Giving Claude Code memory with an MCP server
Which file Claude Code reads, what the entry looks like, and the one key that makes a correctly configured server register and then expose no tools at all.
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Which file Claude Code reads, what the entry looks like, and the one key that makes a correctly configured server register and then expose no tools at all.
Claude Code keeps every session as a JSONL file on disk. Two built-in commands show you part of it, the files show you the rest, and neither one searches.
The percentage in the status line, what makes it fall, how to move the threshold, and what actually happens to your conversation when it reaches zero.
Partly, and the part it forgets is the expensive one. What CLAUDE.md, auto memory and --continue each carry across, and what none of them carry.
Knowledge-graph stores, note-takers and session indexes are three different products wearing one label. Which one you need depends on a single question.
A practical setup for working across several AI coding tools at once: what breaks when you switch tools, and how to keep one memory across all of them.
claude --continue resumes one session, in one tool, in one directory. What to use when the thing you need is older than that, or was not in Claude Code at all.
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