# mnestic-mcp

> Local memory MCP server backed by mnestic — hybrid BM25+vector+graph recall with per-leg attribution and time travel, all on your machine.

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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/mnestic-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Shan Rizvi
- homepage: https://github.com/shuruheel/mnestic
- repository: https://github.com/shuruheel/mnestic
- version: 0.2.0
- license: MPL-2.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agent-memory, cozodb, hybrid-search, mcp, memory, mnestic, model-context-protocol
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mnestic-mcp

### Description (declared)

# mnestic-mcp

A local **memory MCP server** backed by
[mnestic](https://github.com/shuruheel/mnestic) — an embedded graph + vector +
full-text database (a maintained fork of CozoDB). One process, one file, fully
local: your agent's memory never leaves the machine.

> mnestic is a maintained fork of [CozoDB](https://github.com/cozodb/cozo); it is not the official CozoDB. Original design credit belongs to Ziyang Hu and the Cozo Project Authors.

## Install

Add to any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, ...):

```json
{ "command": "uvx", "args": ["mnestic-mcp"] }
```

That's it. The database lives in your platform data dir (override with
`--db PATH` or `MNESTIC_MCP_DB`); embeddings run locally via
[fastembed](https://github.com/qdrant/fastembed) (default
`BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5`, a one-time ~67 MB download that happens in the
background — keyword search works immediately, before the model arrives).
Pre-provision with `uvx mnestic-mcp --download-model`.

## Tools

`store`, `store_batch`, `search`, `find_related`, `list_recent`, `update`,
`delete`, `link`, `recall_as_of`, `stats` — plus the two things no other local
memory server has:

- **`search(explain=true)`** — per-leg attribution: exactly how much the
  keyword (BM25), vector (HNSW), and graph-proximity legs each contributed to
  every result, straight from the engine's fused three-way retrieval. Ask
  your agent *"why did you recall that?"* and get a real answer.
- **`recall_as_of(t)`** — time travel. Updates and deletes are never
  destructive (valid-time history in the engine's bitemporal storage):
  *"what did you know about this before last Tuesday?"* just works.

`search` is keyword-first with an automatic hybrid fallback; `link` builds a
typed, weighted memory graph that both `find_related` (budget-bounded
traversal) and the hybrid graph leg exploit.

**Byte-budgeted output** (0.2.0): every wide-result tool (`search`,
`find_related`, `list_recent`, `recall_as_of`) takes `max_bytes` (default
2…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.vector-search (1, derived)
- knowledge.memory (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mnestic-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T06:23:29.270Z)

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