Quick Start

Capture a paper, compile it into a wiki note, and recall it.

1. Capture

amem capture https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

Downloads the PDF to ~/.amem/raw/ and prints a cite key (e.g., vaswani2017attention).

2. Compile

amem compile vaswani2017attention

Parses the PDF, chunks it with SHA-256 provenance, runs Ollama paraphrase passes, and writes ~/.amem/wiki/{ts}_vaswani2017attention.md.

3. Recall

amem recall "attention mechanism"

Grep-searches your wiki and returns excerpts with cite keys.

4. Cite

amem cite vaswani2017attention --format bibtex

Prints a formatted citation.

5. Hook it up to Claude

claude mcp add amem -- amem mcp serve

Then ask Claude: “Cite vaswani2017attention in APA format using the amem MCP server.”

Next

• MCP Tools — the four tools agents use
• Storage Layout — what’s in ~/.amem/