Every morning, I open my terminal and re-explain my entire project to an AI that worked on it yesterday. The architecture, the naming conventions, the bug we were halfway through fixing — all gone. Close the terminal, lose the context. We got tired of it, so we built cliMEM.
The problem
If you've used Claude Code, OpenCode, or Codex CLI, you know how good these agents have become. They read your codebase, refactor across files, and fix bugs faster than you can describe them. But they all share one embarrassing flaw: they're completely stateless.
Every session starts from zero. The agent doesn't know what you decided last Tuesday, what conventions your team follows, or which thread you left half-finished. You either re-explain everything each time, or watch the agent confidently contradict decisions it made yesterday.
The usual workaround is stuffing everything into a giant instructions file or a bigger context window. But that doesn't scale — context windows fill up, instruction files go stale, and none of it captures what actually matters: the decisions made mid-conversation, the conventions that emerged naturally, the open threads you meant to come back to.
