# ori-memory MCP Server

Persistent memory infrastructure for AI agents. Identity, knowledge graph, and search.

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

## Status

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## Connect

Published as `ori-memory` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

### Most discussed

### 0.5.5 field report: silent retrieval degradation in serve mode (vault resolution, stage-learner starvation, time budget) + config/versioning nits

We run Ori Mnemos daily against a ~1,900-note vault (npm `ori-memory@0.5.5`,
node v22.20.0, Linux) with heavy MCP use from multiple agent clients. While
verifying the 0.4.0 → 0.5.5 upgrade we root-caused a chain of issues that had
silently reduced MCP-side retrieval to composite-only for ~3 months. Filing as
one report since they compound; happy to split into separate issues if preferred,
and to share sanitised vault metrics or run diagnostics.

## 1. Graph/warmth subsystem resolves the vault by

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aayoawoyemi/Ori-Mnemos/issues/34) · 2026-07-27 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Versioning error.

"ori -V" reports as version 0.4.0 while npm package says it is 0.5.5. The version is hardcoded in:

    - dist/index.js → .version("0.4.0")
    - dist/core/update-check.js → CURRENT_VERSION = "0.4.0"
    - dist/cli/boot.js → returns "0.4.0"
    - dist/cli/serve.js → MCP server version "0.4.0"

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aayoawoyemi/Ori-Mnemos/issues/24) · 2026-05-18 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Wiring LLM enhance() into promote: design questions

I'm working on a patch to wire the `enhance()` method into `runPromote()`. The provider pipeline and prompt are fully implemented but `enhance()` has zero call sites -- the promote flow runs purely deterministic today.

The basic wiring is straightforward: create the provider, call `enhance()` for each note, merge suggestions with user overrides taking priority. I have a working patch for this.

But looking at the config and prompt more closely, I have some design questions before submitting a P

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aayoawoyemi/Ori-Mnemos/issues/18) · 2026-03-30 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### Support retrieving API keys via shell command (api_key_cmd)

API keys configured via `api_key_env` end up in the process environment, where they're visible in `/proc`, inherited by child processes, and can leak through crash dumps or CI logs.

It would be useful to support retrieving the key from a shell command instead, for users who keep secrets in a password manager like `pass` or `1password-cli`.

Something like:

```yaml
llm:
  provider: anthropic
  model: claude-sonnet-4-20250514
  api_key_cmd: "pass anthropic/api-key"
```

The command would be trie

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aayoawoyemi/Ori-Mnemos/issues/3) · 2026-03-21 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Graph cache and surgical graph patch on write in MCP server

**Context**

src/core/graph.ts:9-46 — buildGraph() reads and regex-parses every .md file in notes/ on every call. **No caching, no incremental updates.**

**The MCP server is a long-running process that stays alive for the entire session**. Despite this, every tool call that needs the graph triggers a full rebuild from disk.

src/cli/serve.ts:327-338 — read-only tools `ori_query, ori_query_ranked, ori_query_important, ori_query_fading` each call `buildGraph()` independently on every invocation. 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/aayoawoyemi/Ori-Mnemos/issues/2) · 2026-03-09 · closed · external user · 1 comment

## Firsthand observations

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