Claude Code starts each session with a blank mind. Hydrate captures what was built, decided, and named - then quietly injects it into the next session. No prompt engineering. No screenshots of previous chats. Just context that works.
curl -fsSL gethydrate.dev/install | shApple Silicon and Intel both supported - the installer picks the right binary.
curl -fsSL gethydrate.dev/install | shamd64 and arm64 both supported - the installer picks the right binary.
Native Windows binaries ship post-beta. For now, install via WSL2 - the installer detects Linux inside WSL and works exactly as on a regular Linux box.
# Inside WSL2 (Ubuntu, Debian, etc.):
curl -fsSL gethydrate.dev/install | sh
No WSL?
Install WSL2 in 60 seconds →
Or grab the Linux tarball manually:
latest release →
Hydrate saves tokens. What that saving becomes for you depends on scale.
You already pay Anthropic for Claude Max. Hydrate makes that subscription go further: fewer tokens burned on context rediscovery means more tokens left for real work before you hit the weekly cap. The dashboard shows this as Runway - extra days of coding this week. For a $20/month Max user, that typically works out at 2 to 4 extra productive days per month.
One senior developer pins the architecture on Opus. Everyone else runs
Haiku with that canon written into CLAUDE.md via
hydrate sync. Our benchmarks measured this: Haiku + canon
resists bad architectural suggestions the way Opus does natively, at
about a tenth of the Opus cost. Architecture
propagates to the team via your git repo. No central service.
Coding traffic is dominated by context rediscovery. For a 50-developer team running heavy Claude usage, displaced tokens translate to serious money at the API meter and serious carbon at the provider's data centre. Our projection: 30 to 50% API spend reduction on code-gen workloads with a properly deployed memory layer. Self-host, SSO, SOC 2, air-gap if you need it. Nothing leaves your network.
From the 2026-04-17 benchmark run. $67 of real API spend. Every number is reproducible.
Models don't get smarter with Hydrate. They get context. That's usually enough.
$ claude "add a dark mode toggle"
Haiku: What should the default
colour scheme be?
Haiku: What do you mean by
"toggle" - a button? switch?
Haiku: Which pages should be
affected?
[ nothing written ]$ claude "add a dark mode toggle"
Haiku: edits src/styles/globals.css
Haiku: edits src/components/Nav.tsx
Haiku: Done. Toggle wired to
prefers-color-scheme. Persists in
localStorage. Icon updates on
change.Hydrate isn't a uniform speed-up. Each model has a different failure mode without context - refusal, drift, re-exploration, ceiling-hitting - and Hydrate removes all four. Cost reduction is the measurable consequence; reliability is the primary change.
Hydrate installs two Claude Code hooks - UserPromptSubmit and Stop.
They're invisible to you. They capture each session's prompt, decisions, and output.
Between sessions, an extractor pulls concrete facts - "pricing tiers are Free/Pro/Team", "accent colour is #89b4fa" - and stores them scoped to your project.
A local dashboard at localhost:8089/dashboard shows your spend, cache ratio,
and facts per project. Nothing ever leaves your machine - Free, Pro, or Team.
Hydrate reads Claude Code's local transcripts and adds them up. These are the real numbers for the work that produced gethydrate.dev - no rounding, no cherry-picking.
Priced at Sonnet rates ($3/$15/$0.30/$3.75 per MTok). Snapshot: 2026-04-18. Raw JSON: /usage.json.
Register during beta - whichever edition you pick - and your Pro rate is locked at $5/mo forever, even if retail launches higher. How this works →
Up to 2 active projects, full hooks + dashboard. No account. Registering during beta also locks your future $5/mo Pro rate.
Install + lock rate$9/mo retail (not yet guaranteed) · free during beta + 1 month after launch
Unlimited active projects plus per-project backup / restore. Free for everyone during beta and for 30 days after v1 launches; $5/mo only when you choose to subscribe.
See Pro details →Shared project memory across teammates. Indicative launch rate; Team is not part of the beta lock.
Join Team waitlist →Enterprise with SSO, self-host, org-scoped facts - contact sales.
No account. No telemetry. The Free tier never touches the network.
curl -fsSL gethydrate.dev/install | shApple Silicon and Intel both supported - the installer picks the right binary.
curl -fsSL gethydrate.dev/install | shamd64 and arm64 both supported - the installer picks the right binary.
Native Windows binaries ship post-beta. For now, install via WSL2 - the installer detects Linux inside WSL and works exactly as on a regular Linux box.
# Inside WSL2 (Ubuntu, Debian, etc.):
curl -fsSL gethydrate.dev/install | sh
No WSL?
Install WSL2 in 60 seconds →
Or grab the Linux tarball manually:
latest release →