awareness-memory
Ships with awareness-local: Languages: English | 简体中文 Give your AI agent persistent memory. One command. No account. Works offline. Awareness Local is a local-first MCP memory server for AI coding agents.
Claude Code
$ claude mcp add awareness-memory -- node /Users/edwinhao/Awareness/sdks/local/src/mcp-stdio.mjs
Codex
$ codex mcp add awareness-memory -- node /Users/edwinhao/Awareness/sdks/local/src/mcp-stdio.mjs
Cursor
{ "mcpServers": { "awareness-memory": { "command": "node", "args": [ "/Users/edwinhao/Awareness/sdks/local/src/mcp-stdio.mjs" ] } } }
Add it to mcp.json.
Gemini CLI
$ gemini mcp add awareness-memory node /Users/edwinhao/Awareness/sdks/local/src/mcp-stdio.mjs
GitHub Copilot
$ copilot mcp add awareness-memory -- node /Users/edwinhao/Awareness/sdks/local/src/mcp-stdio.mjs
OpenCode
{ "mcp": { "awareness-memory": { "type": "local", "command": [ "node", "/Users/edwinhao/Awareness/sdks/local/src/mcp-stdio.mjs" ] } } }
Add it to opencode.json.
Windsurf
{ "mcpServers": { "awareness-memory": { "command": "node", "args": [ "/Users/edwinhao/Awareness/sdks/local/src/mcp-stdio.mjs" ] } } }
Add it to mcp_config.json.
From the README
What can you do with awareness-memory?
Semantic vector search (100+ languages)
Cross-device real-time sync
Team collaboration
Memory marketplace
Security report
Not enough data
Known flaws
Not published
Signed build
Not published
Maintained
May 4, 2026
Last push
Licence
MIT
Runs as
Local process
On your machine
Deprecated
Not published
Signals from public registries, not an audit. Checked Nov 15, 2026.
awareness-local README
Awareness Local
Languages: English | 简体中文

Give your AI agent persistent memory. One command. No account. Works offline.
Awareness Local is a local-first MCP memory server for AI coding agents. It gives Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Cline, and other MCP IDEs persistent memory, hybrid semantic + keyword retrieval, and reusable knowledge cards for long-running software projects.
It runs a lightweight daemon on your machine, stores memory as Markdown, indexes recall with SQLite FTS5 + embeddings, and keeps your AI workflow fast, explainable, and offline-ready.
npx @awareness-sdk/setup
That's it. Your AI agent now remembers everything across sessions.
Why Awareness Local
AI coding agents lose context between sessions. Awareness Local provides cross-session memory recall so agents can continue work without re-explaining architecture, past decisions, pending tasks, and implementation constraints.
- Persistent memory for AI coding agents
- Local-first MCP server with offline support
- Hybrid retrieval (keyword + semantic)
- Knowledge card extraction for decisions, solutions, and risks
Quick Start
npx @awareness-sdk/setup
Then open your IDE and start coding. Awareness tools become available for recall, record, and session initialization.
Popular Use Cases
- Long-running codebase migrations across many sessions
- Team handoffs where AI should remember prior implementation context
- Personal coding workflows that need durable preferences and conventions
- Multi-agent setups that share decision history and task memory
FAQ
Does Awareness Local work offline?
Yes. Local mode works fully offline with memory stored on your machine.
Where is data stored?
Memory is stored as Markdown in .awareness/, with a local SQLite index for retrieval.
Do I need a cloud account?
No. Cloud sync is optional and can be enabled later.
Which IDEs are supported?
Any MCP-compatible IDE, including Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Cline, Windsurf, and others.
Navigation
- Benchmark: LongMemEval
- Supported IDEs
- How It Works
- MCP Tools
- Cloud Sync
- SDK & Plugin Ecosystem
Benchmark: LongMemEval (ICLR 2025)
Evaluated on LongMemEval — the industry standard benchmark for long-term conversational memory. 500 human-curated questions across 5 core capabilities.
