Five pillars of memory portability.
Hydrate has five mechanisms covering every scenario where memory loss or coordination would otherwise interrupt your work: cold start, warm return, mid-session overflow, cross-vendor switch, and running multiple Claude Code sessions in parallel.
| Mechanism | Scenario | What it solves |
|---|---|---|
| Hydration packs | New machine, new collaborator, open-source projects | Cold start: you have nothing |
| Session resume | Returning to past work | Warm start: you have history |
Distillation /hydrate-distill | Mid-session context window filling | In-flight: you have too much |
| MCP integration | Any agent runtime | Cross-vendor: use a different tool |
Cross-pane orchestration hydrate orchestrator | Multiple Claude Code sessions running in parallel | Coordination: one canon, many panes, no double-dispatch |