@13w/memory

npm package for local-rag — a local, co-located MCP service for Claude Code (persistent memory, hybrid semantic code search, spool-only observation capture).

npm install --global @13w/memory

Its job is to obtain and expose the native binaries, not to contain them. Installing the package fetches the release assets for your platform from the project's own GitHub releases, verifies each against the checksum published in the same release, and puts local-rag, local-rag-proxy, local-rag-hook and local-rag-tui side by side in one directory. They stay side by side deliberately: the proxy finds its daemon by looking next to itself.

The commands then resolve an executable, in this order:

1. LOCAL_RAG_BIN_DIR, if you set it — a directory of prebuilt binaries that wins over everything and downloads nothing. This is the supported route for an air-gapped or mirrored install.
2. A source checkout, when the package is running from inside one (pnpm link --global from a clone). Then target/release is used, and nothing is downloaded — the local build is the point.
3. The binaries this package installed.

If none of those holds a complete set, the commands print what is missing and the one command that fixes it, rather than a stack trace.

Verification is against the checksum sidecar published beside each asset. That defends against corruption in transit and tampering on the wire; it does not defend against a compromised release, because whoever can publish an asset can publish its digest.

See the distribution specification and ADR-0013 in the repository for the full specification and the reasoning behind it.

License

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE and NOTICE in this package.