# mcp-lance-db

> mcp-lance-db

Record `mcp-lance-db` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-lance-db/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-lance-db
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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/mcp-lance-db/claim

## Declared
- version: 0.1.6
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-lance-db

### Description (declared)

# mcp-lance-db: A LanceDB MCP server

> The [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction) is an open protocol that enables seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools. Whether you're building an AI-powered IDE, enhancing a chat interface, or creating custom AI workflows, MCP provides a standardized way to connect LLMs with the context they need.

This repository is an example of how to create a MCP server for [LanceDB](https://lancedb.com/), an embedded vector database.

## Overview

A basic Model Context Protocol server for storing and retrieving memories in the LanceDB vector database.
It acts as a semantic memory layer that allows storing text with vector embeddings for later retrieval.

## Components

### Tools

The server implements two tools:
- add-memory: Adds a new memory to the vector database
  - Takes "content" as a required string argument
  - Stores the text with vector embeddings for later retrieval
  
- search-memories: Retrieves semantically similar memories
  - Takes "query" as a required string argument
  - Optional "limit" parameter to control number of results (default: 5)
  - Returns memories ranked by semantic similarity to the query
  - Updates server state and notifies clients of resource changes

## Configuration

The server uses the following configuration:
- Database path: "./lancedb"
- Collection name: "memories"
- Embedding provider: "sentence-transformers"
- Model: "BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5"
- Device: "cpu"
- Similarity threshold: 0.7 (upper bound for distance range)

## Quickstart

#### Claude Desktop

On MacOS: `~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`
On Windows: `%APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`

```
{
  "lancedb": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": [
      "mcp-lance-db"
    ]
  }
}
```

## Development

### Building and Publishing

To prepare the package for distribution:

1. Sync dependencies and update lockfile:
```bash
uv sy…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.package-management (0.859, derived)
- data.vector-search (0.825, derived)
- data.database (0.791, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-lance-db/ (first seen 2026-09-10T02:23:15.858Z)

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