docs: Update API documentation and configuration settings

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• Updated the API endpoint count in CLAUDE.md from 13 to ~21.
• Changed consolidation interval settings in CLAUDE.md to default values for better clarity.
• Revised installation instructions in INSTALLATION.md to reflect the new Remote MCP server terminology.
• Enhanced README.md with updated project description and visual elements.
• Clarified API authentication methods in API.md.
• Renamed MCP server documentation to reflect the new Remote MCP terminology.
• Adjusted testing documentation to specify vector dimensions for Qdrant.

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📝 Walkthrough

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation

  • Updated API auth to require tokens for most endpoints; /health remains public.
  • Replaced SSE sidecar wording with Remote MCP across README, deployment, and docs; refined testing/benchmark language.
  • Added memory metadata note (last_accessed) and clarified embedding defaults.

• Configuration

  • Consolidation interval settings renamed and redefaulted toward much longer cycles (daily/weekly/monthly).
  • Memory forgetting disabled by default.

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Walkthrough

API and configuration defaults adjusted: consolidation intervals lengthened (decay → 1 day, creative → 1 week, cluster → 1 month, forget → disabled). API endpoint counts updated to reflect new automem/api surface (+legacy routes). MCP docs and deployment references replaced "SSE sidecar" with "Remote MCP"; API auth clarified for all endpoints except /health.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Configuration & API surface CLAUDE.md	Consolidation env vars renamed/retargeted and default values changed (decay 3600→86400, creative 3600→604800, cluster 21600→2592000, forget 86400→0/disabled). API endpoint description updated to reflect automem/api endpoints plus legacy app.py routes.
Deployment & MCP docs INSTALLATION.md, docs/MCP_SSE.md, docs/RAILWAY_DEPLOYMENT.md, README.md	Replaced references to "MCP SSE sidecar"/"MCP Server Bridge" with "Remote MCP"; adjusted deployment wording. INSTALLATION.md notes embedding auto-generation defaults and memory.metadata.last_accessed. Railway checklist updated to reference Remote MCP.
API authentication docs docs/API.md	Authentication tightened: all endpoints except /health require authentication via Bearer Authorization, X-API-Key, or ?api_key=. Admin endpoints still require X-Admin-Token.
Documentation restructuring & UI copy README.md	README restructured: banner image, renamed sections (e.g., "Core Capabilities", "Research Foundation"), terminology harmonized to "Remote MCP" and "graph-vector", updated community/resource links, and removed dated update block.
Testing & benchmarks docs/TESTING.md	Benchmark presentation streamlined; default vector dimensionality note updated (3072d default, 768d for small models); headings and comparison phrasing standardized; AutoMem advantages expanded.

Sequence Diagram(s)

(omitted — changes are primarily configuration and documentation updates, not new multi-component control flow)

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~12 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• docs: Update Railway deployment docs and improve README #39 — overlapping documentation changes replacing SSE sidecar wording with Remote MCP and updates to README/docs.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: documentation updates to API documentation and configuration settings across multiple files.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is directly related to the changeset, listing specific documentation updates across multiple files (CLAUDE.md, INSTALLATION.md, README.md, API.md, MCP server docs, TESTING.md).
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

🤖 Fix all issues with AI agents

In `@CLAUDE.md`:
- Line 45: Update the endpoint count text in CLAUDE.md where it says "The API
(`app.py`) provides ~21 endpoints:" to reflect the current routes: change "~21"
to "28" to match the automem/api module breakdown (admin: 2, memory: 10, recall:
4, graph: 5, health: 1, enrichment: 2, consolidation: 2, stream: 2); also add a
short note mentioning that 12 legacy routes remain in app.py for a combined
total of 40 if both sets are active, so readers understand the distinction
between current automem/api routes and legacy routes.

In `@README.md`:
- Around line 17-18: The README currently cites an unsourced "OpenAI baseline
(39%)" comparison; either remove that phrase from README.md (search for the
literal "OpenAI baseline (39%)" and the sentence containing it) or add a
documented source in docs/TESTING.md: create a section or subsection that
records the evaluation procedure, dataset, metric and citation that produced the
39% OpenAI result, and update the README to link to that TESTING.md section;
ensure the README and docs use the exact phrasing "OpenAI baseline (39%)" so the
references stay consistent.

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

README.md (1)

289-289: Minor wording polish for readability.

“very old” is a bit vague; consider “older” or “long-idle” for smoother phrasing.

✏️ Suggested tweak

-| **Forget**   | Disabled  | Archives low-relevance (<0.2), deletes very old (<0.05) when enabled |
+| **Forget**   | Disabled  | Archives low-relevance (<0.2), deletes older (<0.05) when enabled |

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Actionable comments posted: 1

🤖 Fix all issues with AI agents

In `@README.md`:
- Around line 462-466: Replace the bare URL
"https://www.npmjs.com/package/@verygoodplugins/mcp-automem" with a markdown
link label (e.g., [`@verygoodplugins/mcp-automem`]) so the Resources section uses
a proper markdown link instead of a raw URL; update the "NPM bridge (local):"
line accordingly to satisfy markdownlint MD034 and improve readability.