Connect an agent

nicemem speaks MCP — the protocol Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and most agent tools use to reach external services. One hosted endpoint, nothing to install:

https://nicemem.com/mcp

Transport is streamable HTTP; auth is your API key in the Authorization header. Any MCP client that supports those two things can connect.

Create a key

In Settings → Keys, create a key and give it a name you'll recognize later ("laptop / Claude Code"). Two choices at creation:

• Write policy — direct commits writes immediately; review sends them to your inbox for approval first. Use review for agents you don't fully trust yet.
• Space pin (optional) — pin the key to a space and it can only read that space plus open spaces, with writes landing in the pinned space by default. Good for scoping a work agent away from personal memories.

The key is shown once, at creation. Copy it then.

Connect Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http nicemem https://nicemem.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer nicemem_sk_…"

Other clients: point them at the endpoint above with the same header. No session setup, no OAuth dance — the key is the whole handshake.

The tools

Deliberately few:

Tool	What it does
add_memory	Save a memory — content plus optional kind, title, tags, space.
search_memories	Semantic search, ranked by relevance × strength.
recent_memories	The timeline, newest first — orientation for agents.
list_spaces	The spaces this key can see.
get_memory	Fetch one memory by id.
update_memory	Edit a memory — corrections re-embed automatically.
delete_memory	Soft-delete a memory.

Two things worth knowing: a save through a review key returns status: "pending" — that's the inbox working, not an error. And writes should pass a source_label (like claude-code) so you can tell your agents apart in the timeline and inbox.

Teach it judgement

Connecting an agent gives it the tools; it doesn't teach it when to use them. That's what the agent prompt is for — install it in your agent's instructions and the difference in memory quality is immediate.