SAIHM MCP Server

Portable memory for AI agents. Your agent remembers what matters — across sessions, across models, and across vendors — and you can share it, revoke it, or erase it for good.

· Apache-2.0

This package is the standards client: eight memory tools any MCP agent — Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, or your own — can call. It carries no cryptography of its own. It speaks the publicly documented SAIHM memory protocol over plain MCP and reaches whichever SAIHM operator you point it at.

Which package do I want?

• You run, or subscribe to, your own SAIHM operator — this one. Being crypto-free and dependency-light is the point: it drops into a custodial operator that performs the cryptography server-side. → Install · Configure

• You just want memory working, free, in about a minute — use @saihm/mcp-server-pro and ask your agent to "Join SAIHM". It seals cells on your own machine, so it can use the hosted non-custodial service — which this crypto-free package cannot. No card. → Free trial

Want to watch it work first? Runnable demos across every major model, offline, no account — See it run.

What this is

A Model Context Protocol server that exposes eight tools any MCP-capable AI agent (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, custom agents) can call to gain a persistent, encrypted memory layer the user owns:

• saihm_remember — store an encrypted memory cell

• saihm_recall — retrieve and decrypt your memories

• saihm_forget — true cryptographic erasure (GDPR Art. 17)

• saihm_status — your protocol-runtime stats and storage tier dashboard

• saihm_share / saihm_revoke_share — selectively share a memory with another agent or user

• saihm_governance_propose / saihm_governance_vote — protocol governance; not enabled by default, so expect an error unless your operator has turned it on

Each tool forwards to a SAIHM operator endpoint that runs the full protocol stack on COTI V2 mainnet. The server itself holds no crypto, no storage, and no protocol runtime — those live behind the operator endpoint.

Related MCP server: SharedContext

Tool reference

Each tool carries MCP annotations (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) and a human-readable title, so MCP hosts can gate confirmations and agents can select the right tool at reasoning time.

Companion package

This package speaks MCP and holds no cryptography, so it always needs an operator endpoint and token. Two companions cover the rest:

• @saihm/mcp-server-pro — a drop-in MCP server that performs the client-side cryptography itself and can self-onboard, including the free tier. This is the package to use if you have no endpoint yet — see Free trial.

• @saihm/client-pro — the same client-side cryptography as a library, for embedding in your own application: post-quantum sealing, authenticated sharing, and provable erasure performed on your own machine so the operator stays blind.

See it run

Runnable, one-command demos ground a memory you own in every major model — Claude, GPT, DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM — then prove you can erase it, alongside drop-in adapters for LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, and LangGraph. Each runs offline in about a minute; no account needed.

• Live demos: https://citw2.github.io/saihm-demos/

• demo-claude-code wires this server into Claude Code and Cursor as an MCP server.

Measured — up to ~86% fewer context tokens. Most agents re-send their entire transcript every turn, so context spend grows ~O(N²) over a session; recalling a bounded set of memory cells instead cut input tokens by 62.8%–85.9% across a realistic multi-session coding task. The benchmark is open, offline, and deterministic — reproduce the number rather than trust it:

git clone https://github.com/citw2/saihm-token-benchmark
cd saihm-token-benchmark && npm install && node benchmark.mjs

Install

npm install @saihm/mcp-server
# or run directly without install:
npx @saihm/mcp-server

Configure

The server needs two env vars:

SAIHM_ENDPOINT_URL=https://operator.example.com/mcp
SAIHM_AUTH_HEADER=Bearer <token-issued-by-your-operator>

Don't have an endpoint and token yet? They're issued by a SAIHM operator. This package is deliberately crypto-free, so it needs a custodial operator — one that performs cryptography server-side and returns plaintext.

The hosted SAIHM service at https://saihm.coti.global is not one. It is non-custodial by design: it stores only ciphertext and never holds your keys, so cells sealed there can only be opened by a client that holds them. To use the hosted service — including the free trial (sign in with GitHub, no card) — use @saihm/mcp-server-pro, which seals and opens on your own machine. See Free trial and Join SAIHM below.

Use this package against a custodial operator you run or subscribe to. Until one is configured, the tools have nowhere to reach and will return an error.

• SAIHM_ENDPOINT_URL — the endpoint of the custodial SAIHM operator you run or subscribe to. Not the hosted service at https://saihm.coti.global, which is non-custodial — see the note above.

