# memex MCP Server

Zettelkasten-based agent memory system with bidirectional links

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@touchskyer/memex` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**7 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 5.

### Most discussed

### Memex and Codex

Heya,

I want to share some experience from my try-outs with memex. In my personal use, I do use github, VSC, Codex Extension in VSC on a Windows computer.

I have memex installed successfully. The MCP is available in the Codex VSC Extension. When interacting with codex, I see the `Used Memex` when Codex begins to work. So this connection is correct.

I have added this to my AGENTS.md:

```md
## Memex MCP Usage

For every new request anywhere under `D:\Hold\VS Code`, use the Memex MCP
server as 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/iamtouchskyer/memex/issues/151) · 2026-05-14 · open · external user · 21 comments

### SessionStart hook requires global npm install -g — should use ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} like other plugins

Problem

  The memex plugin's SessionStart hook (hooks/hooks.json) runs command -v memex to check for a globally installed CLI. When not found, it prints a warning asking users to run npm
  install -g @touchskyer/memex. This makes the plugin non-functional without a manual global install step.

  How other Claude Code plugins solve this

  Every other plugin with hooks avoids global install requirements by using ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} — an environment variable that Claude Code sets at runtime, po

[Read the thread](https://github.com/iamtouchskyer/memex/issues/48) · 2026-04-10 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### VS Code Extension Does Not Register MCP Server for Claude Code

Heya @iamtouchskyer,

I finally made the move from Codex to Claude in my personal setup and now start using memex together with Claude. As always, I want to share my experience and want to help to make the product better :)

## Summary

Installing the `Memex - Agent Memory` VS Code extension does **not** make the memex MCP server available in Claude Code. The extension registers its MCP server exclusively via VS Code's `vscode.lm` API, which serves GitHub Copilot only. Claude Code maintains its 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/iamtouchskyer/memex/issues/168) · 2026-06-09 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Memex MCP Timeout Bug Report

## Summary

`memex_retro` and `memex_write` can time out in the MCP client after 120 seconds even when the underlying card store is healthy. The most likely cause is that `@touchskyer/memex` version `0.2.0` performs blocking Git sync operations during MCP tool execution without any command-level timeout or non-interactive Git/SSH safeguards.

This is amplified by an implementation mismatch:

- `memex_retro` runs `autoFetch` before writing and `autoSync` after writing.
- `writeCommand()` also run

[Read the thread](https://github.com/iamtouchskyer/memex/issues/157) · 2026-05-16 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### `memex_write` / `memex_retro` (MCP) doesn't trigger `autoSync` push when remote uses SSH

### Summary

With `.sync.json` configured as `{"adapter": "git", "auto": true, "remote": "git@github.com:<user>/<cards-repo>.git", ...}`, calling `memex_write` (or `memex_retro`) via the **MCP server** writes the card file to `~/.memex/cards/` but does **not** commit/push it — the file is left untracked in the local git repo, with no error surfaced to the agent or user.

Running `memex sync` manually from an interactive shell immediately commits and pushes successfully ("Pushed."), so the git re

[Read the thread](https://github.com/iamtouchskyer/memex/issues/169) · 2026-06-10 · closed · external user · 1 comment

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