How to Give Claude Code a Memory

I wrote about why I built a memory system for Claude. The short version: Claude's built-in memory extracts facts automatically with no audit trail, no version control, and no way to scope what different agents see. I wanted control. This post is the practical companion. If you want to build your own, here's how mine works, what each piece does, and the order I'd set it up in if I were starting today. The full stack is documented in homelab-agent. What You're Building A memory system with three properties: Persistent - context survives across sessions.