One-click local backup for Codex and Claude Code memories.

everos-memory-archive collects local Codex and Claude Code memory files into a readable, deduplicated, traceable, EverOS-style archive. It keeps the original tools untouched, stores redacted Markdown snapshots, writes a SQLite manifest for incremental sync, and compiles a local Memory Pack that future agents can read.

Privacy rule: private memory content must stay on this machine. The backup, compile, search, and verify commands are local and do not call remote APIs. The EverOS handoff is guarded so it only sends Memory Pack contents to a loopback EverOS server whose model endpoints are also configured as loopback URLs.

Agent memory quickly becomes valuable working capital: user preferences, project commands, repo-specific lessons, repeated workflows, writing rules, debugging history, and tool-specific skills.

Codex and Claude Code store useful memory locally, but their complete memory generation, ranking, and injection behavior is controlled by closed-source products. This tool gives you a vendor-neutral local copy that stays readable and portable.

From the repository:

scripts/backup-agent-memories.sh

Equivalent module form:

python3 -m archive_memory backup

After installation:

everos-memory-archive backup

That single command does the full flow:

scan -> incremental sync -> redaction -> hash/version snapshots -> SQLite manifest -> compile Memory Pack -> verify

Expected success signal:

One-click memory backup complete.
Verification: OK
Archive root: ~/.everos/agent_memory_archive

For normal local use:

git clone <your-fork-or-repo-url>
cd everos-memory-archive
python3 -m pip install .
everos-memory-archive backup

For editable development installs, use a modern pip first:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install -e .

No runtime dependencies are required beyond Python 3.9+.

The core backup flow is dependency-free, but the repository also includes a real EverOS handoff step.

Important: use a local EverOS stack only. Do not point EverOS at OpenRouter, DeepInfra, OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other remote model provider for private memory imports. EverOS calls its configured LLM / embedding / rerank endpoints during /add, /flush, and vector search, so remote endpoints would receive memory content.

Start EverOS separately:

pip install everos
everos init
everos server start

EverOS 1.x requires Python 3.12+. Configure its .env with local OpenAI-compatible endpoints, for example local Ollama / vLLM / llama.cpp-compatible services:

EVEROS_LLM__MODEL=local-chat
EVEROS_LLM__API_KEY=local-placeholder
EVEROS_LLM__BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1

EVEROS_MULTIMODAL__MODEL=local-vision
EVEROS_MULTIMODAL__API_KEY=local-placeholder
EVEROS_MULTIMODAL__BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1

EVEROS_EMBEDDING__MODEL=local-embedding
EVEROS_EMBEDDING__API_KEY=local-placeholder
EVEROS_EMBEDDING__BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8001/v1

EVEROS_RERANK__PROVIDER=vllm
EVEROS_RERANK__MODEL=local-rerank
EVEROS_RERANK__BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8002/v1

Then run one command from this repo:

scripts/backup-to-everos.sh --everos-env-file /path/to/everos-local.env

That command runs the local backup first, then imports the compiled Memory Pack into the running EverOS server through:

POST /api/v1/memory/add
POST /api/v1/memory/flush

Default EverOS scope:

base_url   = http://127.0.0.1:8000
app_id     = agent-memory-archive
project_id = codex-claude-code
user_id    = <local user>

You can pass EverOS options through the script:

scripts/backup-to-everos.sh \
  --base-url http://127.0.0.1:8000 \
  --everos-env-file /path/to/everos-local.env \
  --app-id agent-memory-archive \
  --project-id codex-claude-code \
  --user-id local-user

The importer refuses to run when:

• --base-url is not localhost, 127.0.0.1, or ::1.
• EverOS model endpoint settings cannot be found in --everos-env-file, EVEROS_MEMORY_ARCHIVE_EVEROS_ENV_FILE, inherited environment variables, or EverOS' standard dotenv locations.
• Any configured EVEROS_*__BASE_URL model endpoint points to a non-local host.

To import an already compiled Memory Pack without re-running backup:

scripts/import-memory-pack-to-everos.sh --everos-env-file /path/to/everos-local.env

After import, query EverOS directly:

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/memory/search \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "user_id": "local-user",
    "app_id": "agent-memory-archive",
    "project_id": "codex-claude-code",
    "query": "What are my Codex and Claude Code working preferences?",
    "top_k": 5
  }'

This is the point where EverOS becomes the retrieval backend. The local archive still owns collection, redaction, snapshots, and provenance; EverOS owns memory extraction, Markdown-backed memory storage, indexing, and /search.

The implementation is tested around the privacy boundary, not just the happy-path backup command.

