How I Built Persistent Memory for Claude Code

Every Claude Code session starts from zero. Close the terminal and everything is gone. Decisions you locked last week, context from three projects, that debugging session where you finally figured out the root cause. All lost. You re-explain yourself every single time. MEMORY.md is supposed to help. It is a flat file with a 200-line and 25KB cap, no search, and no structure. Worse, the AI decides what gets remembered and what gets thrown away. You have no control over what it keeps, what it summ