claude-mem at 104,793 Stars: One LLM Call per Tool Event, a 400,000-Character History, and a 10,000-Character Ceiling That Fails Silently

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

claude-mem is a memory plugin for coding agents: it hooks the lifecycle events of Claude Code (and OpenCode, Codex, Pi, Grok Bot, OpenClaw, Hermes, and others), compresses what the agent did into “observations”, stores them in SQLite plus Chroma, and injects a summary back at the start of the next session. It has 104,793 stars, 9,241 forks, and 320 watchers, and version 15.7.0 was tagged in the last few days.

The interesting part is not that it exists. It is that the version you install in October 2026 configures three things at once, and each one has a number attached that the README does not put in one place: who pays for the compression, how much of your session gets re-read on every event, and how many characters of context are allowed to arrive before it silently arrives as nothing.

Hook Lifecycle on SoloSoft

claude-mem at 104,793 Stars: One LLM Call per Tool Event, a 400,000-Character History, and a 10,000-Character Ceiling That Fails Silently