Heartwood Memory — governed memory for AI agents MCP Server

Name: Heartwood Memory — governed memory for AI agents MCP Server
Author: io.github.jermayne36

io.github.jermayne36/heartwood-memory

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What is the Heartwood Memory — governed memory for AI agents MCP server?

Heartwood Memory — governed AI agent memory; signed provenance. BUSL-1.1; not OSI open source.

How to install Heartwood Memory — governed memory for AI agents

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

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

Environment / auth

HEARTWOOD_DB_PATH
required
Path to the local Heartwood SQLite database.
HEARTWOOD_TENANT
Tenant identifier used to isolate memories.
HEARTWOOD_MCP_ALLOWED_TOOLS
Comma-separated MCP tool allowlist; the default is read-only.

Claude Desktop

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "heartwood-memory": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "heartwood-memory"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HEARTWOOD_DB_PATH": "<YOUR_HEARTWOOD_DB_PATH>",
        "HEARTWOOD_TENANT": "<YOUR_HEARTWOOD_TENANT>",
        "HEARTWOOD_MCP_ALLOWED_TOOLS": "<YOUR_HEARTWOOD_MCP_ALLOWED_TOOLS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "heartwood-memory": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "heartwood-memory"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HEARTWOOD_DB_PATH": "<YOUR_HEARTWOOD_DB_PATH>",
        "HEARTWOOD_TENANT": "<YOUR_HEARTWOOD_TENANT>",
        "HEARTWOOD_MCP_ALLOWED_TOOLS": "<YOUR_HEARTWOOD_MCP_ALLOWED_TOOLS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "heartwood-memory": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "heartwood-memory"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HEARTWOOD_DB_PATH": "<YOUR_HEARTWOOD_DB_PATH>",
        "HEARTWOOD_TENANT": "<YOUR_HEARTWOOD_TENANT>",
        "HEARTWOOD_MCP_ALLOWED_TOOLS": "<YOUR_HEARTWOOD_MCP_ALLOWED_TOOLS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "heartwood-memory": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "heartwood-memory"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HEARTWOOD_DB_PATH": "<YOUR_HEARTWOOD_DB_PATH>",
        "HEARTWOOD_TENANT": "<YOUR_HEARTWOOD_TENANT>",
        "HEARTWOOD_MCP_ALLOWED_TOOLS": "<YOUR_HEARTWOOD_MCP_ALLOWED_TOOLS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add heartwood-memory --env HEARTWOOD_DB_PATH=<YOUR_HEARTWOOD_DB_PATH> --env HEARTWOOD_TENANT=<YOUR_HEARTWOOD_TENANT> --env HEARTWOOD_MCP_ALLOWED_TOOLS=<YOUR_HEARTWOOD_MCP_ALLOWED_TOOLS> -- uvx heartwood-memory