more informative restart instructions.
* Refactor error handling in hooks to use standardized fetch error handler
- Introduced a new error handler `handleFetchError` in `shared/error-handler.ts` to standardize logging and user-facing error messages for fetch failures across hooks.
- Updated `context-hook.ts`, `new-hook.ts`, `save-hook.ts`, and `summary-hook.ts` to utilize the new error handler, improving consistency and maintainability.
- Removed redundant imports and error handling logic related to worker restart instructions from the hooks.
* feat: add comprehensive error handling tests for hooks and ChromaSync client
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Fixes ENOENT error on first install when ~/.claude-mem/ directory
doesn't exist yet. The startWorker() function tried to write the
.pm2-migrated marker file without first creating the parent directory.
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Removes bun-wrapper indirection. Hooks are compiled JavaScript that work perfectly with Node. Worker still uses Bun where performance matters. Fixes#264
Enhancement to process leak fix from v7.1.9 - automatically detects and
kills orphaned chroma-mcp processes when the worker starts.
Changes:
- Added cleanupOrphanedProcesses() method to WorkerService
- Scans for existing chroma-mcp processes on startup
- Kills all found processes before creating new ones
- Logs cleanup activity (process count and PIDs)
- Non-fatal error handling (continues on cleanup failure)
Benefits:
- Automatically recovers from pre-7.1.9 process leaks
- Ensures clean slate on every worker restart
- No manual intervention needed to cleanup orphans
- Prevents accumulation even if v7.1.9 close() fails
Verified working in logs:
[INFO] [SYSTEM] Cleaning up orphaned chroma-mcp processes {count=2, pids=33753,33750}
[INFO] [SYSTEM] Orphaned processes cleaned up {count=2}
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Critical bugfix: ChromaSync now properly cleans up chroma-mcp subprocesses
when the worker is restarted, preventing memory exhaustion from orphaned
processes accumulating over time.
Changes:
- Store reference to StdioClientTransport subprocess
- Explicitly close transport in close() method to kill subprocess
- Add error handling to ensure cleanup even on failures
- Reset all state in finally block
Problem:
Each worker restart spawned a new chroma-mcp process but never killed the
old one. After multiple restarts, orphaned processes accumulated (16+ seen
in production), consuming 900MB+ RAM and eventually causing OOM kills that
silently failed backfills.
Impact:
- Eliminates process accumulation
- Prevents memory exhaustion from leaked subprocesses
- Fixes silent backfill failures caused by OOM kills
- Ensures graceful cleanup on worker shutdown
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Removed the process.type = 'renderer' workaround that was causing libuv
assertion failures on Windows. This hack was attempting to hide console
windows but resulted in crashes when process.title was accessed.
Prioritizing stability over cosmetics - console windows may briefly appear
on Windows until the MCP SDK provides proper window hiding support.
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- Updated multiple hooks (context-hook, new-hook, save-hook, summary-hook, user-message-hook) to throw errors using `getWorkerRestartInstructions` for improved user guidance on worker connection issues.
- Enhanced `handleWorkerError` function to utilize the new error message generator for consistent error reporting.
- Modified `ensureWorkerRunning` function to provide detailed instructions based on the worker's state, including port information.
- Introduced `getWorkerRestartInstructions` utility in `error-messages.ts` to generate platform-aware error messages for worker failures.
On Windows systems, `localhost` resolves to IPv6 (::1) while the worker
binds to IPv4 (127.0.0.1), causing MCP tool connections to fail.
This change uses the existing getWorkerHost() function which correctly
returns the configured host address (defaulting to 127.0.0.1).
Fixes connection failures on Windows where localhost prefers IPv6.
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* fix: add npm fallback when bun install fails with alias packages
Bun has issues resolving npm alias packages (e.g., string-width-cjs,
strip-ansi-cjs, wrap-ansi-cjs) that are defined in package-lock.json.
When bun fails with 404 errors for these packages, we now fall back
to npm which handles aliases correctly.
This fixes the installation failure that many users are experiencing
where bun install fails with:
error: GET https://registry.npmjs.org/string-width-cjs/-/string-width-cjs-4.2.3.tgz - 404
The fallback is transparent to users - they will see a warning message
and the installation will continue with npm.
Fixes#262
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* fix: preserve original code style (single quotes)
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Updated built plugin files with latest changes including localhost
binding security improvements and enhanced runtime detection.
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🐛 Bug Fixes
**Windows Installation**
- Fixed Bun PATH detection on Windows after fresh install
- Added fallback to check common install paths before PATH reload
- Improved smart-install.js to use full Bun path when not in PATH
- Added proper path quoting for Windows usernames with spaces
**Worker Startup**
- Fixed worker connection failures in Stop hook
- Added health check retry loop (5 attempts, 500ms intervals)
- Worker now waits up to 2.5s for responsiveness before returning
- Improved error detection for Bun's ConnectionRefused error format
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- Updated all version files
- Updated CHANGELOG with v7.1.1 release notes
- Critical fixes: Windows Bun auto-install, path quoting
- New feature: Automatic worker restart on version updates
Critical improvement for seamless upgrades across all versions.
