thedotmack/claude-mem v10.1.0

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SessionStart System Message & Cleaner Defaults

New Features

• SessionStart systemMessage support — Hooks can now display user-visible ANSI-colored messages directly in the CLI via a new systemMessage field on HookResult. The SessionStart hook uses this to render a colored timeline summary (separate from the markdown context injected for Claude), giving users an at-a-glance view of recent activity every time they start a session.

• "View Observations Live" link — Each session start now appends a clickable http://localhost:{port} URL so users can jump straight to the live observation viewer.

Performance

• Truly parallel context fetching — The SessionStart handler now uses Promise.all to fetch both the markdown context (for Claude) and the ANSI-colored timeline (for user display) simultaneously, eliminating the serial fetch overhead.

Defaults Changes

• Cleaner out-of-box experience — New installs now default to a streamlined context display:

  • Read tokens column: hidden (CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_SHOW_READ_TOKENS: false)
  • Work tokens column: hidden (CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_SHOW_WORK_TOKENS: false)
  • Savings amount: hidden (CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_SHOW_SAVINGS_AMOUNT: false)
  • Full observation expansion: disabled (CLAUDE_MEM_CONTEXT_FULL_COUNT: 0)
  • Savings percentage remains visible by default

  Existing users are unaffected — your ~/.claude-mem/settings.json overrides these defaults.

Technical Details

• Added systemMessage?: string to HookResult interface (src/cli/types.ts)
• Claude Code adapter now forwards systemMessage in hook output (src/cli/adapters/claude-code.ts)
• Context handler refactored for parallel fetch with graceful fallback (src/cli/handlers/context.ts)
• Default settings tuned in SettingsDefaultsManager (src/shared/SettingsDefaultsManager.ts)