Search Memory

io.github.kefyusuf/search-memory-mcp

6/8 checks passed
Runs locally
3 secrets
★ 1 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-25
Health score 56

About Search Memory

Search Memory is an MCP server published by the GitHub account kefyusuf. Free web search and long-term memory for AI assistants. No API keys; data stays local.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package search-memory-mcp at version 1.1.0.

It asks for 3 secrets: BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY, TAVILY_API_KEY and EXA_API_KEY. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 1.1.0 was published on 25 October 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 6 pass, 2 warn, 0 fail, 1 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`SEARCH_PROVIDERS`	No	No	Comma-separated search provider order, for example duckduckgo,marginalia,bing
`CACHE_DB_PATH`	No	No	Path of the local SQLite database for cache, memory, and index
`INGEST_ALLOWED_DIRS`	No	No	Comma-separated directories whose files ingest_document may read; local file reading is off when unset
`SEARXNG_BASE_URL`	No	No	Base URL of a SearXNG instance with JSON output, used by the searxng provider
`BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY`	No	Yes	Optional Brave Search API key; the brave provider then uses the official API instead of scraping
`TAVILY_API_KEY`	No	Yes	Optional Tavily API key; adds the tavily provider with news-topic search and publish dates
`EXA_API_KEY`	No	Yes	Optional Exa API key; adds the exa provider with neural (semantic) web search
`READER_FALLBACK_URL`	No	No	Optional reader service (for example https://markdown.new/) used when a page cannot be fetched directly; sends the page URL to that service

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/kefyusuf/search-memory-mcp
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Warn	Asks for 3 secrets: BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY, TAVILY_API_KEY, EXA_API_KEY
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account kefyusuf
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Warn	Runs at install: postinstall: playwright install chromium \|\| node -e "process.exit(0)"
Code red flags	Pass	Read 74 files in search-memory-mcp@1.1.0: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 74 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 56 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity12 / 40

1 GitHub stars, 561 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-28, last release 2026-10-17, 266 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

3 closed of 3 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks12 / 20

2 warnings, each costing a fifth.

0 forks, 111 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

No Hacker News threads link to its source code.

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.kefyusuf/search-memory-mcp`
Publisher	GitHub account kefyusuf
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account kefyusuf. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	npm `search-memory-mcp` 1.1.0 (stdio)
Version	1.1.0
Published	2026-10-25
Last updated	2026-10-25
Source repository	https://github.com/kefyusuf/search-memory-mcp
Website	None linked
Category	Productivity & notes (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search-memory-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "search-memory-mcp@1.1.0"
      ]
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

We did not run this server, so we don't know what it does when it runs. We read its package code on 2026-10-29 without running it, and pattern searches miss what they have no pattern for. Tool descriptions built at run time were not seen. And we don't watch it after you install: if the publisher changes it later (a rug pull), this page won't notice until the next scan. Treat a pass as "nothing found", not as "safe".

For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-kefyusuf-search-memory-mcp.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.