ember-memory

Experiential memory for AI conversations -- an MCP server that preserves emotional continuity and relationship context across sessions.

Every AI conversation starts cold. Existing memory tools save facts, summaries, and preferences, but they lose something essential: what the conversation actually *felt* like. The warmth of a breakthrough moment, the tension before a difficult admission, the quiet trust built over days of working together. These textures vanish the moment a session ends.

Ember is an MCP server that solves this. It captures experiential memory in real time through lightweight emotional annotations, preserving the feeling of conversations so that the next session can inherit not just what was discussed, but how it felt. When a new AI instance calls ember_read_inheritance, it receives the significant emotional moments from past conversations -- shifts in tone, unspoken context, moments of genuine connection -- giving it the foundation to continue the human-AI relationship rather than restart it.

This is relationship memory, not retrieval memory. Ember does not store documents or search results. It stores the emotional arc of a conversation: where curiosity sparked, where frustration surfaced, where something real was exchanged. It exists so that AI conversation continuity means more than remembering facts -- it means remembering what your conversations felt like and preserving the feeling of conversations across sessions.

Just tell Claude:

> "Install ember-memory and set it up"

That's it. Claude will handle the rest. You just need to restart Claude Code when it tells you to.

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<details> <summary><strong>Manual install (if you prefer)</strong></summary>

Interactive setup:

npx ember-memory --setup

Or via Claude Code CLI:

# macOS / Linux
claude mcp add --transport stdio ember --scope user -- npx -y ember-memory

# Windows
claude mcp add --transport stdio ember --scope user -