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TrueMemory is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. The memory your AI should have had from the start. It has 380 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and runs locally with uvx truememory.

github.com/buildingjoshbetter/TrueMemory (opens in a new tab)

Install TrueMemory

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "truememory": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "truememory"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio truememory -- uvx truememory

Cursor

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

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

VS Code

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

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 TrueMemory

Why · Quick Start · Compare · Tiers · Benchmarks · API · Docs · FAQ · Discord It finds signal in the noise. Your AI sees thousands of messages. TrueMemory figures out which ones actually matter and throws away the rest. No manual tagging, no prompt engineering. It just knows.

  • agent-memory
  • ai-agents
  • ai-memory
  • anthropic
  • claude-code
  • embeddings
  • mcp
  • model-context-protocol
  • rag
  • sqlite

FAQ

TrueMemory FAQ

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What is TrueMemory?

TrueMemory is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. The memory your AI should have had from the start. It has 380 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and runs locally with uvx truememory. The source code is at github.com/buildingjoshbetter/TrueMemory.

How do I install the TrueMemory MCP server?

Add the command uvx truememory 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 TrueMemory free?

The server is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is TrueMemory actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Aug 29, 2026. The latest release is v0.7.6.2, published Jun 11, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.