mcp-external-memory

mcp-external-memory is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from daedalus/mcp-external-memory. It costs 0 tokens per session (196 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A persistent memory service that stores text and lets an agent find it later by meaning, not only exact words.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to save and search notes, organize knowledge with namespaces and tags, and build searchable knowledge bases.
Why use it?
It prevents useful information from being lost between sessions and helps retrieve relevant past details without rereading everything.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/daedalus/mcp-external-memory/mcp-external-memory
Any agent
npx skills add daedalus/mcp-external-memory --skill mcp-external-memory
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daedalus/mcp-external-memory

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 196 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00196
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00098
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00020

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1691d1b556a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-external-memory 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.

SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

MCP External Memory

MCP server that gives LLMs persistent, searchable semantic memory.

When to use this skill

Use this skill when you need to:

  • Store information that persists across sessions
  • Search semantic memories
  • Organize information with namespaces and tags
  • Build knowledge bases

Tools

  • memory_store - Persist text with optional namespace/tags
  • memory_search - Semantic search over all memories
  • memory_get - Retrieve a memory by ID
  • memory_delete - Delete a memory by ID
  • memory_list - List memories with filters
  • memory_stats - Count memories, namespaces
  • memory_update - Update an existing memory

Embedding Backends

  • TF-IDF (default, pure Python)
  • OpenAI (text-embedding-3-small)
  • Ollama (local embeddings)

Install

pip install mcp-external-memory
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 · 33 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1691d1b556a5

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mcp-external-memory is a skill published in the GitHub repository daedalus/mcp-external-memory (0 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 196 tokens. 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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