universal-memory MCP Server

A vendor-agnostic cognitive persistence layer for AI agents. Eliminate the "repetition tax" by transporting your context, preferences, guidelines, and history seamlessly across sessions, IDEs, and…

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What is the universal-memory MCP Server?

universal-memory is an MCP project maintained in the yanamorelli/universal-memory repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “A vendor-agnostic cognitive persistence layer for AI agents. Eliminate the "repetition tax" by transporting your context, preferences, guidelines, and history seamlessly across sessions, IDEs, and…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.

Installation

The documented pypi package is universal-memory. The configuration below comes from the maintainer’s example; adapt its paths and account values to your environment.

Source

Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.

How to install the universal-memory MCP Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "universal-memory": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--from",
        "universal-memory",
        "umem-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.