Install guide and config at curatedmcp.com

Memory MCP Server: Give Claude a Brain That Remembers Across Conversations

The problem: Claude starts fresh every conversation. Want your AI agent to remember that your API keys live in a specific vault, or that Alice leads the payments team, or that your prod database is on AWS us-east-1? You had to paste that context in every single time.

Memory MCP Server solves this by giving Claude a persistent knowledge graph that survives session restarts. Store entities, relationships, and observations locally—your AI agent reads and updates them just like you'd expect.

What It Does

Memory MCP Server creates a local knowledge graph that Claude can query and modify using natural language. You can store named entities (people, projects, services, concepts) with properties, define relationships between them, and attach notes and observations.

Instead of manually re-explaining your system architecture or team structure in every chat, Claude retrieves what it already knows. The server handles persistence transparently—close your session, reopen it tomorrow, and the memory is intact. Since everything stays local, your data never leaves your machine.

This unlocks continuity in agent workflows. Multi-turn projects become genuinely stateful. Cursor or Claude can maintain context about your codebase, deployment configs, team decisions, and project history without you being a copy-paste machine.

How to Install

npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-memory

Then add to your Claude Desktop config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memory-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-memory"
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop and the server activates automatically.

Real-World Use Cases

• System architecture reference: Store your deployment topology, service URLs, and infrastructure decisions once. Claude recalls them in future conversations without you having to re-explain.

• Team and project context: "Note that Alice leads payments, Bob owns infrastructure." Claude remembers the org structure and makes better recommendations aligned with who owns what.

• Development workflows: Store API keys, environment variables, and local config once in the knowledge graph. Claude retrieves them contextually across sessions instead of you managing secrets manually.

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