INSTALL
$ claude plugin marketplace add abernier/claudia$ claude plugin install claudia@claudia --scope user
~/.claudia
Talking to Claudia writes a plain-Markdown memory, enriched conversation after conversation — entirely on your machine:
SKILLS
What ships in the plugin — each one a readable SKILL.md.
integrative
The persona core (the claudia skill) — stays in character, generalist scope. Person-centered at the base; CBT, ACT, MI, solution-focused and mindfulness as the toolbox, reached for when indicated.
recall · remember · distill-session
The memory cycle — continuity loaded at open, the person model kept current along the way, a distilled summary written at close.
consult
A second opinion from any session — on a question, a text, a situation. Sealed by construction: no vault access, and she will neither confirm nor deny knowing anyone.
exercise · teach · quiz
Between-session material — thought records, values compasses, grounding practices, psychoeducation, recall drills. Written to the vault, in your language.
relationships · themes · timeline
The maps — a mermaid ecomap of your people, recurring threads you ratify, a person-led life timeline. Plain files, all correctable.
intake · understand · choose-approach
The pipeline — an intake pass when you arrive, a working understanding kept provisional and dated, the approach picked — and argued — case by case.
COMMANDS
Ten. The rest is conversation.
/menu- Not sure where to start? A few things open for you right now.
/keep- Keep a passage that landed, word for word, to re-read whenever.
/dashboard- A bird's-eye mirror of where things are — pulled by you, never recited at you.
/thread- The thread of the conversation so far — a light reflection to gather back.
DESIGN
Deliberate choices, recorded as ADRs in docs/adr/.
Local
The vault lives in ~/.claudia, on your machine — no server, no sync, no telemetry. /export takes everything with you; /forget deletes for real.
Config
config.json is declared keys with closed value sets — emoji, saveTranscripts, dashboard, language, verbose — resolved by code, never parsed as free text: a setting cannot smuggle an instruction into the persona.
Multi-approach
Person-centered at the base; CBT, ACT, MI, solution-focused, mindfulness & self-compassion as the toolbox — the approach picked, and argued, case by case.
Distilled, never verbatim
recall reads sessions/*.summary.md — the distilled layer. The verbatim transcript is your archive: kept for you, exportable, and never read back in routine.
No index, no vectors
recall opens named files — safety.md first, then person.md, understanding.md, the latest summary.md. No embeddings, no vector store, nothing to reindex: retrieval goes by path. Everything she loads is a file you can open, read and correct.