making claude code smarter

i’ve been working on ways to improve my claude code workflow. i recently gave a talk at work and published an article about “using claude code more intentionally”. as part of that exploration, i dug deep into skills and ways to improve claude code (both manually and automatically).

one of the cool things that stuck with me was the idea of letting claude code learn from itself and improve its own memory. there are quite a few projects that look to solve this, but I set out to build my own. i call it recall and it’s fairly simple.

• every time you use claude code, the session is saved.
• every night, all your sessions from that day are compressed and distilled.
• that distilled knowledge is saved to a vault and a small index is created.
• every new claude code session injects that index as additional context.

that’s it. that’s all it took to give claude a self-improving, persistent memory. it’s been working pretty well for me! i have another article coming out soon that talks a bit more about it – but if you want to learn more or try it out, head over to https://capturedistillrecall.com.