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Alaya MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 126 installs a week from npm. Last commit 16 Jul 2026.

Local memory engine for AI agents with knowledge graphs, forgetting, and semantic recall

Installs per day peak 30 · avg 9 · +8% w/w
a month agotoday
126
Installs / week
npm · alaya-mcp
19
Stars
2 open issues
16 Jul 2026
Last commit
no releases in 90 days
MIT
License
Rust

What the code does

We read the source, 3 d ago · rules 995398eba69f

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.

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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.

Runs a command on install [пакет] package.json:1
postinstall: node scripts/postinstall.js
const result = require("child_process").spawnSync(binary, process.argv.slice(2), {
Builds a file path from a variable npm/alaya-mcp/bin/run.js:31, [пакет] bin/run.js:31
    return path.join(pkgDir, binary);

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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 Alaya MCP 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 alaya-mcp -- npx -y alaya-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alaya-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "alaya-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.alaya-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "alaya-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alaya-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "alaya-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "alaya-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "alaya-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: ALAYA_LLM_API_KEY (API key for auto-consolidation (enables LLM-powered knowledge extraction)), ALAYA_LLM_API_URL (OpenAI-compatible chat completions endpoint), ALAYA_LLM_MODEL (Model name (e.g. gpt-4o-mini, haiku, gemini-flash)), ALAYA_DB (Path to SQLite database).

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Alaya MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Alaya MCP?
Alaya MCP 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 alaya-mcp was installed 126 times last week.
How do I connect Alaya MCP?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls alaya-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Alaya MCP?
The npm package alaya-mcp was installed 126 times in the last week. Week over week that is +8%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Alaya MCP open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Rust, 19 stars on GitHub and 2 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.