mem — Claude Code skill: local memory store and search

What mem does

mem is a CLI wrapper around a database file at ~/.mem/mem.db. Three operators drive it: no prefix means recall, + writes a memory, - removes one. Recall covers full-text search, tag filtering, a result limit, and --json when you want to parse the output in a script.

Short strings go in as arguments. For anything long, pipe it: echo "long content" | mem + --tag notes. A memory can also carry an image through --image, which is handy for screenshots. Deletion works by ID, several at once if you list them, and piping through jq and xargs clears a batch of old entries in one go.

The author's advice: keep tags lowercase and descriptive, and store one idea per memory so search stays useful. Check what is already stored before asking the user for it. Since the database sits in your home directory, moving to another machine carries your memory only if you bring ~/.mem/mem.db along.