a-mem-mcp

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add a-mem-mcp -e LLM_BACKEND=... -e LLM_MODEL=... -e OPENAI_API_KEY=... -e EMBEDDING_MODEL=... -e CHROMA_DB_PATH=... -- uvx a-mem

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "a-mem-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "a-mem"
      ],
      "env": {
        "LLM_BACKEND": "...",
        "LLM_MODEL": "...",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "...",
        "EMBEDDING_MODEL": "...",
        "CHROMA_DB_PATH": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

Self-evolving memory system for AI agents

Questions

a-mem-mcp is a local MCP server distributed as the pypi package a-mem.

Run: claude mcp add a-mem-mcp -e LLM_BACKEND=... -e LLM_MODEL=... -e OPENAI_API_KEY=... -e EMBEDDING_MODEL=... -e CHROMA_DB_PATH=... -- uvx a-mem

Run: codex mcp add a-mem-mcp --env LLM_BACKEND=... --env LLM_MODEL=... --env OPENAI_API_KEY=... --env EMBEDDING_MODEL=... --env CHROMA_DB_PATH=... -- uvx a-mem

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