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memU is a lightweight, agent-driven memory system that gives users a shared LLM wiki across sessions, agents, and devices. It automatically distills your own reusable skills from your agent history. Its core memory logic is only 500 lines — compact enough to inspect, understand, and adapt.

Quick start

memU works with Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes, WorkBuddy, Cola, and more. See Host adapters.

Cross-device · Free · Unlimited · View online

Get your API key from memu.so, then send this message to your agent:

Read https://memu.pro/SKILL.md, follow its instructions to install and configure memU, API Key is memu_•••••••••(get Api Key from memu.so).

Agent support

This matrix lists the currently tested memU integrations by operating system.

• Memorize — capture useful session knowledge through a scheduled background task and turn it into reusable memory.
• Retrieve — bring relevant memory into a future task.
• ⚠️ — supported with an important limitation; see the user note.

macOS

Agent	Mode	Memorize	Retrieve	User note
ChatGPT	ChatGPT(Work mode), codex and VS Code extension	✅	✅
ChatGPT	Chat	❌	❌	Chat mode is not currently supported. Please use Work mode.
Claude Code	Desktop and CLI	✅	✅	If the selected model declines the setup steps, retry with Opus or another model. Sonnet 5 can occasionally do this.
Claude	Chat and Cowork	❌	❌
Cursor	—	✅	✅
OpenClaw	—	✅	✅	Retrieve support has not yet been verified.
Hermes Agent	—	✅	✅
WorkBuddy	—	✅	✅

Windows

Agent	Mode	Memorize	Retrieve	User note
ChatGPT	ChatGPT(Work mode), codex and VS Code extension	✅	✅
ChatGPT	Chat	❌	❌	Chat mode is not currently supported. Please use Work mode.
Claude Code	Desktop and CLI	✅	✅	If the selected model declines the setup steps, retry with Opus or another model. Sonnet 5 can occasionally do this.
Claude	Chat and Cowork	❌	❌
Cursor	—	✅	✅
OpenClaw	—	✅	✅
Hermes Agent	—	✅	⚠️	Use a memU version with Windows HERMES_HOME support; older versions may retrieve from the wrong files.
WorkBuddy	—	✅	✅	With Hy3, retrieval may fail. Retry with another model if this happens.

Linux

Agent	Mode	Memorize	Retrieve	User note
Codex	VS Code extension	❌	✅
Claude Code	CLI	✅	✅
OpenClaw	4.23 / 7.1	✅	✅

Support status reflects the current release and may change as host integrations evolve.

How it works

Automatic skill extraction

Once the scheduled bridging task is installed, memU can turn useful agent history into reusable Markdown skills automatically.

1. Capture new sessions. The host adapter reads new session history, including messages and tool calls.
2. Prepare self-evolve jobs. prepare slices each session into a self-contained job with the paths and context the agent needs.
3. Let the agent decide. The agent reads related existing skills, then chooses to do nothing, patch an existing skill, or create a new one.
4. Write readable skill Markdown. Each skill has a name, description, and reusable workflow, including useful branches, edge cases, and pitfalls.
5. Commit and index. commit submits changed skill files through commit_results; memU embeds the skill name and description and stores it under the skill track.
6. Retrieve it later. On a similar future task, memU returns the relevant skill so any connected agent can use the learned workflow.

The judgment and synthesis stay inside the agent. MemoryService makes no LLM or chat calls; it stores, embeds, and retrieves the skill Markdown the agent prepared.

Self-hosted

Private · Single-device · Embedding key required

To run memU locally with your own storage and embedding provider, send this message to your agent:

Read https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NevaMind-AI/MemU/main/SKILL.md and follow it to install memU.

Uninstall

To uninstall memU, send this message to your agent:

Read https://memu.pro/SKILL.md and follow its instructions to uninstall memU.

By default, uninstalling removes the host integration and tooling while keeping your memory store and ~/.memu/config.env, so a later reinstall can resume where you left off. Memory is erased only when you explicitly ask for it.

Host adapters: memory for desktop coding agents

memU runs as a sidecar to a desktop agent, one binary per host. Each binds two seams:

• record — a scheduled bridging task slices new session logs into self-contained job files; the agent itself distills them into memory/skill Markdown; commit submits whatever the agent left on disk back through commit_results.
• inject — a standing instruction in the host's instruction file tells the agent to run <binary> retrieve (→ progressive_retrieve) before answering.