• SAIHM_AUTH_HEADER — the Authorization header value the operator expects (typically a Bearer <token> issued to you after key-bound enrolment). The server is authentication-agnostic and never transmits raw private keys; the operator's enrolment flow keeps your signing key on your machine.

Both are read from the process environment. This package loads no .env file — it has no dotenv dependency and never reads configuration from disk — so set them in the env block of your MCP host's server configuration, or export them in the shell that launches the server. If you keep them in a .env for your own convenience, source it yourself before launching, and keep it out of version control.

Free trial (sign in with GitHub)

Want to test SAIHM on real infrastructure before you pay? Start a free trial — for testing purposes, no card — by proving you're a unique person once through a GitHub device sign-in. It runs through the non-custodial @saihm/mcp-server-pro client, which seals cells on your own machine so the operator stays blind.

First generate your master secret — it never leaves your machine, and it is the only key to your memory:

openssl rand -hex 32 > saihm-master.key && chmod 600 saihm-master.key

Then activate:

SAIHM_ENDPOINT_URL=https://saihm.coti.global/mcp \
SAIHM_MASTER_SECRET_FILE=./saihm-master.key \
SAIHM_TIER=FREE \
  npx -y @saihm/mcp-server-pro free-join

It prints a short code and a link: open https://github.com/login/device in your browser and enter the code. The sign-in stays in your browser — this client never sees or holds your GitHub token; it is exchanged server-side and kept ephemeral. When free-join returns, start the server normally (drop free-join) and it self-onboards on the free trial. No card, and nothing to cancel — it's a fixed, one-time allowance, not an auto-renewing subscription.

Ready for production? Upgrade in place to a monthly plan — same signing key, same memories, no re-onboarding.

Wire into Claude Code

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "saihm": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@saihm/mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "SAIHM_ENDPOINT_URL": "https://operator.example.com/mcp",
        "SAIHM_AUTH_HEADER": "Bearer <token>"
      },
      "timeout": 60
    }
  }
}

Keep timeout, and keep the block as strict JSON with no trailing commas. Hosts that don't recognise timeout ignore it, but Cline allows a server only 1.5 s to start — too short for npx to resolve and launch a package — and a server that misses the deadline is skipped silently, with no error in the chat.

Tell your agent to use it

Wiring the server in makes the tools available; it does not make an agent reach for them. Say this once, and keep it in whatever persistent instructions your agent already reads:

Liberally use SAIHM protocol to maximize token economy. Use my SAIHM memory from now on. At the start of each session, recall what you already know about me. When I tell you something worth keeping — my preferences, decisions, or ongoing projects — remember it. To confirm it works right now: remember that I wired up SAIHM today, then recall it back to me.

Hosts that support MCP prompts can load the same rules on demand instead of pasting them: the server ships a saihm_session_bootstrap prompt carrying the full store, recall, share and erase guidance, fetched only when it is asked for rather than on every session.

Why this is the token-economical setting. Advertising the tools costs a fixed amount once per session, whether or not the agent uses them. Recall is what earns it back: one saihm_recall that replaces re-explaining your project, your preferences or last week's decisions saves more than the advertisement costs, and the saving compounds the longer the session runs and the more sessions you keep. An agent that never calls the tools pays the cost and collects none of the return — which is why the instruction above is worth setting explicitly rather than hoping the agent infers it.

What gets persisted, where

The server itself persists nothing. The operator endpoint runs the full protocol stack: cells are encrypted under a per-cell DEK, sealed by a per-agent KEK, persisted to the operator's configured durable storage, and audited on COTI V2 mainnet. See the operator's documentation for tier details, and Storage is the operator's responsibility (by design) below.

Storage is the operator's responsibility (by design)

For operators — read this first. SAIHM does not hard-wire your durable storage to any single provider, and it does not silently provision storage for you. Choosing and configuring where cells are persisted is your job, on purpose. This is a deliberate design choice for operator convenience and data sovereignty — not a missing feature. If memory writes fail with a storage error, it almost always means the backend has not been configured yet.

Why it works this way:

• Provider sovereignty. You decide where your tenants' encrypted cells live. The protocol never locks you to one vendor or one network.

• Local-first, then deep-archive. A typical operator routes writes to a local IPFS (Kubo) node first — fast, authoritative, and under your own control — and then asynchronously to a Filecoin deep-archive provider such as Pinata, Synapse, or Lighthouse. The same content addressing spans both tiers.

• Your memory and your tenants' take the same path. Whatever backend you configure serves both the operator's own memory and every tenant's — there is no separate hidden sink hard-coded to one provider.

