# hmem — Humanlike Memory for AI Agents MCP Server

Persistent 5-level hierarchical memory for AI agents. SQLite-backed, lazy-loaded.

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## Connect

Published as `hmem-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**14 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 11.

### Most discussed

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/Bumblebiber/hmem/issues/35) · 2026-07-12 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Windows compatibility: OpenCode plugin broken on Windows (4 bugs)

## Environment

- OS: Windows 11
- hmem-mcp version: 6.3.2
- OpenCode with bundled plugin (`~/.config/opencode/plugins/hmem.js`)
- Node.js resolves `hmem` as `hmem.ps1` (npm global install)

## Summary

The OpenCode plugin introduced in v6.3.2 does not work on Windows due to four separate issues. Individually none is fatal on other platforms, but together they cause silent failure — no exchanges are logged, no diagnostics are written, and no errors surface to the user. The fixes are what I did t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Bumblebiber/hmem/issues/25) · 2026-04-14 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### write_memory: MCP should coerce stringified arrays for tags/links instead of rejecting

## Problem

When an AI agent calls `write_memory` with `tags` or `links` as a JSON-serialized string instead of a native array, the MCP server returns an opaque validation error:

\`\`\`
MCP error -32602: Input validation error: Invalid arguments for tool write_memory: [
  {
    "expected": "array",
    "code": "invalid_type",
    "path": ["links"],
    "message": "Invalid input: expected array, received string"
  },
  ...
]
\`\`\`

### Example of the bad call

\`\`\`
write_memory(
  prefix: "E"

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Bumblebiber/hmem/issues/14) · 2026-04-02 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### audit_state.json tracks agent without .hmem file → read_agent_memory fails silently

## Bug Description

`get_audit_queue()` returns agent `"default"` as modified, but `read_agent_memory("default")` responds with:

> No .hmem found for agent "default" (expected: /mnt/user/appdata/claude-code/hmem/Agents/default/default.hmem)

## Steps to Reproduce

1. Run `get_audit_queue()` → agent `"default"` appears in queue with a modification timestamp
2. Run `read_agent_memory("default")` → returns "No .hmem found"

## Expected Behavior

`audit_state.json` should only track agents that hav

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Bumblebiber/hmem/issues/11) · 2026-03-30 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### hmem checkpoint hook missing from auto-install (checkpointMode: "auto" has no effect)

When `checkpointMode` is set to `"auto"` in `hmem.config.json`, the checkpoint
Haiku subagent never runs.

**Root cause:** `hmem-startup.sh` skips the checkpoint reminder in auto mode with
this comment:
> "Remind mode only — auto mode is handled by Stop hook (hmem log-exchange + hmem checkpoint)"

But `hmem init` only installs two Stop hooks:
- `hmem-log-exchange.sh`
- `hmem-title-o-entries.sh`

The third Stop hook calling `hmem checkpoint` is never added to `settings.json`.

**Expected behavior

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Bumblebiber/hmem/issues/10) · 2026-03-30 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Most recent

### /o9k-curate skill references wrong MCP server name; setup doesn't register curate server

## Summary

The `/o9k-curate` skill instructs users to enable an MCP server named `o9k-curate`, but the installed binary is `hmem-curate` (per `package.json#bin`) and the default `hmem` setup never registers it as an MCP server. This leads to a dead-end: the user opens `/mcp`, finds no `o9k-curate` entry, and has no documented path to fix it.

Found on `its-over-9k@1.3.4`, macOS 15.5, Claude Code.

## Repro

1. `npm i -g its-over-9k` (fresh install) → registers only the `o9k` MCP server in `~/.c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Bumblebiber/hmem/issues/29) · 2026-05-20 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Windows: `hmem init` writes spurious leading `\\` in `mcp-server.js` path in `opencode.json`

## Environment

- OS: Windows 11
- hmem-mcp: pre-v6.3.2 (present before recent plugin changes)
- OpenCode global config: `~/.config/opencode/opencode.json`

## Description

After running `hmem init` on Windows, the MCP server entry written to `opencode.json` contains a malformed path for `mcp-server.js`:

```json
"command": [
  "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe",
  "\\C:\\Users\\myoun\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\hmem-mcp\\dist\\mcp-server.js"
]
```

Note the spurious `\\` prefix bef

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Bumblebiber/hmem/issues/26) · 2026-04-14 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Multi-shell: log-exchange and statusline not session-aware — wrong project in both

## Problem

When working on two different projects in two Claude Code shells simultaneously, both `statusline` and `log-exchange` resolve the active project via a global DB query:

```sql
SELECT id, title FROM memories WHERE prefix='P' AND obsolete!=1 ORDER BY updated_at DESC LIMIT 1
```

This means:
- **Statusline** shows the same (globally most-recently-updated) project in both shells
- **`log-exchange`** (Stop hook) logs conversation exchanges from Shell 2 into the O-entry of Shell 1's projec

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Bumblebiber/hmem/issues/22) · 2026-04-13 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### context-inject and hook-startup don't provide a verified active project ID, causing agent to hallucinate load_project IDs

## Summary

When `context-inject` runs after `/clear`, it ends with:

> (Context re-injected after /clear. Use load_project for full briefing, read_memory(id) to drill into specific entries.)

This tells the agent to call `load_project` but does **not** specify which project ID to use. If multiple projects have \"Active\" in their title, the agent has no reliable source for a valid ID and hallucinates one (e.g. `P0043`, `P0052`) — neither of which exists in the database.

## Reproduction

1. Hav

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Bumblebiber/hmem/issues/20) · 2026-04-13 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### hmem init ignores existing 'claude mcp' config, missing HMEM_PATH causes cryptic SQLite error

## Bug Description

`hmem init` writes MCP config to `~/.claude.json`, but Claude Code CLI manages its own MCP server registry via `claude mcp add`. If the user has previously run `claude mcp add hmem ... hmem serve` (without `HMEM_PATH`), `init` writes to the wrong location and the broken `claude mcp` entry remains active.

## Root Cause (two issues)

### 1. `hmem init` doesn't detect existing `claude mcp` entries

`hmem init` writes to `~/.claude.json`, but Claude Code CLI ignores this file fo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Bumblebiber/hmem/issues/18) · 2026-04-07 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### spawn('hmem') fails when hmem is not in system PATH (e.g. Unraid)

## Bug

In \`dist/cli-log-exchange.js\` (line 121), the auto-checkpoint feature spawns \`hmem\` by name:

    const child = spawn("hmem", ["checkpoint"], { ... });

This fails with \`Error: spawn hmem ENOENT\` on systems where \`hmem\` is installed
in a non-standard location not in the system PATH.

## Steps to reproduce

1. Install hmem-mcp globally to a custom prefix (e.g. /mnt/user/appdata/npm-global)
2. That path is NOT in the system PATH (on Unraid, /usr/local/bin is wiped on reboot)
3. Set

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Bumblebiber/hmem/issues/9) · 2026-03-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment

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