frugal-memory runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 2 174 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 22 Oct 2026.
Memory for AI assistants in one SQLite file: full-text search, no vectors, no embeddings.
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check frugal-memory 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 mcp add frugal-memory -- uvx frugal-memory{
"mcpServers": {
"frugal-memory": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"frugal-memory"
]
}
}
}[mcp_servers.frugal-memory]
command = "uvx"
args = ["frugal-memory"]{
"mcpServers": {
"frugal-memory": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"frugal-memory"
]
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"frugal-memory": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"frugal-memory"
]
}
}
}Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
MEMORY_LANG (Tool names and texts: 'de' (default) or 'en'), MEMORY_DB (Path of the SQLite file. Default: $XDG_DATA_HOME/frugal-memory/memory.db).
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