# halflife-mcp

> Local long-term memory for AI agents as an MCP server: procedural, preference, fact, episodic and trace memories in Markdown files + a SQLite index (keyword, optional vector, graph).

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/halflife-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/Oleg67/halflife-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/Oleg67/halflife-mcp
- version: 0.1.3
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:halflife-mcp

### Description (declared)

# halflife-mcp

Local long-term memory for AI agents, served over MCP. It runs on your own laptop: no account,
no cloud service, no telemetry. Works with any MCP client that can launch a stdio server, such as
Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Zed or VS Code.

The agent gets five kinds of memory:

| Kind | Holds | Fades (half-life) |
|---|---|---|
| `preference` | how you like things done ("use uv, not pip") | 180 days |
| `procedural` | workflows that worked ("release = tag, then `make release`") | 365 days |
| `fact` | durable facts not in the code or docs | 180 days |
| `episodic` | what happened in a past task: goal, decisions, open items | 30 days |
| `trace` | short-lived log of files/commands, for resuming work | 7 days, deleted after 30 |

Memories you use get reinforced and stay. Unused ones fade and are archived: moved, never
silently deleted. Inferred memories stay *provisional* (hidden) until confirmed. A correction
*supersedes* the old memory instead of contradicting it.

## Install

You need [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/). Then add the server to your client.

**Claude Code**

```bash
claude mcp add memory --scope user -- uvx halflife-mcp
```

**Claude Desktop** (Settings → Developer → Edit Config → `claude_desktop_config.json`), Cursor
(`~/.cursor/mcp.json`) and most other clients use the same shape:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memory": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["halflife-mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```

If the client can't find `uvx`, put its absolute path in `command` (`which uvx`).

### Local HTTP mode

For clients that connect by URL instead of launching a command, run the server yourself:

```bash
uvx halflife-mcp serve --http  # http://127.0.0.1:8765/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http memory http://127.0.0.1:8765/mcp  # e.g. Claude Code
```

There is no authentication, so it listens on loopback only: other machines can't reach it.
Requests whose `Host` or `Origin` isn't local are rejected, which stops a web page from
talking to i…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- knowledge.memory (0.848, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/halflife-mcp/ (first seen 2026-10-18T16:28:55.986Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/halflife-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/halflife-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:halflife-mcp