Engram
Persistent memory system for AI coding agents. Agent-agnostic Go binary with SQLite + FTS5 backend, MCP server, HTTP API, CLI, and TUI. 3,341 GitHub stars and 100 commits on main in the last 30 days.
“Persistent memory system for AI coding agents. Agent-agnostic Go binary with SQLite + FTS5 backend, MCP server, HTTP API, CLI, and TUI. 3,341 stars and 100 commits on main in the last 30 days.”
INSTALL THIS SERVER
{
"mcpServers": {
"engram": {
"command": "engram",
"args": [
"mcp",
"serve"
],
"env": {
"ENGRAM_DB_PATH": "/Users/me/.engram/db.sqlite"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"engram": {
"command": "engram",
"args": [
"mcp",
"serve"
],
"env": {
"ENGRAM_DB_PATH": "/Users/me/.engram/db.sqlite"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"engram": {
"command": "engram",
"args": [
"mcp",
"serve"
],
"env": {
"ENGRAM_DB_PATH": "/Users/me/.engram/db.sqlite"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"engram": {
"command": "engram",
"args": [
"mcp",
"serve"
],
"env": {
"ENGRAM_DB_PATH": "/Users/me/.engram/db.sqlite"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"engram": {
"command": "engram",
"args": [
"mcp",
"serve"
],
"env": {
"ENGRAM_DB_PATH": "/Users/me/.engram/db.sqlite"
}
}
}
}
6 TOOLS AVAILABLE
OUR ASSESSMENT
- 3,341 GitHub stars.
- 100 commits on main in the last 30 days. Top cadence among memory MCPs.
- MIT license.
- Go binary; no Node or Python runtime required.
- SQLite + FTS5 backend; offline-first.
- Agent-agnostic; works across Claude, Codex, Cursor.
- Local SQLite; multi-machine sync requires manual file sync or external backup.
- FTS5 search is keyword-based; no semantic embeddings out of the box.
- Community-maintained.
Memory store is a local SQLite file. Set ENGRAM_DB_PATH to a sandboxed directory. remember can store arbitrary content; review whether the agent should persist secrets or PII before mounting in production.
Coding agents that need session-to-session memory; multi-agent flows where agents share a memory store; offline-first dev where the memory store should not depend on a cloud vector DB.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
ADOPTION METRICS
// Reading this3,341 stars on Gentleman-Programming/engram. 100 commits on main in the last 30 days.
// Reading thisPairs with Codebase Memory, Cognee, Pinecone, Qdrant in ai-ml. Engram owns the offline-first agent memory slot.
SOURCES & VERIFICATION
We don't take any single directory's word for it. Before scoring, we cross-reference 4 public MCP sources, install the server ourselves against the clients we cover, and record when we last re-verified.
The same server, 4 different lenses. We reconcile these signals into our editorial score, which is why our number sometimes diverges from a directory-aggregate star count.
| Source | Their rating | Their star count | Their downloads | Last synced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationSwitch This page | 4.4editorial | 3,341 | — | MAY 8, 2026 |
| PulseMCP | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 8, 2026 |
| MCP.so | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 8, 2026 |
| Glama | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 8, 2026 |
| Smithery | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 8, 2026 |
// Counts are directory-reported; we don't adjust them. Discrepancies usually come from different snapshot times or star-caching.
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