feat: add worker control scripts for start, stop, restart, and status

Changed worker start script

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   "plugins": [
     {
       "name": "claude-mem",
-      "version": "8.0.0",
+      "version": "8.0.4",
       "source": "./plugin",
       "description": "Persistent memory system for Claude Code - context compression across sessions"
     }

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,88 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
+## [8.0.3] - 2025-12-23
+
+Fix critical worker crashes on startup (v8.0.2 regression)
+
+## [8.0.2] - 2025-12-23
+
+New "chill" remix of code mode for users who want fewer, more selective observations.
+
+## Features
+
+- **code--chill mode**: A behavioral variant that produces fewer observations
+  - Only records things "painful to rediscover" - shipped features, architectural decisions, non-obvious gotchas
+  - Skips routine work, straightforward implementations, and obvious changes
+  - Philosophy: "When in doubt, skip it"
+
+## Documentation
+
+- Updated modes.mdx with all 28 language modes (was 10)
+- Added Code Mode Variants section documenting chill mode
+
+## Usage
+
+Set in ~/.claude-mem/settings.json:
+```json
+{
+  "CLAUDE_MEM_MODE": "code--chill"
+}
+```
+
+## [8.0.1] - 2025-12-23
+
+## 🎨 UI Improvements
+
+- **Header Redesign**: Moved documentation and X (Twitter) links from settings modal to main header for better accessibility
+- **Removed Product Hunt Badge**: Cleaned up header layout by removing the Product Hunt badge
+- **Icon Reorganization**: Reordered header icons for improved UX flow (Docs → X → Discord → GitHub)
+
+## [8.0.0] - 2025-12-23
+
+## 🌍 Major Features
+
+### **Mode System**: Context-aware observation capture tailored to different workflows
+- **Code Development mode** (default): Tracks bugfixes, features, refactors, and more
+- **Email Investigation mode**: Optimized for email analysis workflows
+- Extensible architecture for custom domains
+
+### **28 Language Support**: Full multilingual memory
+- Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek
+- Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish
+- Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
+- Ukrainian, Vietnamese
+- All observations, summaries, and narratives generated in your chosen language
+
+### **Inheritance Architecture**: Language modes inherit from base modes
+- Consistent observation types across languages
+- Locale-specific output while maintaining structural integrity
+- JSON-based configuration for easy customization
+
+## 🔧 Technical Improvements
+
+- **ModeManager**: Centralized mode loading and configuration validation
+- **Dynamic Prompts**: SDK prompts now adapt based on active mode
+- **Mode-Specific Icons**: Observation types display contextual icons/emojis per mode
+- **Fail-Fast Error Handling**: Complete removal of silent failures across all layers
+
+## 📚 Documentation
+
+- New docs/public/modes.mdx documenting the mode system
+- 28 translated README files for multilingual community support
+- Updated configuration guide for mode selection
+
+## 🔨 Breaking Changes
+
+- **None** - Mode system is fully backward compatible
+- Default mode is 'code' (existing behavior)
+- Settings: New `CLAUDE_MEM_MODE` option (defaults to 'code')
+
+---
+
+**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem/compare/v7.4.5...v8.0.0
+**View PR**: https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem/pull/412
+
 ## [7.4.5] - 2025-12-21
 
 ## Bug Fixes

docs/public/modes.mdx

@@ -38,20 +38,46 @@ The standard mode for software development. Captures bug fixes, features, refact
 
 **ID:** `code`
 
+### Code Mode Variants
+
+Behavioral variants that change how the code mode operates:
+
+| Variant | Mode ID | Description |
+|---------|---------|-------------|
+| **Chill** | `code--chill` | Produces fewer observations. Only records things "painful to rediscover" - shipped features, architectural decisions, and non-obvious gotchas. Skips routine work and obvious changes. |
+
 ### Multilingual Code Modes
 Inherits all behavior from Code Mode but instructs Claude to generate **all** memory artifacts (titles, narratives, facts, summaries) in the target language.
 
