MCP Server

Local Memory MCP Server

Name: Local Memory MCP Server
Author: io.github.studiomeyer-io

io.github.studiomeyer-io/local-memory-mcp

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What is the Local Memory MCP server?

Persistent local AI memory. SQLite + FTS5 + vector search, knowledge graph. No cloud, no API keys.

How to install Local Memory

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

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

Environment / auth

MEMORY_DB_PATH
Custom path for the SQLite database file
MEMORY_EMBED_DISABLED
Disable the local embedding pipeline (forces FTS5-only search). Useful in restricted networks where the model can't be downloaded.
MEMORY_EMBED_MODEL
Override the embedding model id (defaults to Xenova/multilingual-e5-small).
MEMORY_EMBED_CACHE_DIR
Override the Transformers.js cache directory (defaults to the OS data dir).

Claude Desktop

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "local-memory-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@studiomeyer/local-memory-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MEMORY_DB_PATH": "<YOUR_MEMORY_DB_PATH>",
        "MEMORY_EMBED_DISABLED": "<YOUR_MEMORY_EMBED_DISABLED>",
        "MEMORY_EMBED_MODEL": "<YOUR_MEMORY_EMBED_MODEL>",
        "MEMORY_EMBED_CACHE_DIR": "<YOUR_MEMORY_EMBED_CACHE_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "local-memory-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@studiomeyer/local-memory-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MEMORY_DB_PATH": "<YOUR_MEMORY_DB_PATH>",
        "MEMORY_EMBED_DISABLED": "<YOUR_MEMORY_EMBED_DISABLED>",
        "MEMORY_EMBED_MODEL": "<YOUR_MEMORY_EMBED_MODEL>",
        "MEMORY_EMBED_CACHE_DIR": "<YOUR_MEMORY_EMBED_CACHE_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "local-memory-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@studiomeyer/local-memory-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MEMORY_DB_PATH": "<YOUR_MEMORY_DB_PATH>",
        "MEMORY_EMBED_DISABLED": "<YOUR_MEMORY_EMBED_DISABLED>",
        "MEMORY_EMBED_MODEL": "<YOUR_MEMORY_EMBED_MODEL>",
        "MEMORY_EMBED_CACHE_DIR": "<YOUR_MEMORY_EMBED_CACHE_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "local-memory-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@studiomeyer/local-memory-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MEMORY_DB_PATH": "<YOUR_MEMORY_DB_PATH>",
        "MEMORY_EMBED_DISABLED": "<YOUR_MEMORY_EMBED_DISABLED>",
        "MEMORY_EMBED_MODEL": "<YOUR_MEMORY_EMBED_MODEL>",
        "MEMORY_EMBED_CACHE_DIR": "<YOUR_MEMORY_EMBED_CACHE_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add local-memory-mcp --env MEMORY_DB_PATH=<YOUR_MEMORY_DB_PATH> --env MEMORY_EMBED_DISABLED=<YOUR_MEMORY_EMBED_DISABLED> --env MEMORY_EMBED_MODEL=<YOUR_MEMORY_EMBED_MODEL> --env MEMORY_EMBED_CACHE_DIR=<YOUR_MEMORY_EMBED_CACHE_DIR> -- npx -y @studiomeyer/local-memory-mcp