I'm the solo dev, and I built this with Claude Code, for Claude Code users, so flagging that up front.

The itch was simple. Every new Claude Code session starts from zero. My [CLAUDE.md](http://CLAUDE.md) kept growing, going stale, and getting truncated, and there was no way to tell when a note no longer matched the actual code. I was re-explaining the same project every morning.

So over the last several months I built Memophant, a native macOS app, almost entirely in Claude Code itself. It keeps your project memory as plain markdown inside your git repo and serves it back to Claude Code through a bundled MCP server. Next session, Claude reads the memory at startup and is already up to speed. No copy-paste, no re-priming.

What it actually does:

* Stores memory as plain markdown in your repo across tiers: an atomic knowledge graph, a long-form wiki, a design system, a code-symbol index, a [TASKS.md](http://TASKS.md) kanban, imported sessions, documents, and a vendor/credential registry (secrets stay in your Keychain).
* Exposes all of it to Claude Code over MCP (search\_memories, search\_code, write\_memory, and more), so memory lives in your editor instead of a context window you keep rebuilding.
* Distills Claude Code transcripts into durable notes. You hand it a session, it proposes memory, you approve note by note.
* Flags drift: every note records the commit it was written against, so when the code moves the note shows as stale instead of quietly misleading the next session.

How Claude helped: beyond writing most of the Swift, Claude Code was the test case. I used the drift and distillation features on Memophant's own repo while building it, which is how I tuned what gets surfaced versus what stays out of context.

It's free to try: a 30-day trial, no account, no card. After the trial the core (reading, editing, search, drift, commits, the MCP server for your existing memory) stays free, and the agentic actions like Distill and Consolidate are part of a one-time $49.99 license. Your Anthropic key is only used for those in-app AI actions and lives in the Keychain.

Site with the full tier breakdown and screenshots: [https://memophant.co](https://memophant.co/)

Curious how others here are handling Claude Code memory today. Are you living in [CLAUDE.md](http://CLAUDE.md), leaning on /memory, or something else? What breaks for you?

I built a macOS app with Claude Code to fix the thing Claude Code can't fix on its own: it forgets your repo every session