# vault-mcp

> Memory Vault MCP Server — Markdown + SQLite knowledge store with bidirectional [[wikilinks]] for AI agents

Record `vault-mcp-2` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/vault-mcp-2/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/vault-mcp-2
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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/vault-mcp-2/claim

## Declared
- version: 0.1.1
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:vault-mcp

### Description (declared)

# vault-mcp

Markdown + SQLite knowledge store with bidirectional `[[wikilinks]]`, exposed as an MCP server. Designed for AI agents to maintain an interconnected knowledge base.

## Installation

```bash
uvx vault-mcp                           # run directly without install
pip install vault-mcp                   # core (keyword search only)
pip install "vault-mcp[semantic]"       # + embedding-based semantic search
```

## Running the MCP Server

```bash
# Start with default settings (vault in ./vault)
vault-mcp

# Custom vault directory
VAULT_DIR=/path/to/notes vault-mcp

# With semantic search enabled
VAULT_DIR=./vault VAULT_EMBEDDING_MODEL=jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano vault-mcp
```

### Environment Variables

| Variable | Default | Description |
|----------|---------|-------------|
| `VAULT_DIR` | `./vault` | Root directory for markdown files |
| `VAULT_EMBEDDING_MODEL` | *(none)* | Sentence-transformers model name. Enables semantic search when set |

## Client Configuration

### Claude Code

```bash
claude mcp add vault -- vault-mcp
```

Or `.mcp.json`:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vault": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "vault-mcp",
      "env": { "VAULT_DIR": "./vault" }
    }
  }
}
```

### Cursor / Windsurf / Other MCP Clients

Add to your MCP settings:

```json
{
  "vault": {
    "command": "vault-mcp",
    "env": { "VAULT_DIR": "./vault" }
  }
}
```

### Python Library (no MCP)

```python
from vault_mcp import MarkdownVault, create_vault_tools

vault = MarkdownVault("./my-vault")
vault.write("skill/debugging", {"type": "skill", "confidence": "pattern"}, "# Debugging\n\n...")

# Or get all 11 tools as a dict of callables
tools = create_vault_tools(vault)
result = tools["vault_search"](query="debugging", mode="keyword")
```

## Note Format

Each note is a `.md` file with YAML frontmatter, organized in type-based folders:

```
vault/
  skill/
    timeout-diagnosis.md
  concept/
    connection-pooling.md
  episodic/
    2024-01-15-incid…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- security.secrets (1, derived)
- data.vector-search (0.894, derived)
- dev.filesystem (0.802, derived)
- data.database (0.768, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/vault-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T15:23:08.846Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/vault-mcp-2/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/vault-mcp-2 · ARD identifier urn:air::server:vault-mcp-2