Smara + Claude
Claude, with a memory that's actually yours.
Three steps: connect, install the Skill, say one phrase. Ten minutes from now Claude greets you like it never forgot — and everything it learns is yours to inspect, correct, and take anywhere.
Fair warning from our beta: most people who add the connector and stop there never see their memory do anything. Claude doesn't volunteer tools it hasn't been asked to use — steps two and three are what bring it to life.
Add the connector.
In Claude (web, desktop, or mobile): open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste the URL, and approve access on the consent screen that opens. No client ID, no secret — Claude registers itself and signs you in with your Smara account.
Don't have an account yet? The consent screen will walk you through creating one — or sign up first (free during preview).
In Claude Code, it's one command — the browser opens for the same consent screen.
https://api.smara.dev/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http smara https://api.smara.dev/mcpInstall the smara-memory Skill.
This is the step people skip, and it's the one that makes memory automatic. The Skill teaches Claude the memory discipline: recall what it knows at the start of every conversation, record durable facts as they appear, and correct old memories when you contradict them — all without being asked.
In Claude: download the Skill file, then add it under Settings → Capabilities → Skills.
In Claude Code: save it as ~/.claude/skills/smara-memory/SKILL.md.
What the Skill carries
- Recall-firstget_context on the first message of every conversation — Claude starts already knowing you.
- Honest importanceidentity facts near 1.0, passing details near 0.2 — so decay keeps what matters.
- Correctionscontradict an old fact and Claude supersedes it, with the change in your audit trail.
- Domain awarenesspersonal, professional, family, health — recall narrows when the conversation does.
Say the phrase.
Open a new conversation and say the starter phrase. Claude will store its first real memory and read back what it already knows — including the welcome note Smara left when you connected.
Then close the conversation, open a fresh one, and ask what it knows about you. That round trip — store, consolidate, recall — is the whole product in thirty seconds.
Use Smara to remember that I'm trying out my new memory —
and tell me what you already know about me.Check my Smara memory — what do you know about me?What happens next
Your memory starts working while you don't.
Watch it fill
Every fact Claude saves appears in the portal — with its confidence, its provenance, and a forget button.
Open your memoriesWake to a dream report
Tonight Smara consolidates: duplicates merge, contradictions resolve. Every edit is auditable in the morning.
How dreaming worksBring your history
Ask Claude to migrate what it already knows about you — the smara-migrate Skill makes the assistant itself the migration tool. Full chat exports import separately via the docs.
Get the smara-migrate SkillUsing a different assistant?
ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok connect to the same memory — setup lives in the docs, and what one assistant learns, the others know.