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name: claude-mem-install description: >- Use this when setting up claude-mem on Cursor: local or remote worker, local host-login observer or remote cmem.ai inference.

Install claude-mem on Cursor

Independent of Grok Bot. Do not require the other IDE.

Local worker (default)

npx claude-mem install --ide cursor

Starts the local worker. Hooks already ship with this plugin. MCP claude-mem-local talks to it.

Observer:

• Remote inference (typical): leave provider as openrouter / cmem.ai (CLAUDE_MEM_OPENROUTER_BASE_URL=https://cmem.ai/api/inference/v1)
• Local host-login: --provider host (loopback shim; never bind the worker port — on macOS the worker is often 37777, so the shim uses 37778)

Remote worker

npx claude-mem install --ide cursor --runtime server --server-url https://YOUR_HOST

Set plugin variable CLAUDE_MEM_MCP_TOKEN for claude-mem-remote (https://cmem.ai/api/mcp or your server).

Never restart a healthy worker (RAM queue). No Claude CLI required for host/openrouter.