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Honcho

Honcho is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. Memory that reasons: continual learning for stateful agents. It has 7,776 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and runs as a remote server at https://mcp.honcho.dev.

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Install Honcho

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Claude Desktop

Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector
URL: https://mcp.honcho.dev

Remote servers are added as a custom connector, not in claude_desktop_config.json.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http honcho "https://mcp.honcho.dev"

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "honcho": {
      "url": "https://mcp.honcho.dev"
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "honcho": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.honcho.dev"
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About Honcho

Honcho is memory infrastructure for building stateful agents that understand changing people, agents, groups, projects, and ideas over time.

  • ai
  • llm
  • memory
  • agent-memory
  • ai-agents
  • ai-memory
  • context-engineering
  • continual-learning
  • agentic-rag
  • dsh-plugin

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FAQ

Honcho FAQ

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How do I install the Honcho MCP server?

It is a remote MCP server at https://mcp.honcho.dev. Add it with claude mcp add --transport http in Claude Code, as a url entry in .cursor/mcp.json or .vscode/mcp.json, or as a custom connector in the Claude apps.

Is Honcho free?

The server is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (an API key or token) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.

Is Honcho actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 25, 2026. The latest release is v3.4.0, published Oct 22, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.