Silica Core

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add silica-core -e SILICA_VAULT=... -- uvx silica-core

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": {
    "silica-core": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "silica-core"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SILICA_VAULT": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

Retrieval over the folder the session opened: files, search, read, codepack, writenote.

Questions

Silica Core is a local MCP server distributed as the pypi package silica-core.

Run: claude mcp add silica-core -e SILICA_VAULT=... -- uvx silica-core

Run: codex mcp add silica-core --env SILICA_VAULT=... -- uvx silica-core

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