Fixing Claude Code's Amnesia (blog.fsck.com)

Anthropic expanded Claude.ai’s memory feature to Pro and Max users, but Claude Code itself still ships without an automated episodic memory. To fill that gap, the author built episodic-memory: a Superpowers marketplace plugin that turns Claude Code’s conversation logs into a searchable episodic memory so the agent can recall past sessions, decisions, and tool calls. By default Claude stores conversation .jsonl files in ~/.claude/projects and deletes them after a month (configurable via ~/.claude/settings.json cleanupPeriodDays), but episodic-memory hooks into startup to archive logs into ~/.config/superpowers/conversations-archive and ingests them into a SQLite-backed vector search index for semantic retrieval. Technically, episodic-memory combines an archival hook, a vectorized SQLite DB for semantic search, a CLI to format/share sessions as markdown/HTML, an MCP helper tool, a “skill” that teaches Claude when to query memory, and a small “haiku” subagent to limit context bloat. The result is near-perfect recall across session histories, enabling faster troubleshooting, fewer repeated explanations, and more context-aware suggestions — i.e., preserving the “why” behind past decisions, not just the “what.” Install via the Superpowers marketplace (add obra/superpowers-marketplace, then /plugin install episodic-memory@superpowers-marketplace) to try it out.