Lampway
Lampway — the Keeper carrying a lantern

Light the way through your Vault.

Persistent memory for Claude, tended by the Keeper.

Lampway is a Claude Desktop Extension that gives Claude persistent memory across every conversation — Chat, Cowork, and Code. The Keeper tends a sovereign Vault on your machine: a folder of plain Markdown you own, accessible through two MCP tools when you talk to Claude.

Runs entirely on your machine — no telemetry, no cookies, no phone-home.

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What you get

Sovereign Vault

A folder on your machine that you own. Lampway reads and writes it via MCP tools when you talk to the Keeper. Survives Lampway uninstall. Sync via iCloud, OneDrive, Dropbox, or git — your choice.

Memory across all modes

Save in Chat, recall in Cowork, browse in Code. A single Vault shared across every Claude Desktop surface, plus the Claude Code CLI.

Seven Built-in Skills

/lw-introduce walks you through First-run. /lw-handoff wraps up a session and saves what's worth carrying forward. /lw-capture-thought, /lw-daily-journal, /lw-prep-for-meeting, /lw-weekly-review — named rituals that turn the Vault into a daily habit. /lw-new-project scaffolds a project folder when you start something new. In CCD you invoke them by name; in Chat or Cowork, just ask the Keeper.

Local dashboard

A visual Vault browser at http://127.0.0.1:PORT (Lampway logs the URL on startup). Two themes (Terminal + Paper), six accent flavors. Read-only in v0.5; reads come straight from disk.

How it works

  1. Download the latest .mcpb bundle from the Releases page.
  2. Drag it into Claude Desktop's Settings → Extensions. The install dialog asks where your Vault should live — pick any folder.
  3. Invoke /lw-introduce in a new Claude conversation. In Chat or Cowork — type / (or click +) and pick lw-introduce from the list. In CCD — type /lw-introduce in the slash picker. The Skill walks you through pasting two short templates into Profile Preferences and Cowork Folder Instructions (~2 minutes). After that the Keeper is reachable from every mode — no "Keeper, …" prefix needed.

That's it. Ask the Keeper to remember something. Ask what it knows about you. The answers come from your Vault.