The uninstall story is as documented as the install one — a layer you can't turn off is a layer you'll eventually resent.
Inside Claude Code — vanilla or years-old setup, same two lines. A plugin install is additive by construction; nothing about your existing configuration is touched.
/plugin marketplace add JimmayVV/keel
/plugin install keel@keelIn a fresh session. It looks at what's already set up, asks only about what's missing — a name for this machine, where your notebook should live, your projects, the recommended safety settings — and runs the commands itself. Safe to run again any time as a check-up.
/keel:setupPrefer doing it by hand? keel setup --memory-home ~/notes,
then claude plugin install keel-memory@keel — the notes engine
needs uv, and a
fresh session picks it up.
No launcher, no wrapper, no alias — you invoke claude exactly as
you would without keel. Everything it contributes loads into a plain session.
keel update pulls the latest whenever you like, and verifies by
commit rather than trusting a version string.
| node | The hooks are plain .mjs with zero
dependencies. Your machines may not have bun, deno, python, or jq — node
is the portable floor. |
| uv + python ≥ 3.12 | Only if you enable the keel-memory
adapter — and uv provisions the interpreter for you, which is why
upstream recommends it. |
| KEEL_GUARD_OFF=1 | Disables the security guard entirely. |
| KEEL_ACTIVITY_OFF=1 | Stops activity capture without uninstalling. |
| KEEL_TRAILERS_OFF=1 | Disables the commit-trailer guard. |
| KEEL_INGEST_OFF=1 | Stops stamping web and app content as untrusted. |
| ~/.config/keel/policy.json | Your policy — adds rules, or
exempts any shipped one via bash.allow /
paths.allow, checked first and winning outright. |
| /plugin uninstall keel@keel | The software, gone. Your work diary, notes, and backups stay — they're yours, and UNINSTALL.md lists every path if you want them gone too. |
bash scripts/install.sh walks it — never runs
sudo, never deletes (the reset is a mv with the undo
printed first), and keel migrate can put back marketplaces and plugins
from the old config at any point after, one at a time or all at once.