-| Language | Mode ID | Description |
+| Language | Mode ID | Native Name |
 |----------|---------|-------------|
+| **Arabic** | `code--ar` | العربية |
+| **Bengali** | `code--bn` | বাংলা |
 | **Chinese** | `code--zh` | 中文 |
-| **Spanish** | `code--es` | Español |
+| **Czech** | `code--cs` | Čeština |
+| **Danish** | `code--da` | Dansk |
+| **Dutch** | `code--nl` | Nederlands |
+| **Finnish** | `code--fi` | Suomi |
 | **French** | `code--fr` | Français |
 | **German** | `code--de` | Deutsch |
+| **Greek** | `code--el` | Ελληνικά |
+| **Hebrew** | `code--he` | עברית |
+| **Hindi** | `code--hi` | हिन्दी |
+| **Hungarian** | `code--hu` | Magyar |
+| **Indonesian** | `code--id` | Bahasa Indonesia |
+| **Italian** | `code--it` | Italiano |
 | **Japanese** | `code--ja` | 日本語 |
 | **Korean** | `code--ko` | 한국어 |
-| **Portuguese** | `code--pt` | Português |
+| **Norwegian** | `code--no` | Norsk |
+| **Polish** | `code--pl` | Polski |
+| **Portuguese (Brazil)** | `code--pt-br` | Português Brasileiro |
+| **Romanian** | `code--ro` | Română |
 | **Russian** | `code--ru` | Русский |
+| **Spanish** | `code--es` | Español |
+| **Swedish** | `code--sv` | Svenska |
 | **Thai** | `code--th` | ภาษาไทย |
+| **Turkish** | `code--tr` | Türkçe |
+| **Ukrainian** | `code--uk` | Українська |
 | **Vietnamese** | `code--vi` | Tiếng Việt |
 
 ### Email Investigation Mode

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "claude-mem",
-  "version": "8.0.0",
+  "version": "8.0.4",
   "description": "Memory compression system for Claude Code - persist context across sessions",
   "keywords": [
     "claude",
@@ -36,13 +36,13 @@
     "sync-marketplace": "node scripts/sync-marketplace.cjs",
     "sync-marketplace:force": "node scripts/sync-marketplace.cjs --force",
     "build:binaries": "node scripts/build-worker-binary.js",
-    "worker:start": "claude-mem start",
-    "worker:stop": "claude-mem stop",
-    "worker:restart": "claude-mem restart",
-    "worker:status": "claude-mem status",
     "worker:logs": "tail -n 50 ~/.claude-mem/logs/worker-$(date +%Y-%m-%d).log",
     "changelog:generate": "node scripts/generate-changelog.js",
     "discord:notify": "node scripts/discord-release-notify.js",
+    "worker:start": "bun plugin/scripts/worker-cli.js start",
+    "worker:stop": "bun plugin/scripts/worker-cli.js stop",
+    "worker:restart": "bun plugin/scripts/worker-cli.js restart",
+    "worker:status": "bun plugin/scripts/worker-cli.js status",
     "translate-readme": "bun scripts/translate-readme/cli.ts -v -o docs/i18n README.md",
     "translate:tier1": "npm run translate-readme -- zh ja pt-br ko es de fr",
     "translate:tier2": "npm run translate-readme -- he ar ru pl cs nl tr uk",

plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "claude-mem",
-  "version": "8.0.0",
+  "version": "8.0.4",
   "description": "Persistent memory system for Claude Code - seamlessly preserve context across sessions",
   "author": {
     "name": "Alex Newman"

plugin/modes/code--chill.json

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "name": "Code Development (Chill)",
+  "prompts": {
+    "recording_focus": "WHAT TO RECORD (SELECTIVE MODE)\n--------------------------------\nOnly record work that would be painful to rediscover:\n- Features that shipped or bugs that got fixed\n- Architectural decisions and their rationale\n- Non-obvious gotchas you'd regret forgetting\n- Significant refactors that change how code is organized\n\nSkip the obvious stuff:\n- Incremental steps toward a goal (just record the final result)\n- Straightforward implementations that follow established patterns\n- Changes that are clear from reading the code or git history\n\nUse verbs like: implemented, fixed, deployed, decided, discovered, restructured\n\n✅ GOOD (would be painful to rediscover):\n- \"Auth tokens now expire after 24h - security requirement from compliance\"\n- \"Moved from REST to GraphQL for the dashboard - 3x faster load times\"\n- \"SQLite locks under concurrent writes - switched to WAL mode\"\n\n❌ SKIP (obvious from code/git):\n- \"Added error handling to the API endpoint\"\n- \"Created a new component for the form\"\n- \"Updated dependencies to latest versions\"",
+
+    "skip_guidance": "WHEN TO SKIP (BE LIBERAL)\n-------------------------\nSkip routine operations:\n- Empty status checks\n- Package installations\n- Simple file listings\n- Repetitive operations already documented\n- File research that comes back empty\n\nSkip obvious work:\n- Straightforward implementations following existing patterns\n- Minor refactors (rename, extract, inline)\n- Incremental progress toward a larger goal\n- Changes that are self-explanatory from the code\n- Routine config/dependency updates\n- Exploratory code reading without significant findings\n\n**When in doubt, skip it.** Less is more. Only record what you'd be frustrated to figure out again."
+  }
+}

