Why Learning, Not Memory

Most memory solutions are still mostly informative—Claude remembers what happened, without necessarily changing what it does next.

claude-smart focuses on learning instead.

Four ways this changes what Claude Code can do for you:

• 💡 Stop repeating the same mistakes: Produces actionable playbooks Claude can follow next time; memory only records what happened.

  Example: you tell Claude to stop running npm test without --run because watch mode hangs. Memory: “user was annoyed about npm test hanging” Learning: “always pass --run to npm test in this repo — default watch mode blocks CI”

• 🚀 Start from the optimized path: Preserves and optimizes execution paths so Claude can reuse what already works.

  Example: Claude spends several iterations trying to start the local dev environment before discovering that this repo requires pnpm dev:all instead of the usual npm run dev. Memory: “user mentioned that npm run dev did not work” Learning: “for this repo, always use pnpm dev:all to start the full local stack — npm run dev only starts the frontend and causes missing service errors”

  Instead of re-exploring, Claude starts from the proven path—reducing planning steps, latency, and token usage.

• 🌐 Global playbook, project-scoped profiles: Session memory disappears with the conversation. The playbook persists globally — rules learned in one repo are available in every repo you work in — while user profiles stay scoped to the current project so per-repo preferences don't leak across projects.

• 🪶 Better context without prompt bloat: Distilled, deduplicated playbooks stay in dozens of tokens—not thousands—even as the project grows.

Quick Start

npx claude-smart install     # or: uvx claude-smart install

Or run the equivalent marketplace commands directly via the Claude Code CLI:

claude plugin marketplace add ReflexioAI/claude-smart
claude plugin install claude-smart@reflexioai

Then restart Claude Code.

To uninstall:

npx claude-smart uninstall     # or: uvx claude-smart uninstall

Or run the equivalent command directly via the Claude Code CLI:

claude plugin uninstall claude-smart@reflexioai

Local data under ~/.reflexio/ and ~/.claude-smart/ is left in place — remove manually if desired.

Developing the plugin itself? See DEVELOPER.md.

Not supported: Claude Code Cowork and claude.ai/code web — they run in a remote sandbox, so the local backend/dashboard and ~/.reflexio/ aren't reachable.

Key Features

• 🧠 Learn, don't just remember — Corrections become structured, deduplicated rules, not transcript replays.
• ⚡ Fully automatic learning — Every user turn, tool call, and assistant response is captured via lifecycle hooks and extracted into rules without you running anything.
• 📈 Updates with every session — Playbooks auto-merge, supersede, and archive as your project evolves — the playbook sharpens with use instead of bloating.

  e.g. you correct the same npm test --run gotcha twice → claude-smart consolidates them into one stronger rule. Later you switch the policy to pnpm test → the old rule is archived and the new one supersedes it, no manual cleanup.

• 🔌 No external API call — semantic search runs on an in-process ONNX embedder (all-MiniLM-L6-v2), and all data (profiles, playbooks, interaction buffers) is stored locally on your machine (~/.reflexio/ and ~/.claude-smart/).
• 🔎 Hybrid search — Playbooks and profiles are indexed with vector + BM25 search for fast, robust retrieval.
• 🧪 Offline resilience — If the reflexio backend is down, hooks buffer to disk; the next successful publish drains them.
• 🧰 Manual correction marker — /claude-smart:learn flags the last turn as a correction so the extractor weights it heavily.

Dashboard

A web UI for browsing session histories, inspecting user profiles, and editing playbook rules. The dashboard auto-starts alongside the backend, so you can open http://localhost:3001 directly. Or run /claude-smart:dashboard in Claude Code to launch dashboard in browser.

How It Works

claude-smart builds two artifacts as you work and injects them into Claude at the start of every new session:

• User profile (project-scoped) — preferences about how you work in this specific repo (stack, role, small quirks). e.g. "uses pnpm, not npm"; "prefers terse answers"; "backend engineer — explain frontend with backend analogues."
• Playbook (global, cross-project) — durable, generalized rules accumulated across every session, shared across every project you use claude-smart in. Each rule says when it applies and why, so a rule learned in one repo only fires in the contexts where it's relevant. e.g. "always pass --run to npm test — watch mode hangs CI"; "use real Postgres for integration tests — mocks once hid a broken migration."

Playbooks clean themselves up: correct the same thing twice and they merge; change your mind and the old one is archived.

Under the hood: hooks watch your turns, tool calls, and Claude's replies, auto-flagging corrections (or anything you flag with /learn). At session end (or on /learn), reflexio — the self-improving engine that powers claude-smart — extracts profile entries and playbook rules. Next session, both get injected into the system prompt — run /show to see what Claude is being told. Everything runs on your machine.

Citations (cs-cite). At the end of a reply, Claude may run:

⏺ Bash(cs-cite r1-252,p1-5aed)
  ⎿  (No output)

⏺ ✨ 2 claude-smart learnings applied

That signals a profile entry (p…) or playbook rule (r…) materially shaped the reply. Open the interaction's detail page in the dashboard to see the exact cited item.

See ARCHITECTURE.md for hooks, data flow, and reflexio details.

Slash Commands

| Command | What it does | | --- | --- | | /dashboard | Open the dashboard in your browser, auto-starting the reflexio backend and dashboard services if they aren't already running. | | /show | Print the current (global) playbook plus the current project's user profiles (same markdown that SessionStart injects). Use it to audit what playbooks and preferences Claude is being told to follow. | | /learn [note] | Flag the most recent turn as a correction (for cases the automatic heuristic missed) and force reflexio to run extraction now on the session's unpublished interactions. The optional note becomes the correction description the extractor sees. | | /restart | Restart the reflexio backend and dashboard to pick up new changes (e.g. after upgrading the plugin or editing local reflexio code). | | /clear-all | Destructive. Delete all reflexio interactions, profiles, and user playbooks. Use when you want to wipe learned state and start fresh. |

Configuration

Advanced users can tune claude-smart via environment variables — see DEVELOPER.md for the full list.

Where data lives

| Path | What | | --- | --- | | ~/.reflexio/data/reflexio.db | Source of truth — profiles, user_playbooks, interactions, FTS5 indexes, and vec0 embedding tables (plus .db-shm / .db-wal WAL sidecars). Inspect with sqlite3. | | ~/.reflexio/.env | Provider config — CLAUDE_SMART_USE_LOCAL_CLI, CLAUDE_SMART_USE_LOCAL_EMBEDDING, any optional API keys. | | ~/.reflexio/plugin-root | Self-healed symlink to the active plugin dir (managed by ensure-plugin-root.sh — written on install, refreshed each SessionStart). Slash commands resolve through it, so don't delete it; if you do, the next session will recreate it. | | ~/.claude-smart/sessions/{session_id}.jsonl | Per-session buffer. User turns, assistant turns, tool invocations, {"published_up_to": N} watermarks. Safe to inspect and safe to delete — everything past the latest watermark has already been written to reflexio's DB. | | ~/.cache/chroma/onnx_models/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/ | Cached ONNX weights (~86 MB, downloaded once). Delete to force a re-download. |

For troubleshooting, see TROUBLESHOOTING.md.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. The bundled reflexio/ submodule is also Apache 2.0. Claude Code is Anthropic's and not covered by this license.

See the LICENSE file for details.

Support

• Issues: open one on GitHub describing the symptom and include the reflexio backend log (~/.claude-smart/backend.log) and the relevant lines of ~/.claude-smart/sessions/{session_id}.jsonl.

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