RAWThink MCP Server

Name: RAWThink MCP Server
Author: io.github.ygtalp

io.github.ygtalp/rawthink-mcp

Repository Registry

What is the RAWThink MCP server?

Persistent memory for AI thinking partnerships: hybrid search and a temporal knowledge graph.

How to install RAWThink

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

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

Environment / auth

RAWTHINK_VAULT
Path to the vault directory holding sessions, qnotes and the knowledge graph.
MEMORY_FILE_PATH
Path to memory.jsonl. Defaults to <vault>/memory.jsonl.
QDRANT_URL
Qdrant server URL.
QDRANT_PATH
Set to a directory to run Qdrant embedded instead of via Docker.
OLLAMA_URL
Ollama server URL. Without it, retrieval degrades to sparse-only.
OLLAMA_MODEL
Embedding model. Changing it requires a full reindex.
RAWTHINK_TOOL_PROFILE
Which tools to expose: recall (4, read-only), record (5, the write path), or full (17).
RAWTHINK_BM25_STATE
Path to the BM25 state file. Defaults to <vault>/.bm25_state.json.
RAWTHINK_LOG_LEVEL
Log level for diagnostics on stderr.

Claude Desktop

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rawthink-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "rawthink-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "RAWTHINK_VAULT": "<YOUR_RAWTHINK_VAULT>",
        "MEMORY_FILE_PATH": "<YOUR_MEMORY_FILE_PATH>",
        "QDRANT_URL": "<YOUR_QDRANT_URL>",
        "QDRANT_PATH": "<YOUR_QDRANT_PATH>",
        "OLLAMA_URL": "<YOUR_OLLAMA_URL>",
        "OLLAMA_MODEL": "<YOUR_OLLAMA_MODEL>",
        "RAWTHINK_TOOL_PROFILE": "<YOUR_RAWTHINK_TOOL_PROFILE>",
        "RAWTHINK_BM25_STATE": "<YOUR_RAWTHINK_BM25_STATE>",
        "RAWTHINK_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_RAWTHINK_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rawthink-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "rawthink-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "RAWTHINK_VAULT": "<YOUR_RAWTHINK_VAULT>",
        "MEMORY_FILE_PATH": "<YOUR_MEMORY_FILE_PATH>",
        "QDRANT_URL": "<YOUR_QDRANT_URL>",
        "QDRANT_PATH": "<YOUR_QDRANT_PATH>",
        "OLLAMA_URL": "<YOUR_OLLAMA_URL>",
        "OLLAMA_MODEL": "<YOUR_OLLAMA_MODEL>",
        "RAWTHINK_TOOL_PROFILE": "<YOUR_RAWTHINK_TOOL_PROFILE>",
        "RAWTHINK_BM25_STATE": "<YOUR_RAWTHINK_BM25_STATE>",
        "RAWTHINK_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_RAWTHINK_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rawthink-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "rawthink-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "RAWTHINK_VAULT": "<YOUR_RAWTHINK_VAULT>",
        "MEMORY_FILE_PATH": "<YOUR_MEMORY_FILE_PATH>",
        "QDRANT_URL": "<YOUR_QDRANT_URL>",
        "QDRANT_PATH": "<YOUR_QDRANT_PATH>",
        "OLLAMA_URL": "<YOUR_OLLAMA_URL>",
        "OLLAMA_MODEL": "<YOUR_OLLAMA_MODEL>",
        "RAWTHINK_TOOL_PROFILE": "<YOUR_RAWTHINK_TOOL_PROFILE>",
        "RAWTHINK_BM25_STATE": "<YOUR_RAWTHINK_BM25_STATE>",
        "RAWTHINK_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_RAWTHINK_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "rawthink-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "rawthink-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "RAWTHINK_VAULT": "<YOUR_RAWTHINK_VAULT>",
        "MEMORY_FILE_PATH": "<YOUR_MEMORY_FILE_PATH>",
        "QDRANT_URL": "<YOUR_QDRANT_URL>",
        "QDRANT_PATH": "<YOUR_QDRANT_PATH>",
        "OLLAMA_URL": "<YOUR_OLLAMA_URL>",
        "OLLAMA_MODEL": "<YOUR_OLLAMA_MODEL>",
        "RAWTHINK_TOOL_PROFILE": "<YOUR_RAWTHINK_TOOL_PROFILE>",
        "RAWTHINK_BM25_STATE": "<YOUR_RAWTHINK_BM25_STATE>",
        "RAWTHINK_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_RAWTHINK_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add rawthink-mcp --env RAWTHINK_VAULT=<YOUR_RAWTHINK_VAULT> --env MEMORY_FILE_PATH=<YOUR_MEMORY_FILE_PATH> --env QDRANT_URL=<YOUR_QDRANT_URL> --env QDRANT_PATH=<YOUR_QDRANT_PATH> --env OLLAMA_URL=<YOUR_OLLAMA_URL> --env OLLAMA_MODEL=<YOUR_OLLAMA_MODEL> --env RAWTHINK_TOOL_PROFILE=<YOUR_RAWTHINK_TOOL_PROFILE> --env RAWTHINK_BM25_STATE=<YOUR_RAWTHINK_BM25_STATE> --env RAWTHINK_LOG_LEVEL=<YOUR_RAWTHINK_LOG_LEVEL> -- uvx rawthink-mcp