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Ori Memory

Ori Memory is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Persistent memory infrastructure for AI agents. It has 330 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with npx -y ori-memory.

github.com/aayoawoyemi/Ori-Mnemos (opens in a new tab)

Install Ori Memory

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

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ori-memory": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ori-memory"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio ori-memory -- npx -y ori-memory

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ori-memory": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ori-memory"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "ori-memory": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ori-memory"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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).

Tools (18)

Parsed from the Tools section of the README; check the repository for the current list.

  • ori_wake

    Session boot: bounded briefing, plus onboarding on a fresh vault

  • ori_update

    Write to identity, goals, methodology, daily, or reminders

  • ori_update_decision

    Record the user's answer to an update notice

  • ori_whats_new

    Release notes for the installed version, or any version

  • memory_sql

    Read-only SQL over the index — anything the ranking tools cannot express

  • ori_health

    Full diagnostics

  • ori_add

    Capture to inbox

  • ori_promote

    Promote with classification, linking, and area assignment

  • ori_validate

    Schema validation

  • ori_query_ranked

    Full retrieval with Q-value reranking, co-occurrence PPR, and stage meta-learning

  • ori_query_similar

    Semantic search (vector only, faster)

  • ori_warmth

    Inspect the associative warmth field

  • ori_explore

    Recursive graph traversal — PPR, sub-question decomposition, convergence detection

  • ori_prune

    Activation topology analysis and archive candidates

  • ori_index_build

    Build/update embedding index and bootstrap co-occurrence edges

  • ori_status

    SELECT COUNT() FROM vnote

  • ori_query_important

    SELECT title, pagerank FROM vnote ORDER BY pagerank DESC

  • ori_query_fading

    oriprune, which its own description already deferred to

About Ori Memory

Open-source persistent memory infrastructure for AI agents. Ori implements human cognition as mathematical models on a knowledge graph. Activation decay from ACT-R. Spreading activation along wiki-link edges. Hebbian co-occurrence from retrieval patterns. Reinforcement learning on retrieval itself. Recursive graph traversal with sub-question decomposition. The system learns what matters, forgets what doesn't, and optimizes its own retrieval pipeline.

  • agent-memory
  • ai-agent
  • ai-memory
  • knowledge-graph
  • llm
  • markdown
  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • model-context-protocol
  • persistent-memory

FAQ

Ori Memory FAQ

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What is Ori Memory?

Ori Memory is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Persistent memory infrastructure for AI agents. It has 330 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with npx -y ori-memory. The source code is at github.com/aayoawoyemi/Ori-Mnemos.

How do I install the Ori Memory MCP server?

Add the command npx -y ori-memory 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 Ori Memory free?

The server is open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Ori Memory actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 1, 2026. The latest release is v0.8.1, published Oct 1, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.