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Wax

Wax is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Shared Single-file memory layer for all your agents, sub mili-second RAG over text, photo and video on Apple… It has 805 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with npx -y waxmcp.

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Install Wax

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Claude Desktop

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

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio wax -- npx -y waxmcp

Cursor

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

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

VS Code

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

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 Wax

Chat dies. Wax does not. One local .wax file for Claude, Codex, Hermes, Cursor, and Apple Foundation Models. Searchable memory on disk. No account. No hosted vector DB.

  • ai-agents
  • data-science
  • machine-learning
  • memory
  • memory-cache
  • memory-hacking
  • on-device-ai
  • rag
  • coreml
  • coreml-framework

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FAQ

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How do I install the Wax MCP server?

Add the command npx -y waxmcp 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 Wax 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 Wax actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Sep 26, 2026. The latest release is waxmcp-v0.1.48, published Sep 24, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.