What you can do with Basic Memory

Basic Memory is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server published by basicmachines-co. It ranks #57 of 153,242 active servers on MCP Toplist, and its repository has 4,334 GitHub stars. Basic Memory is listed across 4 registries — Official MCP, PulseMCP, mcp.so and Glama, with 12 tracked versions. It was first listed on Mar 11, 2025 and most recently updated on Oct 23, 2026.

What Basic Memory can and cannot do

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What you need before using Basic Memory

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Connect Basic Memory and confirm it works

claude mcp add basic-memory -- uvx --prerelease allow basic-memory mcp basic-memory

[mcp_servers.basic-memory]
command = "uvx"
args = ["--prerelease", "allow", "basic-memory", "mcp", "basic-memory"]

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "basic-memory": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--prerelease",
        "allow",
        "basic-memory",
        "mcp",
        "basic-memory"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "basic-memory": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--prerelease",
        "allow",
        "basic-memory",
        "mcp",
        "basic-memory"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "basic-memory": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--prerelease",
        "allow",
        "basic-memory",
        "mcp",
        "basic-memory"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "basic-memory": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--prerelease",
        "allow",
        "basic-memory",
        "mcp",
        "basic-memory"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "basic-memory": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--prerelease",
        "allow",
        "basic-memory",
        "mcp",
        "basic-memory"
      ]
    }
  }
}

When to choose another server

• GoHighLevel MCP Server#23,958
• Code Remote#54,172

No task-specific alternatives are catalogued for Basic Memoryyet; the list above is its publisher's other servers.

What changed, and when this was checked

First listed

Mar 11, 2025

Latest version published

Oct 23, 2026

Version history

12 versions tracked (below)

Requirements evidence

Declared by Glama, last synced Oct 28, 2026. Not independently verified by MCP Toplist.

Profile checked

Not yet — purpose, capabilities and requirements above come from registry data only

Ranking data as of

Oct 28, 2026

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