plugin/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "claude-mem-plugin",
-  "version": "8.0.0",
+  "version": "8.0.4",
   "private": true,
   "description": "Runtime dependencies for claude-mem bundled hooks",
   "type": "module",

src/services/worker/DatabaseManager.ts

@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ export class DatabaseManager {
     this.chromaSync = new ChromaSync('claude-mem');
 
     // Start background backfill (fire-and-forget)
-    this.chromaSync.ensureBackfilled();
+    this.chromaSync.ensureBackfilled().catch(error => {
+      logger.error('DB', 'Chroma backfill failed (non-fatal)', {}, error);
+    });
 
     logger.info('DB', 'Database initialized');
   }

src/services/worker/SDKAgent.ts

@@ -435,15 +435,30 @@ export class SDKAgent {
    */
   private findClaudeExecutable(): string {
     const settings = SettingsDefaultsManager.loadFromFile(USER_SETTINGS_PATH);
-    const claudePath = settings.CLAUDE_CODE_PATH ||
-      execSync(process.platform === 'win32' ? 'where claude' : 'which claude', { encoding: 'utf8', windowsHide: true })
-        .trim().split('\n')[0].trim();
-
-    if (!claudePath) {
-      throw new Error('Claude executable not found in PATH');
+    
+    // 1. Check configured path
+    if (settings.CLAUDE_CODE_PATH) {
+      // Lazy load fs to keep startup fast
+      const { existsSync } = require('fs');
+      if (!existsSync(settings.CLAUDE_CODE_PATH)) {
+        throw new Error(`CLAUDE_CODE_PATH is set to "${settings.CLAUDE_CODE_PATH}" but the file does not exist.`);
+      }
+      return settings.CLAUDE_CODE_PATH;
     }
 
-    return claudePath;
+    // 2. Try auto-detection
+    try {
+      const claudePath = execSync(
+        process.platform === 'win32' ? 'where claude' : 'which claude', 
+        { encoding: 'utf8', windowsHide: true, stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'ignore'] }
+      ).trim().split('\n')[0].trim();
+      
+      if (claudePath) return claudePath;
+    } catch (error) {
+      logger.debug('SDK', 'Claude executable auto-detection failed', error);
+    }
+
+    throw new Error('Claude executable not found. Please either:\n1. Add "claude" to your system PATH, or\n2. Set CLAUDE_CODE_PATH in ~/.claude-mem/settings.json');
   }
 
   /**

src/ui/viewer/components/ContextSettingsModal.tsx

@@ -264,29 +264,6 @@ export function ContextSettingsModal({
         <div className="modal-header">
           <h2>Settings</h2>
           <div className="header-controls">
-            <a
-              href="https://docs.claude-mem.ai"
-              target="_blank"
-              rel="noopener noreferrer"
-              title="Documentation"
-              className="modal-icon-link"
-            >
-              <svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeWidth="2" strokeLinecap="round" strokeLinejoin="round">
-                <path d="M4 19.5A2.5 2.5 0 0 1 6.5 17H20"></path>
-                <path d="M6.5 2H20v20H6.5A2.5 2.5 0 0 1 4 19.5v-15A2.5 2.5 0 0 1 6.5 2z"></path>
-              </svg>
-            </a>
-            <a
-              href="https://x.com/Claude_Memory"
-              target="_blank"
-              rel="noopener noreferrer"
-              title="X (Twitter)"
-              className="modal-icon-link"
-            >
-              <svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="currentColor">
-                <path d="M18.244 2.25h3.308l-7.227 8.26 8.502 11.24H16.17l-5.214-6.817L4.99 21.75H1.68l7.73-8.835L1.254 2.25H8.08l4.713 6.231zm-1.161 17.52h1.833L7.084 4.126H5.117z"/>
-              </svg>
-            </a>
             <label className="preview-selector">
               Preview for:
               <select

