Memory Vault v1.0 — building open-source AI memory the boring way

Originally published on mihaibuilds.com . Cross-posting here because dev.to is where I find a lot of this kind of work myself. For the past year I kept hitting the same wall. I'd have a real conversation with Claude — work through a database design, debug something gnarly, agree on a convention I wanted to keep — and the next morning it was gone. Not summarized. Not searchable. Just gone. ChatGPT was the same. Every assistant I used had the long-term memory of a goldfish, and the workaround the