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Link is an MCP server that adds productivity tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Local personal memory for agents as MCP tools — remember, recall, search, context, graph traversal. It has 218 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx link-mcp.

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Install Link

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Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "link": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "link-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio link -- uvx link-mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "link": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "link-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "link": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "link-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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 Link

Link gives Codex, Claude, Cursor, Kiro, VS Code, Copilot, Antigravity, and other local agents the same source-backed memory, stored locally as Markdown.

  • knowledge-base
  • llm
  • markdown
  • obsidian
  • personal-wiki
  • local-memory
  • memory

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FAQ

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How do I install the Link MCP server?

Add the command uvx link-mcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Link free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Link actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 26, 2026. The latest release is v5.0.0, published Oct 26, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.