What you configure (your operator deployment guide lists the exact settings):

• a reachable IPFS / Kubo endpoint (a local node is recommended) for the authoritative low-latency tier, and

• credentials for at least one Filecoin / IPFS pinning provider for durable deep-archive.

If neither is configured, the endpoint has nowhere durable to put cells and will reject writes rather than lose data. That refusal is intentional.

Prefer not to run storage yourself? Join SAIHM.

You have two paths, and either is fine:

1. Run your own operator endpoint and configure the storage backend as described above — full sovereignty, your infrastructure.

2. Join the hosted SAIHM operator and let it provide durable storage for you. It runs blind / non-custodial: paired with client-side sealing (see @saihm/client-pro and @saihm/mcp-server-pro), it only ever stores ciphertext and never holds your keys — so you get managed storage without giving up custody. Enrol via Join SAIHM at https://saihm.coti.global (a paid hosted service).

Reporting engine

A reporting library is bundled as a sub-export, so operators can compose the eight MCP calls into bespoke reports with their own tooling (no extra dependency, no extra service):

import {
  validateBespokeTemplate,
  registerTemplate,
  generateRegistryAttestation,
  StubPublicRegistry,
  InMemoryReportingRuntime,
  GDPR_ART15_FIELDS,
  REGISTRY_ATTESTATION_FIELDS,
  type BespokeReportTemplate,
} from "@saihm/mcp-server/reporting";

The package is ESM-only — "type": "module", and the exports map declares an import condition with no require one. From a CommonJS project require("@saihm/mcp-server/reporting") therefore fails with ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED, which reads as though the sub-export does not exist; it does, and the module system is the reason. Both entry points behave this way — the root and /reporting alike. A newer Node does not help: current Node 20.x can require() an ES module, but that only takes effect once a require condition matches, and this package declares none, so the failure is the same on every supported version. Use import, or load it from CJS with a dynamic await import().

What it covers

• Field universe (FIELD_UNIVERSE) — 280 fields (262 framework + 18 ledger). Templates that project a field outside this set are rejected at validation. Check the split before you plan against the count: the 12 GDPR Art.15, 11 GDPR Art.17 and 18 ledger fields are verbatim canonical names with sub-clause citations, and the other 239 — SOC 2 Type 1 and 2, ISO 27001, and all four AML sub-prefixes — are deterministic structural placeholders (iso27001_F01, aml_ctr_item_01, and so on) that you map to your own canonical names. They are enforced projection slots, not a regulatory enumeration, so selecting iso27001 gets you 31 validated slots rather than 31 named ISO 27001 fields. Replacing them with verbatim names against the primary sources is future work.

• Bespoke template schema — zod validator + universe-membership check + scope/cap enforcement.

• Authorization path validators — 4 paths: public / self / operator-self / operator-for-downstream. These check structure — shape, hex formats, replay windows, kind-vs-auth coupling. Signature verification is done by callbacks you inject; see Wiring signature verifiers before using them to gate anything.

• Receipt emission — 6 sub-kinds (report_generated / report_rejected / template_registered / template_superseded / erasure_chain_broken / rate_limit_exceeded) under a stable, domain-separated receipt namespace.

• Framework smoke — registry-attestation (public auth) for end-to-end plumbing verification.

Constraints

• Every fieldProjections[] entry MUST be in FIELD_UNIVERSE.

• scope.customerIdHashes 64-hex; max 10,000 per template.

• scope.timeRange window ≤ 366 days.

• fieldProjections length 1–200.

• framework ∈ {gdpr-art-15, gdpr-art-17, soc2-t1, soc2-t2, iso27001, aml, audit-export, billing-history, registry-attestation}.

• format ∈ {pdfa3, json, csv}.

Worked example

const template: BespokeReportTemplate = {
  templateId: "acme-q1-summary",
  templateVersion: 1,
  operatorIdHash: "ab".repeat(32),
  scope: {
    customerIdHashes: ["cd".repeat(32)],
    timeRange: { from: "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z", to: "2026-04-01T00:00:00Z" },
  },
  framework: "gdpr-art-15",
  fieldProjections: [GDPR_ART15_FIELDS[0], GDPR_ART15_FIELDS[1]],
  format: "pdfa3",
};
const v = validateBespokeTemplate(template);
if (!v.valid) throw new Error(v.errors.join(", "));

const runtime = new InMemoryReportingRuntime(); // replace with your audit-ledger runtime
const reg = await registerTemplate(template, runtime);
if (reg.ok) console.log("registered:", reg.templateHash);

In production, replace InMemoryReportingRuntime with a runtime that persists audit payloads to your operator's audit ledger.

