- name
- mem-setup
- description
- This skill should be used when the user asks to "set up claude-mem", "pair claude-mem", "connect cmem", "add my cmem key", "set up cloud sync in Cowork" or in the Claude app, or provides cmem.ai Connect values (sync token, user id, SyncHub URL) for this plugin. Configures the CMEM Pro plugin credentials.
- metadata
- version: "0.1.0"
Claude-Mem Setup (Claude app pairing)
Configure this plugin with the user's own cmem.ai credentials so hooks can capture and inject memory. Anyone can pair — credentials are per-user configuration, never hardcoded in plugin logic.
What to collect
From cmem.ai → Connect, the user has three values:
- sync token (starts with
cm_) — used as the bearer API key - user id (UUID)
- SyncHub URL (
https://sync.cmem.ai)
If the user pastes the whole Connect blurb, extract the three values from it. If any are missing, ask for the sync token at minimum — the other two are optional.
Secret handling — non-negotiable
- Never echo the token back in conversation, put it in a shell argv, or log it.
- Move it only via file writes (Write/Edit tool) and file reads.
Steps
-
Locate the installed plugin root (this skill's own plugin). Update its
config.json: setapiKeyto the sync token,userId, andsyncHubUrl. Leave other settings unless the user asks (injecttoggles). Project naming is automatic (cmem_work_*) and is not configurable. -
Claude app containers are ephemeral: edits to the installed copy last only for this session. To make pairing permanent, repackage — zip the plugin directory as
<plugin-name>.pluginand send it to the user to re-install (the cowork-plugin skill's packaging flow). Tell the user this is why. -
If this machine also has a local claude-mem install (a
~/.claude-mem/directory exists), write the same values to~/.claude-mem/settings.jsonwith mode 0600 (CLAUDE_MEM_CLOUD_SYNC_TOKEN,CLAUDE_MEM_CLOUD_SYNC_USER_ID,CLAUDE_MEM_CLOUD_SYNC_HUB_URLkeys — the same keys the local claude-mem cloud-sync pairing writes). This plugin's hooks stay off wherever claude-mem is installed locally, so that pairing is what carries this machine's work to cmem.ai. The worker reads those keys only at startup: restart it and run the claude-mem cloud-sync skill's Verify step, which must report and . Don't report success before it does; if it never does, pair through that skill's installer flow instead.