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Piia Engram MCP Server

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Piia Engram runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 1 679 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 1 Sep 2026.

Local-first AI identity for MCP coding tools. Lessons, decisions, and context you control.

Installs per day peak 960 · avg 289 · -29% w/w
a month agotoday
1 679
Installs / week
pypi · piia-engram
160
Stars
0 open issues
1 Sep 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
AGPL-3.0
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 21 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

            "rm -rf",
Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

    _is_ephemeral = os.path.isfile("/.dockerenv") or _env_flag_enabled("ENGRAM_EPHEMERAL")

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch Piia Engram and you get told the day something new turns up.

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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 piia-engram -- uvx piia-engram
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "piia-engram": {
      "args": [
        "piia-engram"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.piia-engram]
command = "uvx"
args = ["piia-engram"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "piia-engram": {
      "args": [
        "piia-engram"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "piia-engram": {
      "args": [
        "piia-engram"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: ENGRAM_MCP_STARTUP_SYNC (Skip optional local startup reconciliation during marketplace/client validation; set to background for local cross-tool sync.), ENGRAM_TOOLS (Expose the context-budget friendly default surface; set to all for the full advanced surface.), PYTHONIOENCODING (Force UTF-8 stdio frames on Windows-style consoles.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Piia Engram — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Piia Engram?
Piia Engram 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 pypi package piia-engram was installed 1 679 times last week.
How do I connect Piia Engram?
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 piia-engram straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Piia Engram?
The pypi package piia-engram was installed 1 679 times in the last week. Week over week that is -29%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Piia Engram open source?
Yes — it is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence, written in Python and 160 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.