MCP Notes

🧠 MCP Notes

MCP Notes is a powerful memory server that helps AI assistants remember and connect information over time. Think of it as a smart knowledge graph where you can store facts about people, projects, or concepts, link them together, and retrieve them intelligently—perfect for building AI agents with long-term memory.

Whether you're tracking user preferences, maintaining project context, or building relationship maps, MCP Notes provides a structured way to persist, search, and traverse your knowledge graph with confidence scores, timestamps, and rich metadata.

✨ Features

• 🏗️ Entity Management - Create, read, search, and delete entities with types and observations
• 📝 Observation Tracking - Add and remove observations with timestamps, confidence scores, and sources
• 🔗 Relation Management - Create and delete relations between entities to build connections
• 🔍 Knowledge Graph Operations - Read the entire graph, search for specific nodes, or traverse connected entities
• ⏰ Temporal Queries - Query entities by time range using createdAt/updatedAt timestamps
• 🚶 Graph Traversal - Walk relations to find connected entities (multi-hop BFS)
• 📊 Rich Metadata - Support for optional metadata, confidence scores, and source tracking
• 🔄 Auto-Migration - Automatically migrates legacy plain-string observations to rich format on load
• 💾 Persistent Storage - JSON file storage with daily logging for reliability

🚀 Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone <your-repo-url>
cd mcp_notes

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the TypeScript code
npm run build

🎯 Quick Start

Running the Server

npm start

The server runs on stdio and connects to any MCP-compatible client.

Basic Example

{
  "entities": [
    {
      "name": "Alice",
      "entityType": "person",
      "observations": [
        "Alice is a software engineer",
        {
          "content": "Alice lives in San Francisco",
          "confidence": 0.9,
          "source": "user_profile"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Create relations between entities: ``json { "relations": [ { "from": "Alice", "to": "Bob", "relationType": "works with" } ] } ``

🛠️ Available Tools

create_entities

Create multiple new entities in the knowledge graph.

Parameters:

• entities (array): Array of entity objects with:
• name (string): The name of the entity
• entityType (string): The type of the entity
• observations (array): Initial observations (can be strings or objects with content, confidence, source)
• metadata (object, optional): Additional metadata for the entity

add_observations

Add new observations to existing entities.

Parameters:

• observations (array): Array of observation additions with:
• entityName (string): Name of the entity
• contents (array): Observations to add (can be strings or objects with content, confidence, source)

create_relations

Create relations between entities.

Parameters:

• relations (array): Array of relation objects with:
• from (string): Source entity name
• to (string): Target entity name
• relationType (string): Type of relation (use active voice)

delete_entities

Delete entities and their associated relations.

Parameters:

• entityNames (array of strings): Names of entities to delete

delete_observations

Delete specific observations from entities.

Parameters:

• deletions (array): Array of deletion objects with:
• entityName (string): Name of the entity
• observations (array of strings): Observations to delete

delete_relations

Delete relations from the knowledge graph.

Parameters:

• relations (array): Array of relation objects to delete

open_nodes

Retrieve specific entities by name.

Parameters:

• names (array of strings): Entity names to retrieve

read_graph

Read the entire knowledge graph including all entities and relations.

search_nodes

Search for entities matching a query.

Parameters:

• query (string): Search query (matches entity names, types, and observation content)

query_by_time

Query entities and observations by time range using createdAt/updatedAt timestamps.

Parameters:

• since (string, optional): ISO timestamp for start of time range (inclusive)
• until (string, optional): ISO timestamp for end of time range (inclusive)
• limit (number, optional): Maximum number of results to return
• sort (string, optional): Sort order by updatedAt - "asc" or "desc" (default: "desc")

get_recent

Get the most recently updated entities.

Parameters:

• limit (number, optional): Maximum number of recent entities to return (default: 10)

traverse_graph

Traverse the knowledge graph from a starting entity to find connected entities via relations.

Parameters:

• start (string, required): Name of the entity to start traversal from
• depth (number, optional): Number of hops to traverse (default: 1)
• direction (string, optional): Direction of traversal - "out" (outgoing relations), "in" (incoming relations), or "both" (default: "both")

🛠️ Development

# Build
npm run build

# Watch mode for development
npm run dev

Type Definitions

TypeScript types are defined in src/types.ts for:

• Entity (with createdAt, updatedAt, metadata)
• Observation (with content, createdAt, confidence, source)
• Relation
• ObservationAddition
• ObservationDeletion
• RelationDeletion
• KnowledgeGraph
• GraphTraversalResult

📊 Data Model

Observations

Observations are rich objects with metadata: ``typescript interface Observation { content: string; createdAt: string; // ISO timestamp confidence?: number; // 0-1 source?: string; } ``

Entities

Entities include timestamps and optional metadata: ``typescript interface Entity { name: string; entityType: string; observations: Observation[]; createdAt: string; // ISO timestamp updatedAt: string; // ISO timestamp metadata?: Record<string, unknown>; } ``

Auto-Migration

Legacy data with plain-string observations is automatically migrated on load. Plain strings are converted to Observation objects with createdAt set to the current time.

⚙️ Configuration

Add this server to your MCP client configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memory": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/mcp_notes/dist/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

📁 Architecture

• src/index.ts - Main MCP server with tool handlers
• src/memoryService.ts - Core memory service managing the knowledge graph
• src/types.ts - TypeScript type definitions

📄 License

MIT