Memory Without the Terminal

You don't need the terminal, the extension, or the desktop app to use ImmorTerm Memory. The memory service is a single native binary that runs on its own and speaks MCP over HTTP — any AI coding tool that can register an MCP server can read and write it.

What it replaces: the hand-maintained "second brain" — the vault of session notes you name, organize, backlink, and prune weekly so your AI can grep it. Here the capture is automatic, retrieval is ranked, and outdated decisions supersede themselves. Zero maintenance is the feature.

Setup

npm install -g immorterm
immorterm memory install
immorterm memory up

Platform support is the same as the rest of ImmorTerm: macOS arm64, Linux with glibc 2.38+, no Windows yet — see Getting Started.

Then point your AI tool at the MCP endpoint:

POST http://127.0.0.1:8765/mcp/{client_name}/{user_id}

client_name is the tool connecting (claude-code, cursor, …); user_id is the memory partition. Registration shapes and reconnect behavior are on Connecting over MCP. Claude Code gets the deepest integration — hooks that capture automatically — covered in the Claude Code guide.

What you get

• Semantic search in ~8ms — hybrid retrieval (dense + sparse) with a cross-encoder reranker, running locally. Search
• Auto-supersession — when a decision changes, the old memory is archived and chained to the new one. Repos change their minds; the memory keeps both versions, no scars. Memories
• Branch-aware scoring — memories from other branches are penalized until merged, so the AI stops suggesting patterns from abandoned branches.
• Code-bound history — edits, git commits, file checkpoints, and terminal logs linked to the sessions that produced them. Code history
• Knowledge packs — digest books and docs into searchable packs. Packs
• 41 MCP tools over all of it. MCP Tools

Everything is local: SQLite on your disk, models on your disk, the service bound to 127.0.0.1. No API key, no cloud round-trip, no code leaving the machine. The REST surface is fully documented in the Memory API reference if you'd rather script it directly.

Free vs Memory Pro

Every memory is captured and stored forever, on every tier. The caps are on the read path only:

When a query hits a cap, the response says how many results were gated rather than pretending they don't exist — the exact shape is on the Memory API overview.

free keeps everything forever — it just reads you the last three days, five results at a time. pro reads the whole tank. — mort

Upgrade with immorterm pro (checkout in the browser, license key by email — no account). Memory Pro covers the memory service alone; the full ImmorTerm Pro tier ($29/mo) adds the terminal-side limits on top. License mechanics live on the Billing API page.