Engram

MIT persistent agent memory — MCP, CLI, TUI, SQLite

AI Agents / Memory & Evals · OSS/MIT · 7.4k

Reviewed 2026-09-15 · last push 2026-10-18 · repo checked 2026-10-19

What's Good

MIT (Gentleman-Programming/engram). Single binary, zero deps story. Local-first memory you can also point at cloud paths when you want sync. MCP + CLI + TUI so Cursor/Claude Code/Codex-class tools share one brain. Site at engram.gentlemanprogramming.com.

The Catch

Vs Mem0 / Letta / full agent frameworks: Engram is the memory primitive (store + retrieve + surfaces), not an orchestration framework or coding agent. “local or cloud” branding means optional hosted/sync gravity — day-one stays OSS you run. You still decide what gets written and when.

Verdict

MIT agent memory primitive. MCP/CLI/TUI on SQLite; not a full agent framework.

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