# Engram MCP Server

Persistent memory for AI agents — verbatim conversations, searchable by meaning.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled Engram yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://mcp.getengram.app/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "engram": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.getengram.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Known issues

**32 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### bug: ChatGPT MCP tool call blocked — Engram tools fail to execute

## Bug

When using Engram as an MCP connector in ChatGPT (Settings > Apps > Developer mode), tool calls to Engram are blocked. ChatGPT reports: "I also tried to pass your request to Engram, but the tool call was blocked, so I can't confirm that anything was saved there."

## Screenshot

User asked: "Engram can you remember everything I've said in my chatgpt"

ChatGPT attempted to call an Engram tool but it was blocked. The response fell back to a generic explanation instead of using the MCP tool

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-engram/engram/issues/231) · 2026-07-08 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### Distribute: list Engram on cursor.directory

Cursor has **no formal app-review process** — users add MCP servers via `~/.cursor/mcp.json` / Settings → MCP. The community discovery surface is **cursor.directory** (third-party).

> Owner believes a manual Cursor submission may already have been made independently. **Confirm status before re-submitting** (check `hello@getengram.app` for a reply) to avoid a duplicate.

### Task
- [ ] Confirm whether a cursor.directory (or other Cursor) submission already exists.
- [ ] If not, submit at https:/

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-engram/engram/issues/218) · 2026-07-01 · open · outside contributor · 3 comments

### Distribute: submit Engram to MCP registries (Official Registry, Smithery, Glama, PulseMCP, mcp.so)

Self-submit Engram to the major MCP server registries/aggregators for discovery + SEO. No review gate (except the official registry's namespace verification).

Reuse canonical listing copy in `docs/launch/chatgpt-app-listing.md`:
- **Name:** Engram
- **MCP URL (remote):** `https://mcp.getengram.app/mcp`
- **Auth:** OAuth 2.1 (Dynamic Client Registration) or API key
- **Short:** Persistent, searchable memory for AI agents — remember context across conversations.
- **Category:** Memory / Knowledge

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-engram/engram/issues/217) · 2026-07-01 · closed · outside contributor · 4 comments

### feat(cli): import ChatGPT data export into Engram

Users want their full ChatGPT history in Engram, not just the model's recollection. ChatGPT can't bulk-upload past chats. Add an importer for the official ChatGPT data export.

- \`engram import <conversations.json>\` — parses the export's node tree (current_node → root), keeps user/assistant text messages in order, creates one Engram conversation per chat (tagged \`chatgpt-import\`), stores messages in batches.
- Flags: \`--dry-run\`, \`--limit <n>\`, \`--tag <name>\`. Stops cleanly on plan-lim

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-engram/engram/issues/203) · 2026-06-30 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### appstore: restricted-data review + position the secrets vault for submission

Part of #184. Guidelines prohibit collecting payment card info, health data, government IDs, or credentials, and require 'operate only on explicitly shared snippets' (no chat-log extraction).

- Confirm core memory tools only store explicitly-passed content (they do) and document this for the privacy review.
- **Secrets vault** (`vault_*`, named_secrets) stores client-encrypted secrets/credentials — assess whether to (a) exclude vault tools from the published ChatGPT app surface, (b) keep them w

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-engram/engram/issues/188) · 2026-06-30 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Most recent

### feat(dashboard): one-click connector section — click-to-connect each tool

## What
The dashboard's "Connect to ChatGPT" box (and the others) is a static 3-step instruction list. Replace it with a **connector grid** — one card per tool (ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, VS Code) with a **Connect** button that does as much of the flow as each tool allows, instead of make-the-user-read-steps.

## Why
Activation is the #1 problem (81% of connected users never save a memory). The faster and more obvious "connect it" is, the more people reach first value

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-engram/engram/issues/304) · 2026-07-23 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Pro promise: public REST API + API usage metering (pricing says "MCP + REST API")

The pricing page sells Pro as "MCP + REST API" with "1 API key", and the dashboard shows usage — but:

1. **The memory API is MCP-only.** The six memory operations (create/list/get/delete conversation, append, search) exist only as MCP tools on `/mcp`. The REST surface under `/api/*` is account management (keys, seats, billing, usage) plus two dashboard-internal endpoints (`/api/memories`). A Pro customer who wants to call Engram from a backend without an MCP client can't.
2. **No API usage mete

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-engram/engram/issues/287) · 2026-07-21 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### bug: audit_log entries silently dropped — fire-and-forget calls raced against Workers request teardown

## Summary
Production `audit_log` had **0 rows ever recorded for `search`**, and only 4 for `messages.append`, despite those being the most-called MCP tools by a wide margin — versus 161 `conversation.read` and 118 `conversation.list`. Discovered 2026-07-20 while building the activation-tracking funnel (which depends on `audit_log` for `first_search`/`first_successful_recall`/session data — it would have reported near-zero forever if this had shipped unfixed).

## Root cause
Every call to `audit

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-engram/engram/issues/286) · 2026-07-21 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### feat(cli): multi-host capture framework — adapter registry + per-host status

## Problem

The daemon is Claude-Code-specific (single watcher). With Cursor hooks, Claude hooks, Codex, and experimental VS Code arriving, capture needs a pluggable shape.

## Proposal
- Adapter interface: `detect() / install() / start() / stop() / health()` per host.
- `engram status` lists every detected host and its capture state:
```
claude-code   ● capturing (hooks+watch)
cursor        ● capturing (hooks)
codex         ○ detected — run: engram install codex
chatgpt       ◐ on-request via M

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-engram/engram/issues/261) · 2026-07-14 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### feat(cli): Claude Code hooks as primary capture path (hybrid with JSONL watch backstop)

## Problem

Today we file-watch `~/.claude/projects/**/*.jsonl`. It works, but the docs note the transcript is written asynchronously and may lag, and pure watching misses lifecycle precision.

## Proposal (from verified research)
Use Claude Code's deterministic hooks as primary: `Stop`/`SubagentStop` expose `last_assistant_message` (docs recommend it over reading the lagging transcript); `UserPromptSubmit`, `SessionEnd` for turn/session boundaries; every payload carries `transcript_path` for re

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-engram/engram/issues/259) · 2026-07-14 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### feat(cli): Cursor capture adapter — deterministic verbatim sync via Cursor hooks

## Goal

Give Cursor the same "always recording" guarantee as Claude Code — the usage engine that drives conversion (#252).

Cursor 1.7+ ships a native hooks system (`~/.cursor/hooks.json`, project/team/enterprise scopes): `beforeSubmitPrompt` (user prompt, fires deterministically on every submission) and `afterAgentResponse` (assistant text), plus `stop`/`sessionStart`/`sessionEnd`/`postToolUse`. Hooks are spawned programs over stdio JSON — deterministic, not model-invoked. Verified against cur

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-engram/engram/issues/258) · 2026-07-14 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### fix: GET /mcp hangs causing 85% scriptThrewException crash rate

## Problem

The Worker has an 85% error rate — ~43,000 `scriptThrewException` per day. All errors are:

> The Workers runtime canceled this request because it detected that your Worker's code had hung and would never generate a response.

Every crash is a `GET /mcp` with `Accept: text/event-stream` from MCP clients (Claude Code, etc.) attempting SSE streaming. The `app.all("/mcp", ...)` handler passes these to `WebStandardStreamableHTTPServerTransport.handleRequest()` which hangs forever because

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-engram/engram/issues/240) · 2026-07-12 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

[See all 20 reports Pod holds for Engram](/mcp/engram/issues) — of 32 qualified upstream.

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