Personality Runtime for AI agents — persistent memory, personality, and relationships via MCP
Being MCP server is a locally run integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. Personality Runtime for AI agents — persistent memory, personality, and relationships via MCP.
Being is an open-source layer that sits between your application and any LLM. It provides persistent personality (SOUL), episodic memory, background thought cycles (Patrol), and cryptographic identity — turning a stateless LLM into a distinct, evolving AI entity.
Installation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at npm on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
Once Being is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverSetup — The Setup tool exposed by this serverYou will need 6 environment variables: SUPABASE_URL, SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY, ENCRYPTION_KEY, WORKER_SECRET, VAPID_PUBLIC_KEY, VAPID_PRIVATE_KEY. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
This sits in the knowledge and memory group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Being's toolset — Prerequisites, Setup — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by com.ruddia; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Being's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Setup | The Setup tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"my-being": {
"url": "https://being.ruddia.com/mcp/<being_id>",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer brt_your_token_here"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| SUPABASE_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
| SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| ENCRYPTION_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| WORKER_SECRET | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| VAPID_PUBLIC_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| VAPID_PRIVATE_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
A knowledge graph your assistant keeps between sessions — entities, relations and observations that persist.
Kill hallucinated APIs — version-accurate, up-to-date library documentation injected straight into context.
Your workspace, on speaking terms with AI — search, read and write Notion pages and databases.
A structured scratchpad for hard problems — stepwise reasoning with revisions, branches and visible logic.
Symbol-level code navigation, refactoring and memory for coding agents — the IDE brain your assistant has been missing.
Chat with your second brain — search, read and write vault notes through the Local REST API.