Solves Claude's session amnesia by storing persistent memories locally as JSON files in your home directory. Exposes 8 free tools for learning facts from conversations, recalling context ranked by relevance, and saving checkpoints you can resume from later. Pro tier adds 12 more including project indexing, token monitoring, and a change scope guard that confirms edits to protected files. Installs via npx and auto-configures both Claude Desktop and Claude Code. All data stays local, no cloud sync. Useful when you're working on long-running projects where Claude needs to remember architectural decisions, gotchas, and context across multiple sessions without burning tokens on repeated explanations.
claude mcp add --transport stdio mikerichardmail-clarik-mcp-server -- npx -y clarik