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Vestige

Vestige is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Local-first memory for AI agents that reaches backward to find a failure's root cause. It has 645 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and runs locally with npx -y vestige-mcp-server.

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Install Vestige

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

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vestige": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "vestige-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio vestige -- npx -y vestige-mcp-server

Cursor

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

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

VS Code

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

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 Vestige

Vestige is a fail-closed runtime firewall for AI agents. The model proposes, a deterministic gate decides, and every action leaves a receipt. When something breaks, causalwalk finds the real cause.

  • claude
  • fsrs
  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • neuroscience
  • rust
  • local-first
  • security
  • claude-code
  • model-context-protocol

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What is Vestige?

Vestige is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Local-first memory for AI agents that reaches backward to find a failure's root cause. It has 645 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and runs locally with npx -y vestige-mcp-server. The source code is at github.com/samvallad33/vestige.

How do I install the Vestige MCP server?

Add the command npx -y vestige-mcp-server 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 Vestige 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 Vestige actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 7, 2026. The latest release is v4.2.0, published Oct 6, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.