Wiring signature verifiers

The validators do not verify signatures themselves. Cryptography is injected, so the package can stay EVM-free and let you choose your own libraries — but that means the default posture is deliberate and must not be mistaken for enforcement:

• With no verifier wired, the validators are shape-only. They check structure and return ok: true without any signature having been checked. This is a legitimate smoke-test posture; it is not authorization. Do not gate a disclosure on a validator result until you have injected verifiers.

• Unverified results say so — with one of three markers. A path that returns ok: true without a signature having been checked appends a marker to its chainSummary, which generateRegistryAttestation copies into the receipt as authChainSummary, so a smoke run stays distinguishable from a verified disclosure after the fact. self and operator-self append /UNVERIFIED-shape-only; operator-for-downstream reports its two halves separately as /operator-sig-unverified and /customer-sig-unverified. Audit with the exported chainSummaryIsUnverified() rather than matching a substring by hand — a case-sensitive substring test for the upper-case marker matches only the first of the three and reads a wholly unverified downstream disclosure as verified.

• Once you wire any verifier, every path that cannot be covered is refused. Wiring any one of the three callbacks is what distinguishes a live deployment from a smoke run, so from that point on a path whose own verifier is missing is rejected instead of returned as shape-only. On self the caller supplies surface and surface selects the verifier (web → verifyEip712, mcp → verifyMlDsa), so wiring only one means a request naming the other surface is refused — otherwise the caller could pick the surface you left unwired and skip verification entirely. operator-self and the operator half of operator-for-downstream both require verifyMlDsa on the same terms: wire verifyEip712 alone and every operator-path request is refused rather than authorized unchecked. The one deliberate exception is the customer half of a customer-grant, which stays a marker rather than a refusal because grants may be authenticated out of band — see verifyCustomerGrant, and expect /customer-sig-unverified in the chainSummary when you leave it undefined.

• Sign the same bytes this package verifies. selfChallengeMessage, operatorSelfChallengeMessage, operatorDownstreamMessage and customerGrantMessage are exported for exactly this: each path is domain-tagged, and a signature over anything else will not verify.

Use pure-crypto libraries for the verifiers (@noble/curves for EIP-712, @noble/post-quantum for FIPS 204 ML-DSA) — the package itself bundles no EVM tooling.

const verifiers: AuthVerifiers = {
  verifyMlDsa: async (signature, message, publicKeyHash) => {
    /* your FIPS 204 verify over exactly `message` */
  },
};
const result = await validateAuthForKind("audit-export", auth, verifiers);
if (!result.ok) throw new Error(result.reason);
if (chainSummaryIsUnverified(result.chainSummary)) throw new Error("not actually verified");

Security

The server enforces a small set of defaults so misconfiguration cannot leak the Authorization header in transit:

• HTTPS-only endpoints, held across the whole call. SAIHM_ENDPOINT_URL must use https://. Plain http:// is rejected at construction time, except for 127.0.0.1 and localhost (so a local operator endpoint works during development). Because that check covers the configured URL and nothing past it, requests also set redirect: 'error' — an endpoint cannot redirect the call, and the request body with it, to a host that was never validated.

• Per-call abort window. Each request runs under an AbortController that aborts after 30s, preventing a hung endpoint from starving the MCP server.

• Response-size cap. 16 MB, enforced twice. A Content-Length over the cap is rejected before the body is read at all; independently, the body is measured while it streams and the read is aborted the moment it exceeds the cap. The cap therefore does not depend on the sender declaring an honest Content-Length, or any at all.

• No header echo. Authorization is never included in thrown error messages or stdout.

• No configuration or user data read from disk. Configuration flows entirely through env vars, and nothing is ever written to disk. The package opens exactly one file: its own package.json, once at startup, so serverInfo.version matches the published version (falling back to 0.0.0-dev if it cannot be read). No credential, cell, or user-data path touches the filesystem.

• Zero EVM tooling. No ethers, no eth_*, no Solidity. If operators inject signature verifiers via AuthVerifiers, they should use pure-crypto libraries (@noble/curves, @noble/post-quantum).

Trust model: this client trusts whatever endpoint the operator configures. Cell IDs, audit anchors, and report receipts returned from that endpoint are surfaced to the agent verbatim — operators are the authority for content shown via saihm_recall. Verifying receipts against COTI V2 mainnet anchors is out of scope for this server; consume the cellId and auditCellId fields and verify against your own SAIHM mainnet read path.

