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DimensionRemem MCP ServerLocal-first persistent memory for coding agents: automatic capture, distillation, and recall.Context7Upstash's official server providing up-to-date third-party library docs for AI coding assistants
FMRS66 / 100 · C80 / 100 · B
Reliability9 / 2014 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance14 / 2017 / 20
Documentation18 / 2015 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2018 / 20
Best for
  • Developers using Claude Code or Codex CLI long-term
  • Teams needing searchable, auditable, project-scoped memory
  • Users who want data to stay local (SQLite/SQLCipher)
  • Developers using fast-moving frameworks/libraries worried about the AI suggesting stale code
  • Scenarios wanting zero-config documentation lookup
Not for
  • Cursor users (v1 lacks session-init injection and automatic capture)
  • Anyone needing hosted or team-shared memory services
  • Users wanting a zero-install, no-local-binary solution
  • Looking up internal/private codebase documentation (Context7 targets publicly published open-source libraries)
  • Cases needing very high coverage of obscure, niche libraries (coverage depends on what Context7's platform has indexed)
Required permissions
  • Reads/writes the ~/.remem/ data directory and encrypted database
  • Modifies Claude Code / Codex / Cursor config files to register hooks and the MCP server
  • Calls the configured LLM API in the background for summarization and distillation (incur token costs)
  • Optional local REST API binds only to 127.0.0.1 and requires Bearer token auth
  • Usable without an API key (subject to a free-tier rate limit); CONTEXT7_API_KEY is an optional credential for higher quota
  • Read-only documentation lookup — no code execution or local filesystem access involved
Risks and side effects
  • Background memory summarization via external LLMs incurs ongoing token costs
  • Cursor integration is v1: automatic capture and session-init are not enabled, and config updates are not cross-file atomic
  • Stores project and user context; accidental secret-like content relies on built-in redaction scans and suppression tooling
  • Command enforcement (block mode) is Claude Code only; explicitly unsupported on Codex
  • The free tier has limited quota — high-frequency use may hit rate limits
  • Documentation content comes from Context7's platform index, so its accuracy and freshness depend on that platform's crawl cadence
Supported clientsClaude Code, OpenAI Codex CLI, CursorClaude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Cline, Amp
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