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Build a Local, Bitemporal Memory System for Claude Projects

I built a local memory system for Claude that is a bit different from others I have seen. The reason was familiar: repeated context loss and gaps, even within projects. I am not technical—I come from a healthcare background—so it was essentially vibe-coded, but I used a method I had not seen elsewhere. I started by interviewing Claude about what would be useful to it, rather than beginning with only what I wanted. The three biggest gaps were the rationale behind decisions, current versus historical states, and the difference between global and project-level detail. We also identified ways memory can go wrong, including stale facts being confidently asserted as truth and rejected ideas resurfacing. Claude’s built-in memory stores flat topics without entity links, captures what but not why, is not well temporally grounded, and is gated by Claude. I researched other memory builds, from homebrew systems to enterprise tools, and found that they generally fell into three groups: - Vector dumps, which lack rationale and supersession and can become stale - Plain Markdown with grep or embeddings, such as Basic Memory, which similarly lacks real temporal grounding and an entity graph - Heavyweight knowledge-graph stacks such as Neo4j, LangChain, and GraphRAG None of these did what I wanted. My store holds entities only, not transcripts. It stores decisions, observations, people, and projects connected by typed edges. Each entry has content, a scope—either portfolio-worthy or working detail for one project—a rationale, and information about where it came from. The system is also bitemporal, so it distinguishes what is current from what is not. Nothing is edited in place: a correction adds a new assertion instead of overwriting the old one. Underneath, it uses SQLite, with sqlite-vec for semantic search and FTS5 for keyword search. Nothing writes automatically. Claude has to propose a memory, and I have to approve it. This prevents the store from filling with noise, keeps it token-efficient, and acts as a governance lever. MCP links Claude to my server. It is local-only at present, although there is potential to add remote access in the future. The server provides instructions for making proposals, so the system is theoretically portable, and I also created a Claude skill to accompany it. I ran the build across multiple projects and created specialist projects for different roles: - A central development and oversight project served as the decision-maker and prompt-writer. - Cowork handled the building and tested each module inside a sandbox. It had no authority to change decisions, and I used a fresh project for each stage of the build. - I handled deployment separately by typing every command on the server and pasting the output back. - I repeated Claude’s Cowork-authored tests on the actual server. Real-world testing after deployment identified only minor issues, which were quick to fix. This separation was administratively heavy because I had to keep switching between projects as tasks started and finished, but it caught several errors in the rules and code. Despite my lack of technical knowledge, the project is now well documented and I have room to develop it further. I may eventually put it on GitHub. It has become a standard component of my workflows, my projects are tracked much better, and Claude and I are on the same page more often.

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Build a Persistent AI Coding Environment for Reliable Production Work

After about 18 months of building software with AI, I realized that reliability wasn't primarily a model problem. Bigger context windows and more clever prompts didn't fix it. What did help was treating the AI like a developer joining an existing team instead of like a chatbot. Real developers don't work from memory. They inspect production, read the documentation, check the tickets, and use proven tools. I built an environment that lets the AI do the same. The workflow is tool-agnostic, so it can be rebuilt with whatever AI client and stack you already use. Step-by-step: 1. I gave the AI a persistent task and history store that it can read from and write to. This is the core of the workflow. Mine lives behind an MCP tool, but any queryable store can work. Every architectural decision, blocker, and progress note gets written there instead of being left in the chat. 2. I open every session with a stand-up. Before writing a single line of code, the AI pulls what was in progress, what's blocked, what changed since the last session, and which architectural decisions still hold. About 30 seconds later, we're both looking at the same project. Then we build. 3. I exposed real operations as MCP tools instead of relying on "write code" prompts. I wrapped specific, tested actions—such as creating a page, defining a data model, wiring an integration, and running a migration—as tools. The AI composes these known-good building blocks into larger solutions instead of regenerating infrastructure every session. I call this wave coding, and it's the biggest reason the output stays consistent. 4. I made verification a rule: before touching anything, the AI reads the live database, API state, logs, and files. It checks ground truth first instead of making assumptions. 5. I made the chat disposable and the log canonical. If it isn't logged, it didn't happen. The task store is the single source of truth, not the conversation. The payoff is that I can stop halfway through a feature, close my laptop, and come back days later. The AI reconstructs the project from its own history, so I don't spend 20 minutes re-explaining it. Full disclosure: I built this into my own platform, WebsitePublisher.ai, which currently has 43 MCP tools and 105 integration building blocks. It's delivered as an add-on that plugs into the AI client I already use over MCP, so there's no new app to learn. Nothing here is locked to that platform, though: the workflow itself works with any MCP client and any store the AI can query. I'm curious whether anyone else is running their AI this way or solving the amnesia problem from a different angle.

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