# Friday

> Self-hosted cognitive memory MCP for coding agents

**Category:** AI Agents  
**Pricing:** open-source  
**URL:** https://github.com/friday-memory/friday  
**GitHub:** https://github.com/friday-memory/friday  
**Added:** 2026-09-18

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## The Hook

Friday is the self-hosted memory layer coding agents talk to over MCP so architecture decisions and preferences survive the next session.

## What's Good

MIT (friday-memory/friday; itskie/friday redirects here). FastAPI + Neo4j-shaped persistent cognitive memory exposed as MCP for Cursor/Claude/VS Code-class agents. Docker Compose path; health/add surfaces documented in-repo. ★~31 — focused local memory server, not a hosted memory SaaS.

## The Catch

Vs Mem0 / Letta / Graphiti: Friday is the self-hosted MCP memory appliance for coding agents, not a multi-tenant memory API or a full agent OS. You operate Neo4j/Compose and embedding/model keys; star count is still early — pin and verify before production trust.

## Verdict

MIT self-hosted memory MCP. Use when coding agents need durable local memory without Mem0 Cloud.