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RAG Vault MCP Server

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RAG Vault runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 69 installs a week from npm. Last commit 14 Sep 2026.

Local RAG MCP server with hybrid search, PDF/DOCX support, and zero-config setup

Installs per day peak 310 · avg 40 · -7% w/w
a month agotoday
69
Installs / week
npm · @robthepcguy/rag-vault
2
Stars
0 open issues
14 Sep 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check RAG Vault 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 rag-vault -- npx -y @robthepcguy/rag-vault
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rag-vault": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@robthepcguy/rag-vault"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.rag-vault]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@robthepcguy/rag-vault"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rag-vault": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@robthepcguy/rag-vault"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rag-vault": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@robthepcguy/rag-vault"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: BASE_DIR (Base directory for document storage (defaults to current working directory)), DB_PATH (Path to LanceDB database directory (defaults to ./lancedb/)), CACHE_DIR (Directory where Transformers.js models are cached (defaults to ./models/)), MODEL_NAME (Embedding model name (defaults to Xenova/all-MiniLM-L6-v2)), RAG_HYBRID_WEIGHT (Keyword boost strength for hybrid search. 0.0 = semantic only, 1.0 = keyword only. Default 0.6), RAG_GROUPING (Grouping mode: 'similar' (top group only) or 'related' (top 2 groups)). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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RAG Vault — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for RAG Vault?
RAG Vault 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 @robthepcguy/rag-vault was installed 69 times last week.
How do I connect RAG Vault?
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 @robthepcguy/rag-vault straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use RAG Vault?
The npm package @robthepcguy/rag-vault was installed 69 times in the last week. Week over week that is -7%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is RAG Vault open source?
We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 2 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.