# neural-memory MCP Server

Persistent memory for AI agents — 55 MCP tools, spreading activation recall.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `neural-memory-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**26 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

### Plugin: nmem-hook-session-start binary not registered in .claude-plugin/hooks/hooks.json

## Summary

In v4.56.0 the SessionStart hook binary `nmem-hook-session-start` is shipped correctly (one of the 7 executables installed by `pip install neural-memory` / `uv tool install`). However, the plugin's own `.claude-plugin/hooks/hooks.json` only registers 3 hooks (PreCompact, Stop, PostToolUse). The SessionStart hook is silently missing for users installing via the Claude Code plugin marketplace path, so they miss out on the "session boots with full brain surface" feature highlighted in t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nhadaututtheky/neural-memory/issues/167) · 2026-05-14 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Plugin: skills folder not found — "./skills" in plugin.json resolves to plugin root, not .claude-plugin/

## Summary

When installing the plugin via Claude Code (`/plugin install neural-memory@neural-memory`), the loader reports:

```
neural-memory@neural-memory [neural-memory]: Path not found: /home/<user>/.claude/plugins/cache/neural-memory/neural-memory/4.56.0/skills (skills)
```

## Root cause

`.claude-plugin/plugin.json` declares:

```json
"skills": "./skills"
```

The actual skills folder lives at `.claude-plugin/skills/`. Claude Code's plugin loader resolves `"./skills"` relative to the plug

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nhadaututtheky/neural-memory/issues/166) · 2026-05-14 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Add CLI parity for MCP nmem_forget and clarify cleanup for unaddressable recall entries

## Environment

- `neural-memory` v4.53.2 (installed via pip)
- Linux x86_64, Python 3.12
- Used via CLI (`nmem`) and MCP (`nmem-mcp`) with OpenClaw

## Request 1: CLI parity for nmem_forget

The MCP surface exposes `nmem_forget`, and it works for normal typed fibers. Example: Codex successfully soft-deleted typed TODO fiber `256545b4-0b83-42b3-9291-31ef8563f05b` via MCP `nmem_forget`.

However, the installed CLI does not expose a top-level `nmem forget <fiber_id>` command. `nmem --help` lists c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nhadaututtheky/neural-memory/issues/148) · 2026-04-27 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### nmem_edit type/priority changes not persisted in PostgreSQL backend

## Environment

- neural-memory: 4.11.0 (pip), 4.10.0 (uvx MCP)
- Storage backend: PostgreSQL (config.toml: `storage_backend = "postgres"`)
- PostgreSQL 16 with pgvector 0.6.0

## Bug Description

`nmem_edit` via MCP reports success but does NOT persist type/priority changes to PostgreSQL. The in-memory state updates but the database row is unchanged.

## Steps to Reproduce

1. Store a memory: `nmem_remember("test", type="fact")`
2. Edit type: `nmem_edit(memory_id="<id>", type="instruction", pri

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nhadaututtheky/neural-memory/issues/84) · 2026-03-17 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### PostgreSQLStorage missing pin_fibers method — nmem_pin fails with 'Storage does not support pinning'

## Environment

- neural-memory version: 4.10.0 (via uvx)
- Storage backend: PostgreSQL (config.toml: `storage_backend = "postgres"`)
- PostgreSQL: 16.x with pgvector 0.6.0
- OS: Ubuntu 24.04

## Bug Description

`nmem_pin` returns `{"error": "Storage does not support pinning"}` when using PostgreSQL backend.

## Root Cause

In `mcp/train_handler.py` line 194:
```python
if not hasattr(storage, "pin_fibers"):
    return {"error": "Storage does not support pinning"}
```

`SQLiteStorage` has `pin_f

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nhadaututtheky/neural-memory/issues/83) · 2026-03-17 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### Most recent

### SQLite lock when Starting NeuralMemory API server on http://127.0.0.1:8000
  UI:   http://127.0.0.1:8000/ui
  Docs: http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs and MCP share the same brain; scheduled consolidation error

# NeuralMemory issue draft: SQLite lock and scheduler errors when `nmem serve` runs alongside MCP on the same brain

## Summary
When NeuralMemory `nmem serve` and `python -m neural_memory.mcp` run at the same time against the same SQLite brain (`dai-ca-main-v3.db`), write operations like `nmem_remember` fail with `OperationalError: database is locked`.

