Memory Bank MCP Server

Manages memory banks, enabling AI assistants to store and retrieve information across sessions for maintaining context.

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What is the Memory Bank MCP server?

Memory Bank MCP server is a locally run integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. Manages memory banks, enabling AI assistants to store and retrieve information across sessions for maintaining context.

What you get

Memory Bank Server provides a set of tools and resources for AI assistants to interact with Memory Banks. Memory Banks are structured repositories of information that help maintain context and track progress across multiple sessions.

  • Memory Bank Management — Initialize, find, and manage Memory Banks
  • File Operations — Read and write files in Memory Banks
  • Progress Tracking — Track progress and update Memory Bank files
  • Decision Logging — Log important decisions with context and alternatives
  • Active Context Management — Maintain and update active context information
  • Mode Support — Detect and use .clinerules files for mode-specific behavior

What the assistant can call

Once Memory Bank is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:

Setting it up

@movibe/memory-bank-mcp on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.

Choosing this one

Among the knowledge and memory options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Memory Bank's toolset — Benefits — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by movibe; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.

Before you rely on it

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the memory bank mcp server does with a few real requests.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
BenefitsFor more details, see [Memory Bank Status Prefix System](docs/memory-bank-status-prefix.md).

How to install the Memory Bank MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memory-bank-2": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@movibe/memory-bank-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.

Example prompts to try

  • Use Memory Bank to Benefits.

Frequently asked questions

Memory Bank is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that manages memory for AI assistants, enabling them to store and retrieve information across sessions for maintaining context and tracking progress.