Give Claude a permanent memory of you, across every chat. No code, about thirty seconds.
Claude forgets you between conversations. This guide connects it to your LeapMemory account, where your memory lives permanently and privately in its own isolated store, so every new chat starts with Claude already knowing what you have told it before.
In Claude, click your profile picture and open Settings. It opens on the General page, where the Instructions for Claude box is. Pick a mode below, copy the text, paste it into that box, and click Save changes.
Neutral is a safe default: LM fires when you ask about your own things.
I have a connector called LM that holds my long-term memory. Whenever I ask about my own projects, code, rules, decisions, or anything I've told you before, use its recall tool before answering, and prefer it over your own memory. When I share a durable fact about myself, my work, or my preferences, save it with the remember tool right away, every time, without asking.
Manual is the most conservative: LM only fires when you explicitly ask.
I have a connector called LM that holds my long-term memory. Use its recall tool only when I explicitly ask you to check my memory or look something up in LM. When I share a durable fact about myself, my work, or my preferences, save it with the remember tool right away, every time, without asking.
Proactive recalls the most, including passing references, so expect lookups in more conversations.
I have a connector called LM that holds my long-term memory. Before answering, check whether the conversation touches anything I might have told you before: my projects, code, rules, decisions, people, or preferences, including passing references to past work. If it does, use LM's recall tool first and prefer it over your own memory. You do not need me to ask directly. When I share a durable fact about myself, my work, or my preferences, save it with the remember tool right away, every time, without asking.
All three modes describe when memory is read. Saving works the same in every one of them, and it is not limited to what you type: point at something Claude just produced, a list of decisions, a name it found, a conclusion it reached, and say save this to LM. It goes in as it stands.
In the Claude Settings sidebar, under Customize, open Connectors and click Browse connectors. Search for LeapMemory, open it, and press Connect. Claude takes you straight to LeapMemory to approve the connection: click Allow. Everything closes on its own and Claude opens a new chat, connected.
In the new chat, tell Claude something worth remembering:
Remember that I take my coffee black.
Claude calls the remember tool and the fact lands in your memory. Then open a brand new chat, the kind that would normally start from zero, and ask:
How do I take my coffee?
Claude calls recall, finds the fact, and answers. That round trip is the whole product: what you say in one conversation is there in every future one.
Claude Code is Claude in your terminal, and it carries your memory too. It is the same account and the same isolated store: what you save in the chat window is there in the terminal, and the other way around. The three steps above translate directly.
The connector is one command instead of a Settings page:
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user LM https://api.leapmemory.com/mcp
Then, inside a Claude Code session, run /mcp, choose LM, and click Allow in the browser sign-in that opens. It is the same approval as step 2, and --scope user makes the connector available in all your projects.
The instruction lives in a file instead of a Settings box. Paste the preset you chose in step 1 into ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, Claude Code's personal memory file, loaded at the start of every session.
The test is identical: save the coffee fact in one session, open a fresh one, and ask.
The same memory works in any MCP client. Add LM as a custom connector or MCP server with this URL:
https://api.leapmemory.com/mcp
The connector speaks MCP, the open protocol AI assistants use to reach external tools, and the connection is authorized with OAuth: Claude never sees your password, and you can revoke access at any time. Once connected, Claude gets six tools. Three carry your memory: recall, which searches it, briefing, which loads your background picture when a conversation starts, and remember, which saves to it. Three manage your standing rules, instructions Claude follows in every conversation: add_rule saves one, list_rules shows them, and update_rule changes one. You can view, edit, and delete everything, memories and rules alike, in the LeapMemory app.
Your memory itself lives in your own physically isolated store, separate from every other person's, the same isolation architecture the developer API provides. Recall is free and unlimited on every plan; saving counts toward your plan's memories.
Claude never uses LM. Check both halves of the setup: the instruction is actually saved in the Instructions for Claude box (step 1), and the connector shows as connected under Settings, Connectors (step 2). The connector without the instruction sits unused; the instruction without the connector has nothing to call.
Recall misses something you know is saved. Recall works best with specific words: names, projects, terms you actually used. "What did I say about the Atlas deploy" finds more than "what did I say recently."
A just-saved fact does not come back yet. Memories form in the background and typically land within seconds. If you save and immediately recall in the same breath, give it a moment and ask again.