For distribution integrity, each release carries the npm registry signature; verify with npm audit signatures (and inspect npm view @saihm/mcp-server --json | jq .dist).

Dependencies

The published npm package has a minimal runtime surface:

No copyleft, no proprietary dependencies. Cryptographic primitives at the operator-endpoint layer (ML-DSA-65 / Ed25519 / key derivation) are not bundled into this MCP server; operators implementing the protocol stack are recommended to use @noble/post-quantum and @noble/curves (MIT) rather than rolling custom code.

Achievements

• OpenSSF Best Practices Passing badge — project 12898, 100% Passing criteria (2026-05-19). https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/12898

• IETF — draft-saihm-memory-protocol-01 (2026-05-27) was submitted to the Independent Submission Stream; on 2026-07-25 the ISE concluded its consideration and released it from the queue (datatracker stream now None), directing the work toward IETF working-group activity (the agentproto effort). It is not an Internet Standard, is not endorsed by the IETF, and has no formal standing in the IETF standards process. The -01 draft remains available on the datatracker as the current reference text. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-saihm-memory-protocol/

• npm registry — releases from 0.3.6 (2026-06-30) onward are published from GitHub Actions over OIDC trusted publishing and carry an npm sigstore provenance attestation; 0.3.6–0.3.10 all do, and the ten earlier versions (0.1.0–0.3.5), published by hand, do not — see HARDENING.md §"Distribution integrity", which also records that no release tag is signed. 0.3.4 (2026-06-22) adds a conspicuous "Storage is the operator's responsibility (by design)" section — documenting BYO storage and the Join-SAIHM hosted, non-custodial option. 0.3.3 (2026-06-22) was a documentation release that states the Independent-Submission status precisely (no implied IETF endorsement) and cross-references the companion package @saihm/client-pro. 0.3.2 (2026-06-22) corrected the documented operator-endpoint path to /mcp (the canonical SAIHM_ENDPOINT_URL path) across the README and client comments. 0.3.1 (2026-05-28) was a metadata patch that sources the MCP serverInfo.version from package.json (was hardcoded "0.1.0" from 0.1.0 through 0.3.0). 0.3.0 (also 2026-05-28) aligned the saihm_status response shape with draft-saihm-memory-protocol-01 §3.4 (full eight-field schema: prs, bfsi, bfsi_window_start_ts, bfsi_R, bfsi_M, shards, contracts, governance). 0.2.0 (also 2026-05-28) aligned the cell-tuple response shape with §2.1; The OpenSSF Best Practices Passing badge was achieved on 2026-05-19 alongside the governance and assurance files; those files first reached npm in 0.2.0 (2026-05-28), as the 0.1.3 version they were prepared under was never published.

• MCP Registry / Glama — server listed for discovery (2026-05-16).

Roadmap

A 12-month roadmap is maintained in the project's AAIF proposal and is published at https://saihm.coti.global/roadmap. Near-term tracks:

• 2026-Q2 (closed — one gap carried forward) — Of the OpenSSF Silver pursuit, governance, code-of-conduct, DCO sign-off, coverage tooling and the assurance case all landed. Release-tag signing did not; GOVERNANCE.md §"Releases" and HARDENING.md §"Distribution integrity" both record it as an open gap, and it is carried into the Silver track below.

• 2026-Q3 — First 2–3 external organization deployments; formal AAIF Project Proposal submission when adoption blockers clear.

• 2026-Q4 — NIST AI RMF crosswalk public review; EU AI Act compliance-checklist generator. OpenSSF Silver award (target).

• 2027-Q1 — v1.0 reference implementation. The specification's standards path is open: the ISE route closed on 2026-07-25, and the intent is to re-anchor the normative reference on an IETF working-group document once one exists that can be cited. No publication date is being claimed for that, because none is in the project's gift.

Support

SAIHM is developed and maintained by a solo founder. If it's useful to you or your organization, please consider sponsoring the project — it funds continued protocol, client, and open-standards work and keeps this open reference implementation maintained.

License

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE.

Project

• Site: https://saihm.coti.global

• Issue tracker: https://github.com/SAIHM-Admin/saihm-mcp/issues

• Security: see SECURITY.md for private vulnerability disclosure

• Contributing: see CONTRIBUTING.md and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

• Governance: see GOVERNANCE.md

• Changelog: see CHANGELOG.md