thedotmack/claude-mem v13.38.0

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No more console window flashing on Windows. Every Claude Code hook now calls claude-mem directly instead of going through bash, and this release also carries 16 community fixes from five contributors.

Hooks call claude-mem directly (#4345)

Every Claude Code runtime hook now runs a small claude-mem launcher in exec form ("command": "claude-mem", "args": [...]), with no shell in between. On Windows that ends the console window that used to flash and steal focus on every tool call (#3605, #3559, #3521, #3396, #3248).

• npx claude-mem install / update compile the launcher on your machine. It goes to ~/.local/bin/claude-mem on macOS and Linux, or %LOCALAPPDATA%\claude-mem\bin\claude-mem.exe on Windows, and that folder is added to your PATH if it isn't there already. npx claude-mem uninstall removes the launcher.
• Marketplace-only installs repair themselves. A startup step places or refreshes the launcher and tells you when Claude Code needs a restart.
• The launcher fails open. On any problem it prints one line, claude-mem: <reason>, continuing without memory, and your session carries on.
• The environment opt-outs (CLAUDE_MEM_DISABLE_TOOL_HOOKS, CLAUDE_MEM_DISABLE_OBSERVATION, CLAUDE_MEM_DISABLE_FILE_CONTEXT) still take effect before anything heavy starts.

Before you upgrade:

• Hooks in exec form need Claude Code 2.1.139 or newer. install and doctor warn on older versions.
• If the launcher's folder wasn't on your PATH yet, the first session after updating will tell you to restart Claude Code from a new terminal. After that, everything works as before.

Thanks @bagr001 for testing it on Windows 11.

Observer and worker

• Gateways that reject the thinking parameter no longer stall the observer (#4735, @akushonkamen). The observer retries once without the parameter. The token-saving default is unchanged, and CLAUDE_MEM_OBSERVER_THINKING is now documented.
• The worker no longer wedges for hours on big repos (#4753, @akushonkamen). Git commands during worktree adoption now run without blocking the event loop.
• The streamed-request idle window is configurable (#4752, @akushonkamen) with CLAUDE_MEM_LLM_STREAM_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS, for self-hosted backends with long queue waits. The default is still 90 seconds.
• CLAUDE_MEM_DISABLE_SUMMARY=1 skips the end-of-session summary for headless or read-only runs (#4736, @akushonkamen).
• Mode prompts are validated, and a user mode file can no longer shadow a bundled mode (#4326).
• Three platform fixes (#3851):
  • manual sessions keep their platform;
  • an error-shaped response is no longer taken for a host observer;
  • Grok agents added after install are watched.
• The Codex installer drops a dead local marketplace registration, and install fails when Codex doesn't list the plugin afterwards (#3494).

Search, viewer and data, thank you @rudycelekli

• Semantic search no longer breaks on empty filters (#4754) or on malformed stored concept or file data (#4750). It now matches keyword search.
• The Sessions list matches project names regardless of case (#4749).
• Feed rows with the same timestamp come back in a stable newest-first order (#4747).
• Repeated prompts with their own native turn ids are no longer merged into one (#4748).
• Restoring an export keeps each prompt's native turn id (#4751).
• Deleting a project's last memories brings the welcome hint back right away (#4742).
• A corpus built without a limit gets the documented 500 observations, and limits above 100 are no longer capped at 100 (#4746).

Sync and server

• Chroma writes for the same memory are serialized and re-read the current row (#4731, @junnhwan). A startup backfill or a delayed cloud forward can no longer index an old body or old project.
• On the self-hosted server, a reclaimed generation attempt can't complete or fail its replacement (#4739, @junnhwan). Postgres regression tests now run in CI.
• The self-hosted sync server puts brackets around IPv6 hosts in its advertised URL (#4723, @DeryFerd).

Viewer

• The NOTES section icon is sized like its siblings (#4744, @phant0um, first contribution). It used to render about 20× too large.

Claude app (cowork) plugin

• Session-init now runs in the background, and the plugin's hooks stand down when a local claude-mem install is present (#4755).

Docs and skills

• The make-plan skill has a Primary Goal section and a fixed short chat summary (#3600).
• The wowerpoint skill stops once the deck has started and no longer uploads (#4342).
• Docs no longer mention workers.dev for the sync hub (#4366).

Thanks to everyone who reported and fixed things this round: @rudycelekli, @junnhwan, @akushonkamen, @DeryFerd, @phant0um, @valerianbbragi, @smashingtags, @wuding129, @chris-yyau, @bagr001.

Full diff: v13.37.0...v13.38.0