How do I install Verbative Memory?

Copy the stdio config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.

Does Verbative Memory need an API key?

No required environment variable is listed on this record.

What transport does Verbative Memory use?

Verbative Memory runs locally over stdio.

When was Verbative Memory last checked?

Last checked 2026-11-10. On-device, self-organizing memory for AI coding agents — recalls the right facts into each prompt.

Verbative Memory MCP server

Power your agent

Add this server

The publisher's own command. Not a PlugMCP endpoint.

Add to Cursor Add to VS Code Run on PlugMCP

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

Local command

npx -y [email protected]

Claude Code has no install link for a local command. Copy the command below and run it in a terminal.

shClaude Code

1claude mcp add io.github.verbative-verbative-memory -- npx -y verbative-memory@1.1.3

Run in a terminal.

jsonClaude Desktop

1{2  "mcpServers": {3    "io.github.verbative-verbative-memory": {4      "command": "npx",5      "args": [6        "-y",7        "[email protected]"8      ]9    }10  }11}

claude_desktop_config.json

Local · npmPublisher installStep-by-step: add this in Claude

Remote URL or a command on your machine? How the two installs differ

Run on PlugMCP

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

A new server you create. It is not this listing's official endpoint. Use the publisher install when you want their URL and their credentials.

Launch

Server facts

Local

Transport: stdio
Version: 1.1.3
Last checked

Tools

No tool list yet. Remote servers get one after the first health check.

FAQ

Questions

Verbative Memory

On-device memory system for AI coding agents — a dual-layer engine (distilled facts + a lossless event ledger), automatically captured and injected, exposed over MCP. Shared across agents, persistent across sessions; stored as plain, human-readable files in your repo — no memory cloud, no vendor database.

This repository is the public home for docs, install help, and issues. The engine is closed-source and ships as a sealed, compiled package — there is no source code here.

How it works — capture everything, recall selectively

Complete capture, in two layers. Underneath sits a lossless ledger: a mechanical, no-model record of every command, edit, and test result, so "what did we run" and "when did this test start failing" are exact, replayable facts. On top, an on-device model distills that stream into atomic, typed memories — decisions, conventions, and dead ends.
Selective recall — the two layers fused. A single recall surfaces only the handful of distilled facts that matter (ranked by semantic search and a reranker) and interleaves them, by time, with the exact ledger record around them: what you decided next to what you actually did. One answer, not a dump of the whole history.
Self-organizing. New facts reconcile against old ones, importance decays on per-type forgetting curves, frequently-recalled facts strengthen, and recurring specifics distill into higher-level insights.
Yours, on-device. Memories live in human-readable files in your project. Recall makes zero cloud calls.

Requirements

macOS (Apple silicon) or Windows 10/11 (x64). (Linux is on the roadmap.)
A Verbative account — Memory is part of the Code Advanced plan and starts with a 14-day free trial. See the plans and the Terms.

Install

Claude Code CLI — automatic capture and recall:

claude mcp add verbative-memory -- npx -y verbative-memory

pip:

pip install verbative-memory
verbative-memory login      # sign in with your Verbative account

Any MCP client (mcp.json / stdio):

{ "mcpServers": { "verbative-memory": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "verbative-memory"] } } }

Automatic capture and injection are built for the Claude Code CLI and Codex; any other Model Context Protocol client can call the tools manually. The first run downloads the on-device engine and models once; after that, recall runs fully offline.

More detail in docs/INSTALL.md and at verbative.de/docs/memory.

Tools

remember · recall · search · ask · list · get · pin · forget · revise · edit_core · feedback · related · history · timeline · events — and more. See the docs.

Privacy

Capture, embeddings, reranking, and the knowledge graph all run locally. Your code and memories are not uploaded; the memory files stay in your project and leave your machine only if you choose to share them.

Issues

Bug reports and feature requests are welcome in the issue tracker — the place for anything about the docs or the tool. For your account, licensing, or a trial, email [email protected].

Verbative is a product of Cramer Digital. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Anthropic. Verbative works alongside Anthropic's Claude and the Claude Code CLI; those names belong to Anthropic. See LICENSE.

Verbative Memory

Add this server

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

Server facts

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Questions

How do I install Verbative Memory?

Does Verbative Memory need an API key?

What transport does Verbative Memory use?

When was Verbative Memory last checked?

Documentation

Verbative Memory

How it works — capture everything, recall selectively

Requirements

Install

Tools

Privacy

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Issues