I gave Claude a memory of everything I browse — here's the architecture (opens in new tab)

Claude can read my files, my terminal, even my screen. But it had no idea what I read in my browser yesterday. That gap bugged me enough to build BraveMCP: a local-first "second brain" that gives Claude Desktop access to my browsing history, bookmarks, highlights, and notes through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Everything stays on my machine. No cloud, no tracking. This is the technical write-up: the architecture, the one constraint that shaped the whole design, and the bugs that cost me ...