src/ui/viewer/components/Header.tsx

@@ -26,12 +26,6 @@ export function Header({
   onThemeChange,
   onContextPreviewToggle
 }: HeaderProps) {
-  // Resolve effective theme for Product Hunt badge
-  const isDark = themePreference === 'dark' ||
-    (themePreference === 'system' && window.matchMedia('(prefers-color-scheme: dark)').matches);
-  const phBadgeTheme = isDark ? 'dark' : 'light';
-  const phBadgeUrl = `https://api.producthunt.com/widgets/embed-image/v1/featured.svg?post_id=1045833&theme=${phBadgeTheme}`;
-
   return (
     <div className="header">
       <h1>
@@ -47,20 +41,28 @@ export function Header({
       </h1>
       <div className="status">
         <a
-          href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/claude-mem?embed=true&utm_source=badge-featured&utm_medium=badge&utm_source=badge-claude-mem"
+          href="https://docs.claude-mem.ai"
           target="_blank"
           rel="noopener noreferrer"
-          style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center' }}
+          className="icon-link"
+          title="Documentation"
         >
-          <img
-            src={phBadgeUrl}
-            alt="Claude-Mem on Product Hunt"
-            style={{ width: '180px', height: '40px' }}
-            width="180"
-            height="40"
-          />
+          <svg width="18" height="18" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeWidth="2" strokeLinecap="round" strokeLinejoin="round">
+            <path d="M4 19.5A2.5 2.5 0 0 1 6.5 17H20"></path>
+            <path d="M6.5 2H20v20H6.5A2.5 2.5 0 0 1 4 19.5v-15A2.5 2.5 0 0 1 6.5 2z"></path>
+          </svg>
+        </a>
+        <a
+          href="https://x.com/Claude_Memory"
+          target="_blank"
+          rel="noopener noreferrer"
+          className="icon-link"
+          title="Follow us on X"
+        >
+          <svg width="18" height="18" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="currentColor">
+            <path d="M18.244 2.25h3.308l-7.227 8.26 8.502 11.24H16.17l-5.214-6.817L4.99 21.75H1.68l7.73-8.835L1.254 2.25H8.08l4.713 6.231zm-1.161 17.52h1.833L7.084 4.126H5.117z"/>
+          </svg>
         </a>
-        <GitHubStarsButton username="thedotmack" repo="claude-mem" />
         <a
           href="https://discord.gg/J4wttp9vDu"
           target="_blank"
@@ -72,6 +74,7 @@ export function Header({
             <path d="M20.317 4.37a19.791 19.791 0 0 0-4.885-1.515a.074.074 0 0 0-.079.037c-.21.375-.444.864-.608 1.25a18.27 18.27 0 0 0-5.487 0a12.64 12.64 0 0 0-.617-1.25a.077.077 0 0 0-.079-.037A19.736 19.736 0 0 0 3.677 4.37a.07.07 0 0 0-.032.027C.533 9.046-.32 13.58.099 18.057a.082.082 0 0 0 .031.057a19.9 19.9 0 0 0 5.993 3.03a.078.078 0 0 0 .084-.028a14.09 14.09 0 0 0 1.226-1.994a.076.076 0 0 0-.041-.106a13.107 13.107 0 0 1-1.872-.892a.077.077 0 0 1-.008-.128a10.2 10.2 0 0 0 .372-.292a.074.074 0 0 1 .077-.01c3.928 1.793 8.18 1.793 12.062 0a.074.074 0 0 1 .078.01c.12.098.246.198.373.292a.077.077 0 0 1-.006.127a12.299 12.299 0 0 1-1.873.892a.077.077 0 0 0-.041.107c.36.698.772 1.362 1.225 1.993a.076.076 0 0 0 .084.028a19.839 19.839 0 0 0 6.002-3.03a.077.077 0 0 0 .032-.054c.5-5.177-.838-9.674-3.549-13.66a.061.061 0 0 0-.031-.03zM8.02 15.33c-1.183 0-2.157-1.085-2.157-2.419c0-1.333.956-2.419 2.157-2.419c1.21 0 2.176 1.096 2.157 2.42c0 1.333-.956 2.418-2.157 2.418zm7.975 0c-1.183 0-2.157-1.085-2.157-2.419c0-1.333.955-2.419 2.157-2.419c1.21 0 2.176 1.096 2.157 2.42c0 1.333-.946 2.418-2.157 2.418z"/>
           </svg>
         </a>
+        <GitHubStarsButton username="thedotmack" repo="claude-mem" />
         <select
           value={currentFilter}
           onChange={e => onFilterChange(e.target.value)}