Agent Working Memory — AI skill for Claude Code

AgentWorkingMemory (AWM)

**Give your AI coding agent a memory that survives the conversation — and knows when to stay quiet.**

Every session with an AI assistant starts blank. It has forgotten what your team decided last week, which approach was tried and rejected, and which table actually holds the thing it needs. So it re-derives all of it — reading files, running searches, asking you — and on a large project it will confidently rebuild something that was already decided against.

AWM fixes that with one local process and one SQLite file. The agent writes short notes as it learns; AWM decides which are worth keeping, hands back the two or three that matter when asked, and says **nothing** when nothing fits.

npm install -g agent-working-memory && awm setup --global

Restart Claude Code. 19 tools appear. No cloud, no API keys, nothing leaves your machine.

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What it does, measured

Every number below is reproducible from this repository against a frozen copy of a **real 30,000-memory store** — not synthetic test data. Method and corrections: [`docs/benchmarks.md`](docs/benchmarks.md).

Returns the right memory first	92.7% of identifier queries · 92.0% of topic queries · ~97% in the top five
Stays silent when it should	90% correct abstention on questions about facts never stored
Halves the digging	Same agent, same tools, four real support tickets: with memory, 2× the specific facts the real answer needed and half the database queries (49 vs 100). On one