mcp-memory CLAUDE.md

mcp-memory CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for coding agents from oneKn8/mcp-memory. It costs 349 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for mcp-memory, a Python server that lets an agent save information and find it later by meaning. It stores memories locally, with separate collections for each project scope.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing mcp-memory: install its development dependencies, run tests, lint and format the code, check types, start the server, or understand its remember, recall, forget, and listing tools.
Why use it?
It gives contributors the commands, file layout, and design details needed to build, test, check, and run the project consistently.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/onekn8/mcp-memory/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oneKn8/mcp-memory

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Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-memory CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

mcp-memory

MCP server for persistent agent memory with semantic search.

Language

Python (3.11+)

Build & Run Commands

  • Install: pip install -e ".[dev]"
  • Test: pytest
  • Lint: ruff check .
  • Format: ruff format .
  • Type check: mypy mcp_memory
  • Run: python -m mcp_memory.server

Project Structure

  • mcp_memory/server.py - FastMCP server with tool definitions
  • mcp_memory/storage.py - ChromaDB wrapper (MemoryStore class)
  • mcp_memory/config.py - Environment variable configuration
  • mcp_memory/models.py - Data models (Memory, RecallResult)
  • tests/ - pytest tests

Architecture

  • FastMCP 3.0 for MCP protocol (stdio transport)
  • ChromaDB PersistentClient for vector storage (cosine similarity)
  • One ChromaDB collection per project scope
  • Default embedding model: all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (via sentence-transformers, auto-downloaded)
  • Data stored at ~/.mcp-memory/ (configurable via MCP_MEMORY_DATA_DIR)

MCP Tools

  • remember - Store a memory with content, tags, project, importance
  • recall - Semantic search across stored memories
  • forget - Delete memories by ID, project, or tags
  • list_memories - Browse memories with pagination and stats

Conventions

  • All tools return formatted strings
  • Tags stored as comma-separated strings in ChromaDB metadata
  • Per-project isolation via separate ChromaDB collections
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 46 lines · 349 tokens per session scan A 453509efc775

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mcp-memory CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository oneKn8/mcp-memory (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 349 tokens to every session, about $0.0017 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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