Use Case
Hippocampus is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. Persistent memory system for AI agents. Automatic encoding, decay, and semantic reinforcement β just like the hippocampus in your brain. Based on Stanford Generative Agents (Park et al., 2023). This guide walks you through installing Hippocampus, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Hippocampus: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install hippocampus-memory
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to documents & notes to trigger Hippocampus
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Hippocampus with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Hippocampus
Help me get started with Hippocampus
What can Hippocampus do for my documents & notes workflow?
Show me an example of using Hippocampus
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install hippocampus-memoryOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install hippocampus-memoryβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/hippocampus-memory/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.