Al Buddy Memory runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 441 installs a week from npm. Last commit 15 Oct 2026.
Governed local memory for AI agents: facts are retired, not overwritten, and every call is audited.
Today is the operative word: we check Al Buddy Memory every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
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 mcp add al-buddy-memory -- npx -y al-buddy-memory
{
"mcpServers": {
"al-buddy-memory": {
"args": [
"-y",
"al-buddy-memory"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}
[mcp_servers.al-buddy-memory]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "al-buddy-memory"]
{
"mcpServers": {
"al-buddy-memory": {
"args": [
"-y",
"al-buddy-memory"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"al-buddy-memory": {
"args": [
"-y",
"al-buddy-memory"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}
This one needs environment variables set before it will start:
AL_BUDDY_MEMORY_DB (The SQLite memory file. A leading ~ is expanded.), AL_BUDDY_MEMORY_OWNER (Whose memory this is; the owner's policy applies to every call.), AL_BUDDY_MEMORY_AUDIT (Optional JSONL file for the audit chain instead of the database's own table. One writing process per file.), AL_BUDDY_MEMORY_AUDIT_KEY (Optional HMAC key for the audit chain. Keep it away from the trail.), AL_BUDDY_MEMORY_SEMANTIC (Set to off for keyword-only recall; the on-device embedding model is then never downloaded.), AL_BUDDY_MEMORY_MODEL_CACHE (Where the on-device embedding model (about 90 MB, downloaded once) is kept.), AL_BUDDY_MEMORY_INDEX_LIMIT (Most facts embedded in the background per start (0 skips it).).
The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.
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