Changes:
1. Added /api/version endpoint to worker service
- Returns current worker version from package.json
2. Added version checking in worker-utils.ts
- getPluginVersion() - reads plugin's package.json version
- getWorkerVersion() - fetches version from worker API
- ensureWorkerVersionMatches() - compares and restarts if needed
3. Modified ensureWorkerRunning()
- Now calls ensureWorkerVersionMatches() after health check
- Automatically restarts worker when version mismatch detected
- Logs version mismatch for debugging
Impact:
- Users no longer need to manually restart worker after upgrades
- Eliminates connection errors from running old worker code
- Critical for v7.1.1 (Bun auto-install) and all future releases
- Fixes the issue where PR #236 changes weren't applied until manual restart
Testing:
- Version endpoint working: returns {"version":"7.1.0"}
- Worker health check: passing
- Auto-restart logic: triggers on version mismatch
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CRITICAL FIX: v7.1.0 Bun auto-install broken on Windows 11
Problem:
- hooks.json calls `bun smart-install.js` but if Bun isn't installed,
command fails immediately with "bun is not recognized"
- smart-install.js never runs, so Bun never gets installed
- Chicken-and-egg problem
Root Cause:
- v7.1.0 removed Bun/uv auto-installation logic from smart-install.js
- Assumed Bun would already be available
- Breaks fresh installations on all platforms
Solution:
1. Changed SessionStart hook to use `node` for smart-install.js
(Node.js always available in Claude Code)
2. Restored Bun auto-installation logic:
- isBunInstalled() - check if Bun is in PATH
- installBun() - auto-install via PowerShell (Windows) or curl (Unix/macOS)
- Also restored uv auto-installation for Chroma
After Fix:
- smart-install.js runs with node (always available)
- Detects if Bun is missing and auto-installs it
- Subsequent hooks use bun successfully
- Works on fresh Windows installations
Fixes: User report from Discord - Windows 11 'bun' is not recognized
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Wraps all ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable expansions with quotes to handle
Windows paths containing spaces (e.g., C:\Users\John Doe\.claude\...).
Without quotes, the shell splits the path at spaces, causing Node.js to
interpret the first segment as JavaScript and throw SyntaxError: Unexpected
token ':'.
This fix updates the Bun migration (v7.1.0) to include proper quoting,
superseding PR #212 which was based on pre-migration code.
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Previously skipped Windows PM2 cleanup based on assumption that PM2
wasn't used on Windows. However, this left potential orphaned processes.
Changes:
- Remove platform check (process.platform !== 'win32')
- Run PM2 cleanup on Mac/Linux/Windows consistently
- Create .pm2-migrated marker on all platforms
- Update documentation to reflect cross-platform behavior
Rationale:
- Quality migration should clean up ALL orphaned processes
- Error handling (try/catch) already makes this safe
- Even if PM2 had Windows issues, cleanup won't hurt
- Consistent behavior across platforms is better UX
Impact:
- Windows users will get PM2 cleanup on first hook trigger
- Marker file now created on Windows (prevents repeated attempts)
- No breaking changes (errors caught and ignored)
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- Implemented a method to check if Bun is available in the system PATH.
- Updated the startWithBun method to return an error if Bun is not found.
- Enhanced PID file parsing to validate required fields and their types.
- Cleaned up stale PID files if the process is no longer alive.
fix(SettingsRoutes): clear port cache after updating settings
- Added a call to clearPortCache after writing updated settings to ensure the application uses the latest configuration.
- Updated shebangs in user-message-hook.js, worker-cli.js, and worker-service.cjs to use Bun instead of Node.
- Modified build-hooks.js to generate Bun-compatible shebangs in built scripts.
- Enhanced sync-marketplace.cjs to trigger a worker restart after syncing files via an HTTP request.
- Improved worker-cli.ts to exit with appropriate status codes after executing commands.
- Added build-worker-binary.js to create a Windows executable for the worker service using Bun's compile feature.
- Replaced hardcoded migration port with dynamic port retrieval using `getWorkerPort()` in worker-cli.ts.
- Updated context generator to clarify error handling comments.
- Introduced timeout constants in ProcessManager for better maintainability.
- Configured SQLite settings using constants for mmap size and cache size in DatabaseManager.
- Added timeout constants for Git and NPM commands in BranchManager.
- Enhanced error logging in FormattingService and SearchManager to provide more context on failures.
- Removed deprecated silentDebug function and replaced its usage with logger.debug.
- Updated tests to use dynamic worker port retrieval instead of hardcoded values.
- Introduced `/api/admin/restart` and `/api/admin/shutdown` endpoints in WorkerService for restarting and shutting down the service.
- Updated error message in hook-error-handler to provide clearer instructions for restarting the worker.
- Refactored worker-utils to remove PM2 dependency and implement ProcessManager for starting the worker service.
- Cleaned up legacy PM2 references and provided new manual start instructions.
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