In the same runtime window, there are also background scheduler/consolidation errors:
- `ValueError: Fiber ... references non-existent neurons o

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nhadaututtheky/neural-memory/issues/129) · 2026-04-13 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### bug: NMEM_BRAIN env var works in MCP server but ignored by CLI

## Problem

`NMEM_BRAIN` env var works correctly when set on an MCP server process (the server reads the correct brain), but is **ignored by the CLI** (`nmem recall`, `nmem remember`, etc.).

## Steps to reproduce

```bash
# Current brain is 'ceo'
nmem brain use ceo

# CLI ignores NMEM_BRAIN — returns CEO brain data
NMEM_BRAIN=sherlock nmem recall "test query"

# Explicit switch works — returns sherlock brain data  
nmem brain use sherlock
nmem recall "test query"

# Results are different — env 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nhadaututtheky/neural-memory/issues/123) · 2026-03-31 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### bug: autoContext recall uses raw prompt with metadata — creates junk neurons

## Problem

`before_agent_start` hook sends `ev.prompt` directly to `nmem_recall`. When used with OpenClaw + Telegram, the prompt includes metadata preamble:

```
[NeuralMemory — relevant context]
...
Conversation info (untrusted metadata):
{"message_id": "369", "sender_id": "330693121", ...}
Sender (untrusted metadata):
{"label": "Tyler Vo", ...}

actual user message here
```

This causes recall to match on JSON metadata tokens (`json`, `message_id`, `conversation`, `metadata`, `untrusted`) ins

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nhadaututtheky/neural-memory/issues/104) · 2026-03-23 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### chore: getOrCreateMcpClient — change 'Reusing' log from info to debug

## Problem

`getOrCreateMcpClient()` logs at `info` level every time a cached client is reused:

```
logger.info(\`Reusing existing MCP client for brain "\${brain}"\`);
```

Since this runs on every `before_agent_start` and `agent_end` hook, it floods the gateway log with repetitive info lines — 2 per message turn.

## Suggestion

Change to `logger.debug()` — useful for debugging but not for normal operation.

```diff
- logger.info(\`Reusing existing MCP client for brain "\${brain}"\`);
+ logger

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nhadaututtheky/neural-memory/issues/103) · 2026-03-23 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### bug: OpenClaw plugin v1.14.0 — resolveBrain is not defined (dist not rebuilt from src)

## Problem

Plugin crashes on every `before_agent_start` and `agent_end` hook:

```
ReferenceError: resolveBrain is not defined
```

## Root Cause

`src/index.ts` has `resolveBrain()` function (line 162) and `getOrCreateMcpClient(cfg, logger, brainOverride?)` with 3 params.

But `dist/index.js` in the published npm package (`neuralmemory@1.14.0`) was not rebuilt — it is missing `resolveBrain()` entirely, and `getOrCreateMcpClient` only accepts 2 params.

The dist/ appears to be from a pre-brainM

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nhadaututtheky/neural-memory/issues/102) · 2026-03-23 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### perf: Embedding provider creates new instance per tool call — model reloads every turn

## Problem

`_create_provider()` in `engine/semantic_discovery.py` creates a **new** `SentenceTransformerEmbedding` instance every time it is called. Since `ReflexPipeline.__init__()` calls `_create_provider()`, and `tool_handlers.py` creates a new `ReflexPipeline` per tool call, the embedding model is **reloaded on every single recall/capture**.

In a production OpenClaw setup with autoContext + autoCapture enabled, this resulted in **48 model loads** in ~20 minutes of conversation.

## Evidenc

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nhadaututtheky/neural-memory/issues/100) · 2026-03-23 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### bug: plugin.json hooks field causes duplicate hooks error in Claude Code

## Description

When installing neural-memory as a Claude Code plugin, the following error occurs on `/reload-plugins`:

```
Hook load failed: Duplicate hooks file detected: ./hooks/hooks.json resolves to already-loaded file
/home/user/.claude/plugins/cache/neural-memory/neural-memory/4.19.0/hooks/hooks.json.
The standard hooks/hooks.json is loaded automatically, so manifest.hooks should only reference additional hook files.
```

## Root Cause

In `.claude-plugin/plugin.json`, the manifest decla

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nhadaututtheky/neural-memory/issues/99) · 2026-03-22 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

[See all 17 reports Pod holds for neural-memory](/mcp/neural-memory/issues) — of 26 qualified upstream.

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