Your first 5 minutes with Memeri

Status: ✅ Current · Last reviewed: 2026-06-18

This page takes you from a fresh login to running an AI agent whose work shows up on your Project page and timeline. About 5 minutes of setup, no coding.

This is the how-to. For the why — the mental model behind Memeri, the core loop, and how agents should use context — read the companion "Working With Memeri" guide (its sibling in the Guides nav).

What you'll have at the end

Your AI connected to Memeri (a token + an MCP connection)
An agent running — either in the platform Terminal, or your own Claude Code
Work showing up on your Project page: streams, activity, and the project timeline

Step 1 — Sign in

You're already here. Memeri opens to your workspace. The first thing to do is connect an AI.

Step 2 — Connect your AI

Open the Connect page (sidebar). The fastest path is the one-line installer at the top — copy it, paste it into a terminal, and it wires up everything (your token, the local console, telemetry).

Under the hood this gives your AI two things:

A token — how your AI proves to Memeri that it's you.
An MCP connection — how your AI reads and writes your Memeri data (jobs, updates, decisions, intelligence).

If you'd rather wire a specific client by hand, see the Connect Your AI guides for Claude Code and ChatGPT.

Step 3 — Run an agent

You have two ways to put an AI to work:

Use the platform Terminal. Open the Terminal page and hit the green New button. A real AI agent (Claude Code or Codex) spins up right in the browser, backed by a small local console daemon. See Using Memeri → The Terminal for the full tour.
Use your own Claude Code. Keep working in your own terminal as usual. Once connected, its activity forwards to Memeri automatically.

Either way, conversations persist — you can run an agent locally and pick it back up in the browser pane later.

Step 4 — Watch work flow into your Project page

Open the Project page — your home base for a project. As your agent works, you'll see:

Project Understanding — a living snapshot of what the project is and what matters in it
Streams — the work currently in flight
Recent activity and the project timeline filling in as edits, commits, and updates land

That's the loop: connect → run an agent → its work becomes part of your project's shared, durable picture.

How work is organised

Memeri structures work as Streams → Jobs → Todos, optionally grouped by Initiatives:

Streams — the work in flight (the underlying/formal term is "Workflow")
Jobs — specific executable pieces of work
Todos — small tasks within a job
Initiatives — an optional way to group related streams/jobs under a larger goal

See Using Memeri → Streams, Initiatives, Jobs & Todos for the full picture.