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Al Buddy Memory MCP Server

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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.

Installs per day peak 435 · avg 101 · -48% w/w
a month agotoday
441
Installs / week
npm · al-buddy-memory
3
Stars
1 open issue
15 Oct 2026
Last commit
19 releases in 90 days
Apache-2.0
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

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.

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add al-buddy-memory -- npx -y al-buddy-memory
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "al-buddy-memory": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "al-buddy-memory"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.al-buddy-memory]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "al-buddy-memory"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "al-buddy-memory": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "al-buddy-memory"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "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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Al Buddy Memory — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Al Buddy Memory?
Al Buddy Memory 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 al-buddy-memory was installed 441 times last week.
How do I connect Al Buddy Memory?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls al-buddy-memory straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Al Buddy Memory?
The npm package al-buddy-memory was installed 441 times in the last week. Week over week that is -48%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Al Buddy Memory open source?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript, 3 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.