Host	Binary	Session log it mines	Instruction file it patches
Codex	memu-codex	~/.codex/sessions/**/*.jsonl	~/.codex/AGENTS.md
Claude Code	memu-claude-code	~/.claude/projects/<project>/<session>.jsonl	~/.claude/CLAUDE.md
Cursor (Agent/CLI)	memu-cursor	~/.cursor/projects/<project>/agent-transcripts/**.jsonl	./AGENTS.md (per project)
OpenClaw	memu-openclaw	~/.openclaw/agents/<agentId>/agent/openclaw-agent.sqlite (SQLite, read-only) + legacy <agentId>/sessions/*.jsonl	~/.openclaw/workspace/AGENTS.md
Hermes Agent	memu-hermes	~/.hermes/state.db (SQLite, read-only)	~/.hermes/SOUL.md
WorkBuddy	memu-workbuddy	~/.workbuddy/projects/<project>/<session>.jsonl	~/.workbuddy/SOUL.md
Cola	memu-cola	~/.cola/sessions/<scope>/<session>.jsonl	~/.cola/memory-bank/MEMORY.md
any other agent	memu-agent	found by memu-agent detect (JSONL dialect sniffed)	found by detect (AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md / SOUL.md / …)

For agents without a dedicated binary, memu-agent detect probes the machine and reports per agent whether memorization works (a recognizable session log exists) and whether retrieval works (an instruction file exists to patch) — then the same verbs run against what it found.

All hosts share one configured memory backend via ~/.memu/config.env — local or MemU Cloud. What one host's sessions taught memU, another host retrieves.

Installation is the one-message setup in Quick start or Self-hosted. SKILL.md is the routing skill it hands your agent: install the package, identify which host you are (falling back to memu-agent detect for anything without a dedicated adapter), print that host's packaged install guide (<binary> docs install), and follow it — configure the memory backend, register the scheduled bridging task, patch the instruction file, each step behind a verify gate — then report which seams (memorization / retrieval) are now active.

Afterwards <binary> doctor proves the whole loop resolves: config, selected mode, and a live retrieval.

Adding another host means implementing one TranscriptSource (where its session logs live, how its records are shaped) plus a HostSpec-sized CLI — the pipeline, verbs, and instruction text are shared.

CLI

With memU Cloud, sign in at memu.so to view your memory files. With a local installation, memory lives in the shared store configured by MEMU_DB in ~/.memu/config.env — typically ~/.memu/memu.sqlite3 for local SQLite, or a Postgres DSN.

Once installed, your agent retrieves relevant memory automatically before answering. To retrieve manually, run the adapter for your host:

memu-codex retrieve "What should I remember about this project?"
# or: memu-claude-code / memu-cursor / memu-openclaw / memu-hermes / memu-workbuddy / memu-agent

Install or invoke the CLI directly:

pip install memu-cli         # library + memu + memu-codex CLIs
npx memu-cli --help          # CLI via npm launcher (engine: PyPI package memu-cli)
uvx --from memu-cli memu     # CLI via uv, no install

Configuration

Values resolve in order: process env → ~/.memu/config.env → default. memU supports Local and Cloud memory backends, selected by MEMU_MEMORY_MODE; an unset mode remains Local for backward compatibility.

For Local / self-hosted installations, every CLI flag has a matching variable:

Setting	Env var	Default
Store	MEMU_DB	./data/memu.sqlite3 (CLI); required for host adapters
Embedding provider	MEMU_EMBED_PROVIDER	openai (also: jina, voyage, doubao, openrouter); legacy MEMU_LLM_PROVIDER still read
API key	MEMU_API_KEY	the provider's env var, e.g. OPENAI_API_KEY
Embedding model	MEMU_EMBED_MODEL	the provider's default
Base URL	MEMU_BASE_URL	the provider's default

Run <binary> doctor to display the resolved mode and verify the same retrieval path the host uses.

Storage backends

Provider	DSN	Vector search	Use for
inmemory	—	brute-force cosine	tests, throwaway sessions
sqlite	sqlite:///path.sqlite3	brute-force cosine	local/default, single writer
postgres	postgresql://...	pgvector	concurrent access, large stores (pip install "memu-cli[postgres]")

service = MemoryService(
    database_config={"metadata_store": {"provider": "postgres", "dsn": "postgresql://..."}},
    embedding_profiles={"default": {"provider": "jina"}},
)

License

Apache-2.0

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