codemem MCP Server

io.github.jeang42/codemem

Repository Registry

What is the codemem MCP server?

Shared memory for coding agents: projects, reusable code, sessions and commits across machines

How to install codemem

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

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

Environment / auth

CODEMEM_DATA
Directory for the database and backups
CODEMEM_DB
Path to the SQLite database (overrides CODEMEM_DATA)
CODEMEM_HOST
Address to bind. The server has no authentication; use 127.0.0.1 unless the network is trusted
CODEMEM_PORT
Port for MCP (/mcp) and the web UI. The transport URL assumes 8055
OLLAMA_URL
Ollama base URL for embeddings (semantic search). Without it, search is BM25 only
CODEMEM_EMBED
Set to false to disable embeddings entirely
GIT_ROOT
Directory of bare git repos to read for the commit feed

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "codemem": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "codemem-mcp",
        "serve"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CODEMEM_DATA": "<YOUR_CODEMEM_DATA>",
        "CODEMEM_DB": "<YOUR_CODEMEM_DB>",
        "CODEMEM_HOST": "<YOUR_CODEMEM_HOST>",
        "CODEMEM_PORT": "<YOUR_CODEMEM_PORT>",
        "OLLAMA_URL": "<YOUR_OLLAMA_URL>",
        "CODEMEM_EMBED": "<YOUR_CODEMEM_EMBED>",
        "GIT_ROOT": "<YOUR_GIT_ROOT>"
      }
    }
  }
}