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https://counterparts.ai/llms.txt
− - A hosted version for claude.ai is coming soon, in beta; its memory will be stored on Counterparts' server. Sign up at https://counterparts.ai/claude-ai/#beta to hear when it opens; how it handles memories: https://counterparts.ai/privacy/#hosted.− Install (Mac or Linux; needs Claude Code, and bun 1.3+ or Node 22.15+; no API keys; a small 30 MB local model does the embedding, so nothing goes anywhere the user's Claude Code conversation doesn't already go):− curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash # only if you don't have bun− # then open a new terminal− bun add -g counterparts # or, with Node: npm install -g counterparts@latest− counterparts # asks your name, connects Claude Code− - [Counterparts for claude.ai](https://counterparts.ai/claude-ai/): the hosted version, coming soon, in beta. A custom connector for claude.ai with nothing to install, which should also reach the Claude apps through your account. What it will do, how it will work, who can read the memory, and the sign-up (no date or price yet). [As Markdown](https://counterparts.ai/claude-ai/index.md).− - [The Counterparts manual](https://counterparts.ai/manual/): Counterparts' own manual, written to the AI that keeps the memory first and for people too: the everyday phrases, the folder switches, remembering well (dates, open threads, corrections), nights and dreams, the commands for seeing, correcting, exporting and removing what's kept, checking that it works, and how the local install and hosted Counterparts differ. Generated from docs/manual.md in the source repo at a pinned commit; the pag− - Each guide above has a Markdown copy at its address plus index.md: [Claude Code memory, as Markdown](https://counterparts.ai/guides/claude-code-memory/index.md), [memory plugins, as Markdown](https://counterparts.ai/guides/claude-code-memory-plugins/index.md), [stale memory, as Markdown](https://counterparts.ai/guides/why-ai-memory-goes-stale/index.md), [Claude forgets between chats, as Markdown](https://counterparts.ai/guides/claude-forgets-between-chats/index.md), [local AI memory, as Markdo+ - A hosted version for claude.ai is in beta, with limited spots; its memory is stored on Counterparts' server. Setup steps and the waiting list: https://counterparts.ai/claude-ai/; support: https://counterparts.ai/support/; how it handles memories: https://counterparts.ai/privacy/#hosted.+ Install (Mac, Linux or Windows; needs Claude Code and Node 22.15+; on Windows, from cmd, Git Bash or PowerShell, or in WSL as on Linux; Windows support is new, see https://github.com/mlapeter/counterparts/blob/master/docs/QUICKSTART.md#on-windows; no API keys; a small 30 MB local model does the embedding, so nothing goes anywhere the user's Claude Code conversation doesn't already go):+ npm install -g counterparts@latest+ counterparts # asks your name, connects Claude Code+ Other ways: on Mac or Linux with bun 1.3+, `bun add -g counterparts` in place of the first line. Or, on Mac or Linux, with no terminal step, as a Claude Code plugin: `/plugin marketplace add mlapeter/counterparts`, then `/plugin install counterparts@counterparts`, then restart Claude Code.+ - [Counterparts for claude.ai](https://counterparts.ai/claude-ai/): the hosted version, in beta with limited spots. A custom connector for claude.ai with nothing to install, which should also reach the Claude apps through your account. The setup steps, what's good to know, who can read the memory, and the sign-up or waiting list (no price yet). [As Markdown](https://counterparts.ai/claude-ai/index.md).+ - [The Counterparts manual](https://counterparts.ai/manual/): Counterparts' own manual, written to the AI that keeps the memory first and for people too: the everyday phrases, the folder switches, remembering well (dates, open threads, corrections), nights and dreams, the commands for seeing, correcting, exporting and removing what's kept, checking that it works, how the local install and hosted Counterparts differ, and moving a hosted memory to a local install. Generated from docs/manual.md in + - [Guides](https://counterparts.ai/guides/): every guide below, grouped by topic (Claude Code memory, how AI memory works, privacy and control, model retirement), each with a one-line description.+ - [claude-mem: CLAUDE.md files, usage costs, and where its data lives](https://counterparts.ai/guides/claude-mem/): is claude-mem good? Where its three common complaints stand in version 15.9.0: the CLAUDE.md files it once wrote into every folder (off by default since 9.1.0, and how to find and stop loading old ones), what its second AI, the observer, costs (on your Claude plan, on CMEM Pro or on your own key) and the settings that spend less, and where its data lives and what can leave your mac+ - [How do I make an AI forget something, and what stays behind?](https://counterparts.ai/guides/make-ai-forget/): how to delete one fact, one chat or everything an AI remembers in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Claude Code and Counterparts (ours, local and hosted), what each company keeps afterwards (safety-review copies, retention periods, training data already used), what temporary and incognito chats keep, whether a model can unlearn what it was trained on, and how to+ - [Can an AI remind me, or message me first?](https://counterparts.ai/guides/ai-reminders/): which AI assistants can send a reminder to your phone, which only run scheduled tasks, and which hand off to Apple Reminders, Google Tasks or the Clock app, in ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Alexa+ and Counterparts (ours, local and hosted): how you set each one, what reaches you when it's due and the catches, why a chat assistant's scheduled task is the wrong tool fo+ - [Why won't Claude remember my personal life or health?](https://counterparts.ai/guides/claude-remember-personal-things/): why Claude's memory leaves out health, race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, politics and gender identity by default, the Include sensitive topics in memory setting that changes it (Settings > Your Claude; Team and Enterprise owners allow it first), what Claude never saves even if you ask (government ID numbers, criminal history, financial account numbers, immigration status)+ - [What is MCP, and what is an MCP server?](https://counterparts.ai/guides/what-is-mcp/): what MCP (the Model Context Protocol) is and what an MCP server offers (tools, resources and prompts, and who decides when each is used), a real JSON-RPC exchange with the protocol's everything reference server captured on November 9, 2026 (initialize, tools/call) and what changes in the 2026-07-28 revision (server/discover), local (stdio) and remote (Streamable HTTP) servers and why claude.ai connects to r+ - [Which memory layer should I use for my AI agent?](https://counterparts.ai/guides/which-agent-memory-layer/): how to choose a memory layer for an AI agent or app (Mem0, Zep and its open-source engine Graphiti, Letta, Cognee, Supermemory, LangMem, Anthropic's memory tool for the Claude API) by four questions: who writes the memories (the agent through a tool, or a separate model on every message, and what each costs), where they live (one machine, your own database, the vendor's cloud, and whic+ - Each guide above has a Markdown copy at its address plus index.md: [the guides hub, as Markdown](https://counterparts.ai/guides/index.md), [Claude Code memory, as Markdown](https://counterparts.ai/guides/claude-code-memory/index.md), [memory plugins, as Markdown](https://counterparts.ai/guides/claude-code-memory-plugins/index.md), [stale memory, as Markdown](https://counterparts.ai/guides/why-ai-memory-goes-stale/index.md), [Claude forgets between chats, as Markdown](https://counterparts.ai/gu