Elefante MCP Server

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Elefante runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 103 installs a week from npm. Last commit 20 Apr 2026.

Open, Git-native memory protocol for MCP agents. Portable, versioned, human-editable.

Installs per day peak 17 · avg 8 · -25% w/w

a month agotoday

103

Installs / week

npm · elefante-mcp

Stars

0 open issues

20 Apr 2026

Last commit

no releases in 90 days

MIT

License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Elefante every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add elefante -- npx -y elefante-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elefante": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "elefante-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.elefante]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "elefante-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elefante": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "elefante-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "elefante": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "elefante-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Elefante — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Elefante?

Elefante runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package elefante-mcp was installed 103 times last week.

How do I connect Elefante?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls elefante-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Elefante?

The npm package elefante-mcp was installed 103 times in the last week. Week over week that is -25%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Elefante open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 15 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.