Memory Vault MCP Server

Name: Memory Vault MCP Server
Author: io.github.MihaiBuilds

io.github.MihaiBuilds/memory-vault

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What is the Memory Vault MCP server?

Local-first AI memory layer with hybrid search. Postgres + pgvector. Self-hosted, MIT.

How to install Memory Vault

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

DB_HOST
required
Hostname of the Postgres+pgvector instance Memory Vault connects to (e.g. 'host.docker.internal' when Postgres runs on the host, 'localhost' when running natively, or the service name when both run in compose)
DB_PORT
required
Postgres port
DB_NAME
required
Postgres database name
DB_USER
required
Postgres user with read/write access to the memory vault database
DB_PASSWORD
required
secret
Postgres password for DB_USER

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memory-vault": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/mihaibuilds/memory-vault-mcp:1.0.6"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DB_HOST": "<YOUR_DB_HOST>",
        "DB_PORT": "<YOUR_DB_PORT>",
        "DB_NAME": "<YOUR_DB_NAME>",
        "DB_USER": "<YOUR_DB_USER>",
        "DB_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_DB_PASSWORD>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memory-vault": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/mihaibuilds/memory-vault-mcp:1.0.6"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DB_HOST": "<YOUR_DB_HOST>",
        "DB_PORT": "<YOUR_DB_PORT>",
        "DB_NAME": "<YOUR_DB_NAME>",
        "DB_USER": "<YOUR_DB_USER>",
        "DB_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_DB_PASSWORD>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memory-vault": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/mihaibuilds/memory-vault-mcp:1.0.6"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DB_HOST": "<YOUR_DB_HOST>",
        "DB_PORT": "<YOUR_DB_PORT>",
        "DB_NAME": "<YOUR_DB_NAME>",
        "DB_USER": "<YOUR_DB_USER>",
        "DB_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_DB_PASSWORD>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "memory-vault": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/mihaibuilds/memory-vault-mcp:1.0.6"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DB_HOST": "<YOUR_DB_HOST>",
        "DB_PORT": "<YOUR_DB_PORT>",
        "DB_NAME": "<YOUR_DB_NAME>",
        "DB_USER": "<YOUR_DB_USER>",
        "DB_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_DB_PASSWORD>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add memory-vault --env DB_HOST=<YOUR_DB_HOST> --env DB_PORT=<YOUR_DB_PORT> --env DB_NAME=<YOUR_DB_NAME> --env DB_USER=<YOUR_DB_USER> --env DB_PASSWORD=<YOUR_DB_PASSWORD> -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/mihaibuilds/memory-vault-mcp:1.0.6