Plur MCP Server - install, status & alternatives [2026]

01 · Install Plur

before you install - you'll need

The README does not document required environment variables for a basic install.

Claude Code

claude mcp add plur-ai-plur -- npx -y @plur-ai/mcp

Claude Desktop / Cursor / VS Code - add to config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "plur-ai-plur": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@plur-ai/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Same JSON for Cursor. For VS Code, rename the top-level key from `mcpServers` to `servers`.

Using another client? Same JSON, different key

Claude Desktop · mcpServers

Cursor · mcpServers

VS Code · servers

Windsurf · mcpServers

Zed · context_servers

Cline · mcpServers

Roo Code · mcpServers

Continue · mcpServers

LibreChat · mcpServers

Gemini CLI · mcpServers

Codex CLI · mcp_servers

Full setup guides: every client.

02 · Evidence

Security posture

What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.

runs as local process (stdio) - runs on your machine with your user's permissions

license Apache-2.0 - declared in the repository

npm package @plur-ai/mcp - published under the repo owner's npm scope (@plur-ai)

registry namespace io.github.plur-ai is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner

03 · What Plur can do

Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.

What you can build

With this server connected, an agent can retrieve relevant memories - hybrid (BM25 + embeddings) by default, select engrams for current task within token budget, move an existing engram to another scope - personal → team, or back, and query episode history by time, agent, or channel.

The 15 tools it gives your agent

Extracted from the project's README - what plur lets an agent do.

plur_learn: - Store a correction, preference, or convention
plur_learn_batch: - Store many engrams in one call (batch dedup + per-item failure isolation)
plur_recall: - Retrieve relevant memories - hybrid (BM25 + embeddings) by default; mode:"keyword" for BM25-only
plur_inject_hybrid: - Select engrams for current task within token budget
plur_feedback: - Rate relevance (trains quality over time)
plur_forget: - Retire a memory (activation decays, eventually pruned)
plur_rescope: - Move an existing engram to another scope - personal → team, or back
plur_session_scope: - Change the session's default write scope mid-session
plur_capture: - Record an event - incident, resolution, session milestone
plur_timeline: - Query episode history by time, agent, or channel
plur_ingest: - Extract engrams from text automatically
plur_sync: - Sync via git. personal remotes mirror everything (use a private repo); shared remotes receive only shared-scope, non-private engrams

show all 15 tools

plur_status: - Check system health and engram counts
plur_receipt: - Counted, local report of what your memory retrieved for you
plur_outbox: - Inspect (and retry) team writes queued while their store was unreachable

Latest releases

v0.18.0 · 2026-08-18

Your agents' memory, on a dashboard. · Open it: plur dashboard · Recall stats and written-per-day · Also inside DeepSeek Harness · plur migrate heals stale hashes · The memory dashboard. plur dashboard opens a local…

v0.17.2 · 2026-08-04

Chinese search works - found and fixed by skyeryg. · Chinese text is searchable · BM25 saw no Han at all · Postgres guards stale tokens · Stale stores self-heal · Fixed · Chinese text is now indexed for BM25 (#780…

v0.17.1 · 2026-08-03

Learning something no longer reads your whole memory first. · Changed - performance · learn() and feedback() stop loading the whole corpus (#827, #828, (#829)): learn() read every · engram twice before writing one…

04 · Who maintains Plur

plur is maintained by plur-ai. It's the only MCP server we track from this author; the repo dates to Mar 2026.

05 · Facts

repository: github.com/plur-ai/plur
category: memory - ranked #3 of 259 actively-maintained memory servers as of 2026-08-25.
release cadence: 10+ releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-08-18)
registry: io.github.plur-ai/plur (active, first published 2026-07-01 · 10 versions)
packages: npm:@plur-ai/mcp

06 · Plur FAQ

Is Plur still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-08-25, its last commit was 2026-08-23 and it shipped 10+ releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

What can Plur do?

With this server connected, an agent can retrieve relevant memories - hybrid (BM25 + embeddings) by default, select engrams for current task within token budget, move an existing engram to another scope - personal → team, or back, and query episode history by time, agent, or channel.

How do I install Plur?

Run `npx -y @plur-ai/mcp`. The README does not document required environment variables for a basic install. You can also paste the ready-made client config above.

Does Plur run locally?

Yes - it's a stdio server: it runs on your machine (via npx) with your user's permissions. Your data stays local unless the server itself calls external APIs.

07 · Alternatives to Plur

Alternatives to Plur

Maintained memory servers if Plur isn't the fit.

Pairs well with

Servers that cover what Plur doesn't - only shown when the pairing reason fits the companion.

head to head · Codebase Memory vs Plur · Memorix vs Plur · Plur vs Superlocalmemory

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