# Claude Continuity

> Archived: Early MCP memory experiment for Claude Desktop (2026). Superseded by Mem0 and others.

- **Type:** MCP server
- **Install:** `agentstack add mcp-johnmwhitman-claude-continuity`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [johnmwhitman](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/johnmwhitman)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Integrations](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/integrations)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [johnmwhitman](https://github.com/johnmwhitman)
- **Source:** https://github.com/johnmwhitman/claude-continuity

## Install

```sh
agentstack add mcp-johnmwhitman-claude-continuity
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Continuity

**Persistent memory and context for Claude Desktop. Every conversation picks up where the last one left off.**

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Most AI assistants forget you the moment the session ends.

You paste the same context document every time. You re-explain your project. You remind Claude who your team is, what you're building, what you decided last week. Every conversation starts from zero.

Continuity fixes that.

It gives Claude Desktop a persistent memory layer — backed by [ChromaDB](https://www.trychroma.com/) running locally on your machine — so that what you share in one conversation is available in the next. Not uploaded to a server. Not summarized by someone else's model. Yours, on your hardware, under your control.

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## What it does

- **Remembers across sessions** — decisions, projects, people, tasks, and context persist between conversations
- **Searches semantically** — Claude can recall relevant memories using natural language, not exact keyword matching
- **Runs locally** — ChromaDB lives on your machine. Nothing leaves unless you choose to share it.
- **Works autonomously** — a nightly pipeline updates, prunes, and organizes memory without you thinking about it
- **MCP-native** — built on the [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/), the same standard Claude Desktop uses natively

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## What it's not

- Not a plugin you install from a marketplace
- Not a cloud service or SaaS product
- Not a wrapper around someone else's memory API
- Not finished — this is v0.1, built by one person, and it works

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## How it works

```
Your conversation
      ↓
Claude Desktop (with MCP)
      ↓
Continuity MCP server (memory_save / memory_search / memory_list)
      ↓
ChromaDB (local vector store, 6 collections)
      ↓
Next conversation — context already loaded
```

Six memory collections: `projects`, `people`, `decisions`, `knowledge`, `conversations`, `tasks`

Each entry is stored as a vector embedding, so Claude can find related memories even when the wording doesn't match exactly.

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## Requirements

- Windows 10/11 (primary platform; Mac/Linux adaptable)
- [Claude Desktop](https://claude.ai/download) with an active Anthropic subscription
- Python 3.10+
- ~500MB disk space for ChromaDB

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## Quick start

```bash
# 1. Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/johnmwhitman/claude-continuity.git
cd claude-continuity

# 2. Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# 3. Run the onboarding wizard
python automation/onboarding_wizard.py

# 4. Add the system prompt to Claude Desktop
# Settings → Profile → paste contents of docs/SYSTEM_PROMPT_TEMPLATE.md

# 5. Restart Claude Desktop
```

Full install guide: [docs/INSTALL.md](docs/INSTALL.md)

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## Project structure

```
claude-continuity/
├── automation/          # Core scripts — memory server, pipeline, utilities
├── docs/                # Install guide, architecture, system prompt template
├── web/                 # Dashboard and local web tools
├── .gitignore
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── LICENSE              # MIT
├── README.md
└── requirements.txt
```

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## Privacy

Your memories never leave your machine unless you explicitly push them somewhere. No telemetry. No analytics. No phone-home. The ChromaDB database lives at a local path you control.

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## Contributing

This project is early and welcomes help — especially on Mac/Linux compatibility, documentation, and testing. Read [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) before submitting a PR.

The one non-negotiable: **no telemetry, no cloud dependencies, no data leaving the user's machine without explicit opt-in.**

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## Status

**v0.1 — working, opinionated, Windows-first.**

The nightly pipeline runs. The memory server works. The onboarding wizard walks you through setup. It's not polished. It does what it says.

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## License

MIT © 2026 John Whitman

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*Built on the Elk River in southwest Missouri. Started because pasting the same context document into every Claude session got old.*

## Source & license

This open-source MCP server is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [johnmwhitman](https://github.com/johnmwhitman)
- **Source:** [johnmwhitman/claude-continuity](https://github.com/johnmwhitman/claude-continuity)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/mcp-johnmwhitman-claude-continuity
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/johnmwhitman
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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