Why Every AI Tool You Use Forgets You (And How I Fixed It)

Open Claude Desktop. Explain your preferences. Switch to Cursor. Explain them again. Open a new chat tomorrow. Start from zero. Again. Every AI tool today treats you like a stranger. Not because the models can't remember - because nothing connects them. There's no shared memory, no persistent identity, no accumulated context. Each session is a blank slate. I kept running into this while using AI coding assistants and desktop clients across my workflow. The tools are powerful individually, but collectively they have amnesia. The same questions, the same corrections, the same context-setting ritual, every single time. So I built GroundMemory. What it is GroundMemory is a persistent memory layer for AI agents. It runs as an MCP server (or Python library) that any MCP-compatible tool can connect to - Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, Claude Code, Open WebUI, n8n, and more. Once connected, your agent has: Long-term memory (MEMORY.md) - facts, preferences, decisions that survive forev