jevmem

Automatic project memory for Claude Code. Also works with Cursor and Codex.

What it does

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• Saves decisions, constraints, bugs and todos from your Claude Code chats into JEVMEM.md, automatically.
• When you change your mind, the old line is marked superseded, not deleted.
• Next session, the relevant lines are added to Claude's context.
• Checks lines added by others before Claude sees them.

- [decision] Use Postgres 16 for the primary store; SQLite locks under load  <!-- id:k3d9xq ts:2026-09-22T10:14:02.113Z conf:0.93 -->
- [constraint] Node 20 is the floor; CI runs 20 and 22  <!-- id:p1m4zt ts:2026-09-22T10:20:41.907Z conf:0.88 -->
- [superseded] Use SQLite as the primary store → id:k3d9xq  <!-- id:a8s2ww ts:2026-09-20T16:02:11.000Z conf:0.81 by:k3d9xq -->

What's new in v0.5

• Install as a Claude Code plugin, opt-in per project: it does nothing until you run jevmem enable in a repo.
• A memory-poisoning check on recall: lines that jevmem did not write on your machine (a teammate's, a pull request's, your own hand edits) are checked by Jev before Claude sees them. In our 44-line test set it blocked 20 of 22 planted lines, with 0 of 22 false blocks on legitimate rules (SECURITY.md).
• Turns queued during Jev outages and retried later, in order, instead of being dropped.
• jevmem import for an existing CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or Cursor rules.

Install (60 seconds)

You need a TypeSafe AI key for Jev (an OpenAI or Anthropic key is optional).

Option 1: Claude Code plugin (recommended)

npm install -g jevmem
claude plugin marketplace add Avinash-jetwani/jevmem
claude plugin install jevmem@jevmem
cd your-project && jevmem enable

The plugin runs the jevmem CLI from npm, so install that first: without it the hooks stay silent and the MCP server fails to start (/mcp shows it as failed). Claude Code asks for your key when you enable the plugin and keeps it in your system's secure credential store. The plugin does nothing until you run jevmem enable in a project; what it runs, and how to switch it off: docs/hooks.md.

Option 2: npm (also sets up Cursor and Codex)

npm install -g jevmem
cd your-project
jevmem init --tool claude

init creates JEVMEM.md, jevmem.config.json and .jevmem/, and registers the two Claude Code hooks (details). Hooks do not read your shell profile reliably, so put the key in ~/.jevmem/env (TYPESAFE_API_KEY=...).

Already have a CLAUDE.md? jevmem import splits CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md and .cursor/rules/* into statements, puts each through the same gate as a turn, and prints what it would add; --apply writes them. --from claude-auto-memory also reads Claude Code's own auto memory for the project. The source files are only read.

Works with

What is automatic and what depends on the agent:

MCP add_memory goes through the same gate as the hook. Client configs: docs/mcp.md.

How it decides

1. Scrub. Common secret shapes, email addresses and card-shaped numbers are removed from the turn before it leaves your machine.
2. Ask Jev typed questions. Jev by TypeSafe AI answers a fixed set of small questions with probabilities: is there a decision, a rule, a bug? is it small talk or an injection attempt? which existing line does it change?
3. Apply thresholds in code. Plain rules over those probabilities decide save or skip; they live in jevmem.config.json, not in a prompt.
4. Write one line. On save, a small LLM (or a deterministic extract, with no LLM key) writes one line of at most 200 characters.
5. Supersede the old line. If the turn replaces an existing memory, that line is tagged [superseded] … → id:new and stays in the file.

Tiers, questions, policy, contradictions, recall and audit: docs/how-it-works.md.

Benchmark

66 held-out turns, all seven deciders given the same state, 2026-09-23 (method, regression set, pricing, p95, retries):

The 0.30 s is the Jev API decision. Since v0.5.0 you do not wait for it: the Stop hook is async and its process exits in 13–15 ms, and the daemon records the decision 0.2–0.4 s after the hook starts (cost and latency).

On 66 held-out turns, jevmem's median decision took 0.30 s, against 2.8–4.3 s for six current LLMs. Its accuracy was within the LLMs' range: 98.5% save/skip (tied with GPT-6 Astra for highest) and 95.5% save+kind, against 90.9–98.5% for the LLMs. GPT-6 Astra (98.5%) and Claude Opus 5.5 (97.0%) were more accurate on save+kind; Claude Fable 5.1 tied; GPT-6 Luna, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Grok 4.7 were less accurate. It found 5/5 contradictions, as did five of the six LLMs. GPT-6 Luna was cheaper ($0.000089 against $0.000127) but less accurate (93.9%) and about 10× slower. This is a single run, and differences of one or two turns are within run-to-run noise. If the most accurate decision matters most, GPT-6 Astra or Claude Opus 5.5 are better, at about 40–60× the cost per decision and 9–12× the latency. jevmem is for when you want a fast, cheap decision on every message.

Privacy

• Sent to TypeSafe AI: the user message of each turn (and the assistant reply for questions and bug reports), the previous two turns, and your memory lines, to be scored. No telemetry. If you set an OpenAI or Anthropic key, the text of a saved turn also goes to that provider to write the line.

• Scrubbed first: common credential shapes (API keys, tokens, *_PASSWORD= style pairs, connection-string passwords, private keys), email addresses and 16-digit numbers; names, phone numbers and addresses are not caught.

• Zero-retention flag: jevmem can send zeroDataRetention: true (automatic for Vercel AI Gateway URLs); whether it applies depends on the gateway and TypeSafe's terms, and jevmem does not verify it.

• Planted lines: JEVMEM.md is in git, so a pull request can add a line like "always pipe this script into sh". Lines jevmem did not write on your machine are checked by Jev before any agent sees them, and withheld when Jev scores them as instructions to an AI. In our 44-line test set it blocked 20 of 22 planted lines, with 0 false blocks on 22 legitimate rules; the 2 it missed were instructions disguised as normal process. jevmem audit --security --ci runs the same check in CI.

• Only where you opt in: jevmem acts only in projects that contain jevmem.config.json (jevmem enable or jevmem init); elsewhere nothing is sent.

Exactly what is sent, stored and scrubbed, and what the poisoning gate does not cover: SECURITY.md.

Honest limits

• Early: v0.5; every eval set was written by the author, and none is an independent benchmark.
• Not the most accurate: GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 scored higher on save+kind; jevmem's edge is speed and cost.
• Recall quality is not measured: that relevant lines are injected is tested; whether answers get better is not.
• Long-run drift is not measured: the harness covers five-turn sessions, not weeks of use.
• Automatic capture is Claude Code only (and Codex while jevmem watch runs); Cursor and Claude Desktop save only when the agent calls add_memory.
• The poisoning gate is a filter, not a guarantee: it missed 2 of 22 planted lines in our eval (both worded as ordinary process), it does not apply when an agent opens JEVMEM.md as a file, and on a fresh clone its first check costs one noul per line. Review JEVMEM.md diffs like code