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Piia Engram

local MCP server

Piia Engram is a local MCP server: Local-first AI identity for MCP coding tools. Lessons, decisions, and context you control. Install it from pypi as piia-engram.

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add piia-engram -e ENGRAM_MCP_STARTUP_SYNC=... -e ENGRAM_TOOLS=... -e PYTHONIOENCODING=... -- uvx piia-engram

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": {
    "piia-engram": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "piia-engram"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ENGRAM_MCP_STARTUP_SYNC": "...",
        "ENGRAM_TOOLS": "...",
        "PYTHONIOENCODING": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

What you need

  • Runtime: Python with uv (runs with uvx).
  • MCP client: Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Claude Desktop, Cursor or any other client that speaks MCP over stdio.
  • Environment variables: ENGRAM_MCP_STARTUP_SYNC, ENGRAM_TOOLS, PYTHONIOENCODING

Summary

Local-first AI identity for MCP coding tools. Lessons, decisions, and context you control.

Piia Engram vs similar servers

ServerStarsTypeAPI keyRuntime
Piia Engram162LocalYespypi
SAME - Stateless Agent Memory Engine23LocalYesnpm
wigolo5,418LocalYesnpm
openflowkit-mcp816LocalNonpm
mcp-documentation-server342LocalNonpm

Questions

It reads 3 environment variables: ENGRAM_MCP_STARTUP_SYNC, ENGRAM_TOOLS, PYTHONIOENCODING. Set them in your MCP config before starting the server.

Python with uv (runs with uvx), plus an MCP client such as Claude Code, Codex, Claude Desktop or Cursor.

Piia Engram is a local MCP server distributed as the pypi package piia-engram.

Run: claude mcp add piia-engram -e ENGRAM_MCP_STARTUP_SYNC=... -e ENGRAM_TOOLS=... -e PYTHONIOENCODING=... -- uvx piia-engram

Run: codex mcp add piia-engram --env ENGRAM_MCP_STARTUP_SYNC=... --env ENGRAM_TOOLS=... --env PYTHONIOENCODING=... -- uvx piia-engram

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  4. mcp-documentation-serverio.github.andrea9293/mcp-documentation-server342
  5. PMB AIio.github.oleksiijko/pmb-ai280
  6. superlocalmemoryio.github.varun369/superlocalmemory226
  7. coreio.github.omega-memory/core218
  8. OMEGA Memoryio.github.omega-memory/omega-memory218