v13.2.0

What's new

wowerpoint skill — kawaii NotebookLM slide-deck generator

Turn one source document into a kawaii NotebookLM slide-deck PDF. Wraps the notebooklm CLI with the kawaii-prompt + --format detailed defaults and a spawn-subagent pattern so generation (~10 min) never blocks the main conversation.

• Single-source-per-deck is enforced by the workflow shape: confirm or write the source doc before adding it to NotebookLM. Don't paper over a weak source by stacking more sources — write a comprehensive doc first.
• Slide-deck only. Videos and podcasts from the same engine are noticeably worse and out of scope; the skill refers users to the notebooklm CLI directly for those formats.
• Default prompt template: Use kawaii characters to tell the story of <subject>. Keep it warm and clear. Pass any user-supplied prompt through verbatim.
• Setup requires notebooklm-py (via uv tool install --with playwright), playwright install chromium, and jq.
• Spawn-and-end-turn pattern: the subagent's completion notification fires when the PDF is on disk; the main conversation never blocks on the ~10 min render.

See PR #2430 for the full design notes and review history.

Skills inventory

This release brings the plugin to 12 skills: babysit, do, how-it-works, knowledge-agent, learn-codebase, make-plan, mem-search, pathfinder, smart-explore, timeline-report, version-bump, wowerpoint.

v13.1.0

Server-beta event pipeline (phases 4–13)

This release lands the full server-beta track developed on server-beta-phase-4-event-pipeline — a self-contained Postgres + BullMQ event-to-observation pipeline with API-key auth, team/project scope, audit log, three AI providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google), a dedicated MCP server, legacy compat adapters for existing worker clients, a Docker/Compose stack, and a generation-job retry/cancel surface.

Highlights

• Event pipeline: agent_event → observation_generation_jobs (outbox) → BullMQ worker → observation row. Idempotent enqueue, request-id propagation end-to-end, structured audit log.
• API surface: POST /v1/events, POST /v1/sessions/start, POST /v1/sessions/:id/end, generation-job list/retry/cancel, MCP routes, scoped reads.
• Legacy compat: /api/sessions/observations and /api/sessions/summarize shims map legacy worker payloads into the new event/job model without touching worker code. Both shims now wrap session lookup in their try/catch so Postgres failures return structured JSON, and resolveServerSession survives TOCTOU races via 23505 catch-and-refetch.
• POST /v1/sessions/start also catches 23505 on concurrent start with the same externalSessionId and refetches the winning row instead of returning 500.
• Generation providers: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google with per-team-project scope enforcement and error classification.
• Docker / Compose stack and bin/server-beta-cli for local operator workflows.

Bug fixes

• resolveServerSession Postgres errors no longer escape asyncHandler.catch(next) and return HTML 500s to legacy clients.
• POST /v1/sessions/start no longer returns 500 to the loser of a concurrent same-externalSessionId race.

Full PR thread: #2383.

v13.0.1

Bug fixes

MCP server

• #2371 — drop ${_R%/} parameter-expansion trim in .mcp.json that tripped Claude Code's MCP validator

Environment isolation

• #2357 — block ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL leak; use a three-branch OAuth-skip predicate
• Add CLAUDE_MEM_ENV_FILE lazy resolver so tests (and multi-profile users) can redirect the env-file path without module-load-order constraints

Worker lifecycle

• Classify Claude SDK HTTP 400 as unrecoverable so the worker stops retrying a doomed request
• Stop hook crash hardened: onclose handler now performs background tree-kill on unexpected subprocess exit

Chroma

• #2313 — enforce a single chroma-mcp subprocess per worker (singleton via disposeCurrentSubprocess() on every code path; tree-kill of orphans on dispose)
• Pin onnxruntime>=1.20 and protobuf<7 to fix INVALID_PROTOBUF on macOS arm64

Build

• Polyfill import.meta.url to pathToFileURL(__filename) in the CJS worker bundle so ESM-style code resolves correctly (CodeRabbit-driven follow-up)

Tests / review

• tests/env-isolation.test.ts no longer mutates the real ~/.claude-mem/.env; OAuth spy wrapped in try/finally to avoid leaks across runs
• 3 new chroma-mcp regression tests for #2313 (singleton enforcement)

Misc

• Daily dependency bump per CLAUDE.md maintenance policy

Full diff: #2394

v13.0.0 — Server Beta + Apache 2.0

Highlights

This is the claude-mem 13 major release, landing the Server Beta runtime and the project's relicense.

