Back in January I got tired of the same thing everyone complains about now — you start a new session with Claude and it has no idea who you are. Every time. From scratch. So I built iai-mcp. A local daemon that captures every conversation, organizes it into three memory tiers, and feeds the right context back when you start a new session. No "remember this." No copy-pasting from old chats. It just knows.
I've been using it daily with Claude Code since January. Five months. At this point it knows my coding style, my project structures, my preferences — things I never explicitly told it to save. It picked them up from conversation and held onto them.
It stores everything verbatim, runs neural embeddings locally, encrypts at rest with AES-256, consolidates memory in the background while your machine is idle, and ships every benchmark harness so you can verify the numbers yourself. Verbatim recall above 99%. Retrieval under 100ms. Session-start cost under 3,000 tokens.
I didn't release it because I was building it for myself. It worked, so I kept using it. But watching the space blow up made me realize — maybe other people want this too.
So here it is. Open source. MIT licensed. Five months of daily use baked in.