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Installation

Prerequisites

  • macOS (primary target) or Linux
  • Rust toolchain (cargo)
  • Ollama running locally — required for the compile step
  • pdftotext (from poppler) — brew install poppler

Install the CLI

The CLI is in private beta and is not publicly distributed yet. If you have access to the source:

cargo install --path .

The Chrome extension works without it — captures stop at page title and URL, which is the part that needs no daemon.

Verify

amem --version
amem --help

Register with Claude Code

cargo install does not auto-register the MCP server. Run this once:

amem mcp install

This registers amem under your user scope (~/.claude.json). After restarting Claude Code, /mcp will show amem · ✔ connected, giving any agent access to amem_capture, amem_compile, amem_cite, amem_recall.

The one-liner shell installer (install.sh) runs this automatically if claude is on PATH.

To undo: amem mcp uninstall.

Pull an Ollama model

ollama pull llama3.1

Override the default model with AMEM_OLLAMA_MODEL=<name> if needed.

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