# claude-mem

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-mem/

6 people recommended claude-mem in Hacker News comments and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 12 months, in 6 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended as an open-source Claude Code memory plugin that recalls past prompts and replies without many tokens. One caveat: it only records from install forward.

Summary written by Claude from 10 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 7 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Replays past sessions' prompts and replies (1 comment in the sample): "Pretty neat how it can go get individual prompts and replies from previous sessions without consuming a lot of tokens." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430502))
- Low token use (1 comment in the sample): "There are actually good tools to reduce token use" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585038))

## What people warn about

- Heavy on tokens and context (1 comment in the sample): "That's noisy and token-expensive." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422640))

## Other agent memory systems people recommend

- [Engrim](https://hackerapproved.com/p/engrim/): 9 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize
- [Letta](https://hackerapproved.com/p/letta/): 7 recommend, 1 mixed, 4 criticize
- [OKF Agent Memory](https://hackerapproved.com/p/okf-agent-memory/): 5 recommend, 3 mixed, 3 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "claude-mem", https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-mem/ (6 recommend, 0 mixed, 2 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.