"Consider the elephant. Legend has it its memory is so robust it never forgets."
- Gavin Belson
Claude Code forgets everything between sessions. Elephant fixes that.
Stop re-explaining your stack. Stop pasting context. Just build.
Every Claude Code session starts cold. No memory of your stack, your decisions, your ongoing work. You spend the first minutes re-explaining:
- what you're building and how it's structured
- what you were working on last session
- why that workaround exists
- what got decided last week
Elephant fixes this. Memory loads automatically at session start. Open Claude Code, keep building.
Token savings. Entries are caveman-compressed — articles and filler stripped. /elephant compact merges old routine entries. A week of project history fits in ~150 tokens instead of a 500-token manual preamble.
Time savings. No more "here's where we left off" setup. No more finding the right file to paste for context. The AI already knows.
Cold start. New machine, new teammate, fresh clone? /elephant takeover reads your last 60 commits and seeds memory in seconds.
Plugin marketplace:
claude plugin marketplace add tonone-ai/elephant
claude plugin install elephant@elephantRestart Claude Code. Done.
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/elephant save <text> |
Save a memory entry |
/elephant save !! <text> |
Save an important entry (never compressed) |
/elephant show |
Print your memory |
/elephant compact |
Merge old entries to save tokens |
/elephant takeover [N] |
Bootstrap from git history (cold start) |
Elephant writes to two files:
.elephant/memory.md(local, project-specific)~/.claude/elephant/memory.md(global, across all projects)
Entries are caveman-compressed (articles and filler dropped) to minimize token usage.
Important entries ([!!]) are never compressed or deleted.
New project? No history? Run /elephant takeover. It reads your last 60 commits and seeds memory automatically. Important commits (feat:, fix:, PRs) get marked [!!].
[!!] 2026-04-12 13:58 : feat: add stripe webhooks
2026-04-12 12:00 : fix null pointer in auth middleware
MIT, see LICENSE
Made by tonone-ai · elephant.tonone.ai