🧠 Mind Map — MCP memory & context-handoff server
Ever lose the thread of a discussion across Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and your other AI tools? Mind Map is a small, local-first MCP server that acts as a shared memory layer across all your local MCP clients.
You capture context at the end of a session, and resume it in any other tool — no more re-explaining your project from scratch. Memory you stop using cools and decays gracefully into one-line traces (it's never silently deleted), so your shelf stays small and trustworthy instead of becoming another haystack.
Local-first by design. It runs on your machine; your memories are plain files in
~/.mindmapthat never leave your control. No account, no cloud, no server to trust. Install once withnpx @ravi-labs/mindmap-mcp-server install.
ChatGPT and other cloud/web clients are out of scope for now — they can't reach a local server without a public endpoint, which conflicts with local-first. See Future.
The idea in one loop
- Capture (effortless) — at the end of a discussion, save a portable summary.
- Resume (promote-on-reuse) — pull it forward in a new session. The act of reusing it is what promotes it to trusted memory. Throwaway sessions never get promoted, so they never clutter your shelf.
- Consolidate (automatic) — a background pass cools unused memory through tiers (🔥 hot → 🌤️ warm → ❄️ cold) and collapses cold items to a searchable one-line trace. The moat isn't storing things — it's forgetting well.
- Tidy (opt-in, gamified) — a cleanliness score rewards pruning, not hoarding.






