v13.36.0

A community release: nearly every change since v13.35.0 came from outside contributors and is merged under their own name. Thank you all.

## Highlights

- **Memories are no longer dropped when the provider says no.** An empty Anthropic credit balance, an organization blocking subscription access, or a local model server that is down now pauses the observer and keeps the work instead of discarding it (@Mola-maker). When the observer stream ends early, its batch is handed back for reprocessing (@shantanukhanwalkar).
- **Windows home folders with non-ASCII names work again.** Bun and Claude are found when your user folder name contains Korean, Japanese or other non-ASCII characters (@akushonkamen).
- **Hooks don't report your project's tsconfig as errors.** This affected React Native and Expo projects (@Totopo27).
- **The viewer saves only what you changed,** so an old settings tab can't undo a change you made elsewhere (@Cassian433).
- **Search improvements:**
  - Correct paging (@junnhwan).
  - Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai words are found inside sentences (@rudycelekli).
  - Long natural-language queries fall back to any-term matching when no memory matches every word (@devkancheti4-design).
- **Chroma reliability:**
  - No more stalls after a reboot on large stores (@akushonkamen).
  - Orphaned chroma-mcp processes that hold your data directory are cleaned up safely before starting, so they no longer cause lock fights (@akushonkamen).

## New

- **Qoder** plugin support (@shouldnotappearcalm).
- **Screenpipe** skill for searching meeting and screen history and saving it to memory (@EzraEllette).
- **Atlas Cloud** preset for the OpenAI-compatible provider (@binyangzhu000-sudo).
- **`CLAUDE_MEM_OPENROUTER_TEMPERATURE`** setting (@aeneasr).
- **`CLAUDE_MEM_SEMANTIC_INJECT_FORMAT=index`:** compact per-prompt memory injection (@ktdrv).
- **`CLAUDE_MEM_WORK_STATE_ENABLED=false`** to turn off the work-state to-do rule (@noesis-bot).
- **`CLAUDE_MEM_TOOL_USES_RETENTION_DAYS`:** opt-in pruning of the raw tool log. The default keeps everything (@Montinou).
- **Duplicate review:** record a "distinct" or "dismissed" verdict on duplicate candidates (@Montinou).
- **Viewer:** a Claude auth method control in settings (@akushonkamen).
- **Server runtime:** idempotent memory uploads (@escooterclinic).

## Fixes

- **Capture and sessions:**
  - Original capture timestamps are kept for delayed events (@junnhwan).
  - Stale session-end events are retired (@akushonkamen).
  - Warnings are logged before queued work is discarded (@Boulea7).
  - Tool calls whose input is `null` are captured, logging recovers when the log folder appears later, and every shutdown step runs (@rudycelekli).
  - Search triggers are restored after database upgrades (@akushonkamen).
  - Fewer SQLite warnings on macOS (@CCCLL).
- **Database safety:** the database records the newest schema version that has written to it, and an older claude-mem refuses to open a database a newer one has upgraded (@akushonkamen).
- **Memory import and notes:**
  - Restored memories attach to existing sessions (@junnhwan).
  - Native note revisions survive title dedup (@junnhwan).
  - Explicit notes keep their platform source in the search index (@junnhwan).
  - Notes that start with `----` are no longer mangled (@akushonkamen).
- **Search robustness:** malformed file lists, plain-text concepts, folder search against absolute paths, consistent date parsing, and better patterns for native search commands (@rudycelekli).
- **Installers and integrations:**
  - Cursor configs with a BOM and commented Codex TOML are read correctly, and npm can no longer hang the installer (@rudycelekli).
  - Worker ports and IPv6 addresses are honored everywhere, and the uvx path can be set in settings (@Ravencloned).
- **Providers and streaming:**
  - OpenCode Go session header (@Cassian433).
  - Sturdier streamed replies, emoji never split when long output is trimmed, and Zstandard transcripts keep their text intact (@rudycelekli).
- **Server runtime:**
  - Fresh installs no longer get 403 errors (@DeryFerd).
  - File edits reach the server, and `CLAUDE_MEM_SKIP_TOOLS` is honored in server mode (@DeryFerd).
  - Stuck jobs are reclaimed (@escooterclinic).
  - No stray local database (@vinay121314).
  - Leaner prompts (@rich-murphey).
  - Postgres keeps literal `__proto__` keys in stored JSON (@rudycelekli).
  - Stricter Redis settings (@rudycelekli).
- **Sync, Chroma and duplicates:**
  - Prompts from other devices are linked (@necatisozer).
  - Turning Chroma off is fully honored (@CCCLL).
  - Fewer Chroma rewrites at startup (@Montinou).
  - Accent-aware duplicate detection (@rudycelekli) and a corrected similarity threshold (@udsy19).
- **Viewer:**
  - "Select all" in the Logs drawer works (@DrDLyuan).
  - The context preview opens on a project that has data (@rudycelekli).

## Project

- `main` is now the only branch. `core-dev` and `community-edge` are retired, so please open pull requests against `main`.