Question 1

What is Claude Code?

Accepted Answer

Claude Code is Anthropic's official CLI tool for AI-assisted software development. It allows developers to interact with Claude directly from the terminal to write, edit, and debug code.

Question 2

What is momentum?

Accepted Answer

momentum is a free, open-source Claude Code plugin for fast context recovery. It takes snapshots of your work and can restore them in under 5 milliseconds after using /clear.

Question 3

What is memory-mcp?

Accepted Answer

memory-mcp is a free, open-source MCP server that gives Claude persistent memory across sessions. It uses SQLite with FTS5 full-text search for efficient storage and retrieval.

Question 4

Are these tools free?

Accepted Answer

Yes, all tools (momentum, memory-mcp, and the web tools at substratia.io/tools) are completely free and open source under the MIT license.

Question 5

How do I get started?

Accepted Answer

Visit substratia.io/start-here for a beginner-friendly guide, or check out the cheat sheet at substratia.io/tools/cheat-sheet for a quick reference.

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What is Claude Code?

What is Substratia?

Are these tools free?

What is momentum?

What is memory-mcp?

What's the difference between momentum and memory-mcp?

Do I need both momentum and memory-mcp?

Where is my data stored?

What is a context window?

What is compaction?

What is CLAUDE.md?

What is MCP?

Why SQLite instead of a vector database?

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