Validated invariants:

• backup, compile, search, and verify run locally and do not call remote APIs.
• Codex and Claude Code memory roots are opened read-only.
• Archive writes stay under ~/.everos/agent_memory_archive unless a custom output_root is configured.
• Source snapshots and records are redacted before they are written.
• Incremental state is tracked through the SQLite manifest with source_path + sha256.
• everos-import checks that the EverOS API and configured model endpoints are local before posting Memory Pack content.
• A local EverOS server can ingest the compiled Memory Pack and answer /api/v1/memory/search queries when its own model endpoints are also local.

The core validation commands are:

python3 -m compileall archive_memory tests
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -v
python3 -m archive_memory backup
python3 -m archive_memory verify

If you use Codex, pair this repo with a local skill and trigger it in one sentence:

Use $archive-agent-memories to back up my Codex and Claude Code memories.

The skill should run:

cd /path/to/everos-memory-archive
scripts/backup-agent-memories.sh

The public skill template is included at:

skills/archive-agent-memories/SKILL.md

Install it into Codex by copying that folder to:

~/.codex/skills/archive-agent-memories/

Default source roots:

~/.claude
~/.codex/memories

The collectors use explicit allowlists. They include readable memory files such as:

It intentionally skips raw sessions, cache folders, shell snapshots, credentials, telemetry, task state, file history, and JSONL conversation logs.

Default archive root:

~/.everos/agent_memory_archive/
  claude_code/
    sources/
      <redacted latest snapshots>
      <name>.versions/<sha256>.md
    records/
      user/<user_id>/
      agents/claude-code/
  codex/
    sources/
      <redacted latest snapshots>
      <name>.versions/<sha256>.md
    records/
      user/<user_id>/
      agents/codex/
  unified_index/
    manifest.sqlite
    reports/
      latest.json
  compiled/
    README.md
    memory_map.md
    recent_changes.md
    user_preferences.md
    agent_skills.md
    project_cases.md
    conflicts.md
    bootstrap_context.md

The archive separates source-specific snapshots from normalized Markdown records:

backup runs compile by default. You can also run it directly:

everos-memory-archive compile

Generated files:

The current compiler is deterministic and local. It does not call an LLM or remote API.

# One-click default.
scripts/backup-agent-memories.sh

# One-click backup plus EverOS import. Requires local EverOS + local model endpoints.
scripts/backup-to-everos.sh --everos-env-file /path/to/everos-local.env

# Same flow through the installed CLI.
everos-memory-archive backup

# Import compiled Memory Pack into EverOS without re-running backup.
everos-memory-archive everos-import --everos-env-file /path/to/everos-local.env

# Preview source files without writing.
everos-memory-archive scan --dry-run

# Incremental archive sync only.
everos-memory-archive sync --source claude,codex

# Compile the Memory Pack.
everos-memory-archive compile

# Verify archive integrity and secret redaction.
everos-memory-archive verify

# Search archived records with keyword search.
everos-memory-archive search "local code first"

# Show import counts.
everos-memory-archive stats

# Show latest sync report.
everos-memory-archive report --latest

Generate a local config:

everos-memory-archive init-config --path configs/local.toml

Example:

[sources]
claude_code_root = "~/.claude"
codex_memory_root = "~/.codex/memories"
repo_roots = ["~/code"]

[everos]
output_root = "~/.everos/agent_memory_archive"
user_id = "local-user"

[everos.agents]
claude_code = "claude-code"
codex = "codex"

Use it with:

everos-memory-archive --config configs/local.toml backup

The shell scripts also accept --config and resolve relative config paths from the directory where you run the script:

/path/to/everos-memory-archive/scripts/backup-agent-memories.sh --config configs/local.toml

backup and sync both use SHA-256 based incremental state:

Security goals:

• Treat Codex and Claude Code source roots as read-only.
• Keep archive writes under output_root.
• Preserve source paths for audit and provenance.
• Redact common secrets before writing snapshots, records, and metadata.
• Reject source symlink escapes.
• Reject archive output symlink writes.
• Validate manifest paths before search and compile read records.
• Verify that archived records and snapshots stay under the archive root.

Current redaction covers common assignment forms, JSON-style secrets, OpenAI and Anthropic keys, GitHub tokens, AWS access keys, Bearer tokens, and PEM private key blocks. Redaction is a safety layer, not a substitute for reviewing sensitive local data before publishing or sharing an archive.

Run verification any time:

everos-memory-archive verify

python3 -m compileall archive_memory tests
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -v
python3 -m archive_memory backup
python3 -m archive_memory verify

The test suite includes regression coverage for:

• common secret formats and metadata redaction
• source symlink escape prevention
• output symlink overwrite prevention
• manifest path trust in search and compile
• local-only EverOS API and model endpoint guards
• CLI-friendly EverOS import refusal errors
• one-click backup

MIT. See LICENSE.