Server Beta runtime (opt-in)

• Independent server-beta service with its own lifecycle (claude-mem server start/status/stop)
• Postgres-backed observation storage
• BullMQ + Redis observation queue engine (gated behind CLAUDE_MEM_QUEUE_ENGINE=bullmq, fail-fast)
• New /v1 REST API surface (events, sessions, memories, search, context, audit, jobs)
• API-key auth + Better-Auth proxy
• Outbox pattern for transactional event-to-job pipelines
• Generation-job primitives (ServerJobQueue, ActiveServerBetaQueueManager, deterministic colon-free SHA-256 job IDs)
• Docker Compose + E2E harness for the new stack

Licensing

• Repository relicensed from AGPL-3.0 to Apache-2.0
• NOTICE file added
• docs/license.md and docs/ip-boundary.md clarify the OSS / commercial boundary
• ragtime/ subproject also relicensed to Apache-2.0

Installer

• Server Beta is exposed as an installer option (default off — open-source core is unaffected)

Migration notes

• Existing users on the worker-era plugin keep working — no breaking changes for the default install
• Server Beta is opt-in. Worker continues to run on its existing port and SQLite store.
• See docs/migration-worker-to-server.md for forward-looking migration guidance

Compatibility

• Node ≥ 20, Bun ≥ 1.0
• Server Beta requires Postgres + Redis (only when enabled)

Full diff: v12.7.5...v13.0.0

v12.7.5

Patch release for npx installs that hit an existing Codex marketplace registration.

Fixes:

• If Codex already has claude-mem-local registered from a different source, the installer now removes that stale registration and re-adds the local npx marketplace instead of failing.
• Keeps Codex plugin_hooks enablement and legacy AGENTS cleanup after the marketplace registration succeeds.
• Updates the release workflow instructions to use npm run build-and-sync instead of plain npm run build so the local marketplace and worker are synced during releases.

Validation:

• npm run build-and-sync
• bun test tests/install-non-tty.test.ts tests/infrastructure/plugin-distribution.test.ts tests/servers/mcp-tool-schemas.test.ts tests/setup-runtime.test.ts tests/hook-command.test.ts
• Docker smoke with codex-cli 0.128.0 reproducing the remote-to-local marketplace source conflict and verifying install completion.
• npx --yes claude-mem@12.7.5 --version

v12.7.4

Patch release for the Codex mem-search marketplace fix.

Highlights:

• Restores Codex access to the claude-mem MCP/search plugin by pointing the Codex marketplace at the bundled plugin root.
• Adds resilient MCP launcher fallbacks for local installs, Codex plugin cache installs, Claude plugin cache installs, and remote marketplace clones.
• Registers Codex plugin marketplaces during install, enables plugin_hooks, and cleans up legacy AGENTS-based Codex context injection.
• Includes the Codex session-start hook migration and Codex version-mismatch investigation plan.

Validation:

• npm run build
• bun test tests/install-non-tty.test.ts tests/infrastructure/plugin-distribution.test.ts tests/servers/mcp-tool-schemas.test.ts tests/setup-runtime.test.ts tests/hook-command.test.ts
• Docker smoke with codex-cli 0.128.0 for local install, remote marketplace add/upgrade, and MCP initialize.

v12.7.3

Patch release for the reliability fixes merged in PR #2344.

• Stops context-overflow and quota hard-stop failures from restarting observer generators and burning subscription quota.
• Makes Stop hook transcript lookup failures non-blocking, so missing worktree transcript paths do not re-wake Claude Code in a loop.
• Hardens MCP/plugin startup path resolution when host plugin-root environment variables are absent.
• Accepts legacy install markers while keeping new marker writes on the JSON format.
• Fixes export-memories to honor isolated data dirs, validate worker ports, and send the worker route's canonical session-id field.
• Makes pending_messages repair safer and removes stale worker_pid assumptions from the current queue/schema path.
• Adds a focused PR babysit status helper for low-noise review/check monitoring.

v12.7.2

v12.7.2

Fixed

• Disable Claude Code built-in auto-memory during claude-code installs by setting CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_AUTO_MEMORY=1 in Claude settings.
• Make JSON config writes crash-safe, durable, symlink-safe, and safe for dangling symlink destinations.
• Add regression coverage for atomic JSON writes through symlinked and dangling-symlink settings paths.

v12.7.1

Added

• Package the new babysit skill for monitoring PR checks, review comments, and unresolved review threads until a PR is merge-ready.

Verification

• npm run build
• npm publish completed for claude-mem@12.7.1

v12.7.0

Added

• Add native Codex hooks integration through the Codex plugin marketplace.
• Add Codex hook payload normalization, file-context extraction, and Stop hook observation support.
• Add Codex installer support for npx claude-mem@latest install with Codex CLI version guidance.

Fixed

• Avoid slow observation flow retries by replacing the worker-side initialization wait with hook-side readiness polling.
• Keep Codex file-context extraction from consuming boolean flags like cat -n.
• Include bun-runner.js in hook distribution verification.