Installation

Cerememory is distributed as source. You build the cerememory binary yourself from the main repository. There are no published binary artifacts — no GitHub Releases, crates.io, Docker registry, PyPI, or npm packages. This keeps the surface area small and ensures every deployment runs a binary you built and verified.

Requirements

• Rust 1.95+ for building the CLI from source (install via rustup). The workspace pins this MSRV in rust-toolchain.toml.
• Protobuf compiler (protoc) for gRPC code generation
• No external database required — Cerememory uses embedded redb for persistent storage
• No external LLM provider required — the default [llm].provider = "none" mode runs entirely without an LLM API key

Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/co-r-e/cerememory.git
cd cerememory
cargo build -p cerememory-cli --release

The binary will be available at:

target/release/cerememory

Subsequent incremental builds are fast. Use cargo build -p cerememory-core to build a specific crate during focused development.

Feature Flags

The CLI ships without any LLM adapter compiled in by default — cerememory-cli default = []. Cerememory's standard mode runs entirely without an external provider, so most operators never enable these. Opt in only when you need automatic embedding, summarization, or relation extraction:

cargo build -p cerememory-cli --release --features llm-claude

Verify Installation

target/release/cerememory --version

You should see output like:

cerememory 0.2.5

Next Steps