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║ ║
║ Awareness Memory — LongMemEval Benchmark Results ║
║ ───────────────────────────────────────────────── ║
║ ║
║ Benchmark: LongMemEval (ICLR 2025) ║
║ Dataset: 500 human-curated questions ║
║ Variant: LongMemEval_S (~115k tokens per question) ║
║ ║
║ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║
║ │ │ ║
║ │ Recall@1 77.6% (388 / 500) │ ║
║ │ Recall@3 91.8% (459 / 500) │ ║
║ │ Recall@5 95.6% (478 / 500) ◀ PRIMARY │ ║
║ │ Recall@10 97.4% (487 / 500) │ ║
║ │ │ ║
║ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ║
║ ║
║ Method: Hybrid RRF (BM25 + Semantic Vector Search) ║
║ Embedding: all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (384d) ║
║ LLM Calls: 0 (pure retrieval, no generation cost) ║
║ Hardware: Apple M1, 8GB RAM — 14 min total ║
║ ║
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┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Long-Term Memory Retrieval — R@5 Leaderboard │
│ LongMemEval (ICLR 2025, 500 questions) │
├─────────────────────────────────┬───────────┬───────────────┤
│ System │ R@5 │ Note │
├─────────────────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────┤
│ MemPalace (ChromaDB raw) │ 96.6% │ R@5 only * │
│ ★ Awareness Memory (Hybrid) │ 95.6% │ Hybrid RRF │
│ OMEGA │ 95.4% │ QA Accuracy │
│ Mastra (GPT-5-mini) │ 94.9% │ QA Accuracy │
│ Mastra (GPT-4o) │ 84.2% │ QA Accuracy │
│ Supermemory │ 81.6% │ QA Accuracy │
│ Zep / Graphiti │ 71.2% │ QA Accuracy │
│ GPT-4o (full context) │ 60.6% │ QA Accuracy │
├─────────────────────────────────┴───────────┴───────────────┤
│ * MemPalace 96.6% is Recall@5 only, not QA Accuracy. │
│ Palace hierarchy was NOT used in the evaluation. │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Awareness Memory — R@5 by Question Type │
│ │
│ knowledge-update ████████████████████████████ 100% │
│ multi-session ███████████████████████████▋ 98.5%│
│ single-session-asst ███████████████████████████▌ 98.2%│
│ temporal-reasoning █████████████████████████▊ 94.7%│
│ single-session-user ████████████████████████▎ 88.6%│
│ single-session-pref ███████████████████████▏ 86.7%│
│ │
│ Overall █████████████████████████▉ 95.6%│
│ │
│ ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Ablation Study │ │
│ │ ───────────────────────────────────────── │ │
│ │ Vector-only: 92.6% ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░ │ │
│ │ BM25-only: 91.4% ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░ │ │
│ │ Hybrid RRF: 95.6% ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░ ★ │ │
│ │ Hybrid = +3% over any │ │
│ │ single method alone │ │
│ └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
│ │
│ arxiv.org/abs/2410.10813 awareness.market │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Zero LLM calls. Reproducible benchmark scripts →
What It Does
Before: Every session starts from scratch. You re-explain the codebase, re-justify decisions, watch the agent redo work.
After: Your agent says "I remember you were migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Last session you completed the schema changes and had 2 TODOs remaining..."
Session 1 Session 2
┌─────────────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────────────┐
│ Agent: "What database?" │ │ Agent: "I remember we │
│ You: "PostgreSQL..." │ │ chose PostgreSQL for │
│ Agent: "What framework?"│ → │ JSON support. You had │
│ You: "FastAPI..." │ │ 2 TODOs left. Let me │
│ (repeat every session) │ │ continue from there." │
└─────────────────────────┘ └─────────────────────────┘
Supported IDEs (13+)
| IDE | Auto-detected | Plugin |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | ✅ | awareness-memory |
| Cursor | ✅ | via MCP |
| Windsurf | ✅ | via MCP |
| OpenClaw | ✅ | @awareness-sdk/openclaw-memory |
| Cline | ✅ | via MCP |
| GitHub Copilot | ✅ | via MCP |
| Codex CLI | ✅ | via MCP |
| Kiro | ✅ | via MCP |
| Trae | ✅ | via MCP |
| Zed | ✅ | via MCP |
| JetBrains (Junie) | ✅ | via MCP |
| Augment | ✅ | via MCP |
| AntiGravity (Jules) | ✅ | via MCP |
How It Works
Your IDE / AI Agent
│
│ MCP Protocol (localhost:37800)
▼
┌────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Awareness Local Daemon │
│ │
│ Markdown files → Human-readable, git-friendly
│ SQLite FTS5 → Fast keyword search
│ Local embedding → Semantic search (optional: npm i @huggingface/transformers)
│ Knowledge cards → Auto-extracted decisions, solutions, risks
│ Web Dashboard → http://localhost:37800/
│ │
│ Cloud sync (optional) │
│ → One-click device-auth │
│ → Bidirectional sync │
│ → Semantic vector search │
│ → Team collaboration │
└────────────────────────────────────┘
Your Data
All memories stored as Markdown files in .awareness/ — human-readable, editable, git-friendly:
.awareness/
├── memories/
│ ├── 2026-03-22_decided-to-use-postgresql.md
│ ├── 2026-03-22_fixed-auth-bug.md
│ └── ...
├── knowledge/
│ ├── decisions/postgresql-over-mysql.md
│ └── solutions/auth-token-refresh.md
├── tasks/
│ └── open/implement-rate-limiting.md
└── index.db (search index, auto-rebuilt)
Features
MCP Tools (available in your IDE)
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
awareness_init | Load session context — recent knowledge, tasks, rules |
awareness_recall | Search memories — progressive disclosure (summary → full) |
awareness_record | Save decisions, code changes, insights — with knowledge extraction |
awareness_lookup | Fast lookup — tasks, knowledge cards, session history, risks |
awareness_get_agent_prompt | Get agent-specific prompts for multi-agent setups |
Progressive Disclosure (Smart Token Usage)
Instead of dumping everything into context, Awareness uses a two-phase recall:
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Questions about awareness-memory.
- Which coding agents can use awareness-memory?
- awareness-memory works in any agent that reads an MCP config file: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf. Each agent reads it from its own file; this page names the file for each one.
- How do I add awareness-memory to Claude Code?
- Run this in your terminal: claude mcp add awareness-memory -- node /Users/edwinhao/Awareness/sdks/local/src/mcp-stdio.mjs

