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Memex

Memex is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Zettelkasten-based agent memory system with bidirectional links. It has 142 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y @touchskyer/memex.

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Install Memex

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memex": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@touchskyer/memex"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MEMEX_HOME": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env MEMEX_HOME=your-value --transport stdio memex -- npx -y @touchskyer/memex

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memex": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@touchskyer/memex"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MEMEX_HOME": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "memex": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@touchskyer/memex"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MEMEX_HOME": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
MEMEX_HOMENoCustom data directory for memex cards (default: ~/.memex)

About Memex

Persistent memory for AI coding agents. Your agent remembers what it learned across sessions. Every time your AI agent finishes a task, it saves insights as atomic knowledge cards with [[bidirectional links]]. Next session, it recalls relevant cards before starting work — building on what it already knows instead of starting from scratch.

  • agent-memory
  • ai-agent
  • ai-coding
  • claude-code
  • cursor
  • knowledge-management
  • mcp-server
  • memory
  • vscode
  • zettelkasten

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What is Memex?

Memex is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Zettelkasten-based agent memory system with bidirectional links. It has 142 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y @touchskyer/memex. The source code is at github.com/iamtouchskyer/memex.

How do I install the Memex MCP server?

Add the command npx -y @touchskyer/memex 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 Memex free?

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

Is Memex actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Sep 8, 2026. The latest release is v0.4.1, published Sep 8, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.