Click on "Deploy Server".
Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.
In the chat, type @ followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@ach-memory Load my context for the billing service and recall recent decisions."
That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.
Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
A governed, engine-neutral access and delivery layer for memory engines, used by coding agents over MCP. The engine remembers; ach-memory decides who may read and write which bank, keeps the journal, scrubs secrets, and delivers a bounded standing context at session start. Hindsight is the first engine.
Status: 0.1.0. Contract in SPEC.md; why it looks like this in
docs/lessons.md.
agent host (Claude Code, Codex)
│ stdio ┌────────────────────────────┐
▼ │ ach-memory (this service) │
ach-memory mcp ── HTTPS/MCP ──▶│ auth → scope → service │──▶ Postgres
(proxy: git origin → slug, │ retain · recall · curation │ users, projects,
auth header) │ standing context │ journal
│ Backend ABC ─ Hindsight │──▶ Hindsight (banks,
└────────────────────────────┘ mental models)retain · recall · reflect · forget · restore · correct ·
delete_memory · list_memories · get_memory · history ·
load_context · get_operation · rename_project.
One MCP endpoint (/mcp/), one health route (/health). No REST data plane.
Related MCP server: Menhir
See docs/hosts.md. Short version:
export ACH_MEMORY_URL=https://api.<domain>/ach-memory/mcp/
export ACH_MEMORY_API_KEY=<your platform key>
claude plugin marketplace add ackstorm/ach-memory && claude plugin install ach-memory@ach-memory
codex plugin marketplace add ackstorm/ach-memory && codex plugin add ach-memory@ach-memory
opencode plugin ach-memory@git+https://github.com/ackstorm/ach-memory.git --global
pi install git:github.com/ackstorm/ach-memoryopencode also installs straight from the service, with no git and no registry — the endpoint serves the running release's own bundle:
opencode plugin https://api.<domain>/ach-memory/plugin --globalThis repository is the plugin bundle: each host reads its own root manifest
(.claude-plugin/, .codex-plugin/, package.json) and gets the one skill,
the one set of hook scripts, and a stdio proxy built from the checkout it just
installed -- so there is no version to pin and nothing of ours to run first.
make up # Postgres + Hindsight (mock LLM) + migrations + API on :8000
make e2e # the same stack, then scripts/mcp-smoke.py over all twelve tools
make test # unit + contract tests against the fake engine (Postgres on :5434)
MEMORY_HINDSIGHT_URL=http://localhost:8888 uv run pytest -m integration tests/backendEvery setting is an environment variable with the MEMORY_ prefix
(src/memory/config.py). The ones a deployment must set:
Variable | Meaning |
| Postgres, |
| engine base URL ( |
| Host header values the MCP transport accepts (421 otherwise) |
| who owns the caller's key: incoming header, resolver URL/header, user and groups fields |
| alternatively, JWKS-verified JWTs |
| operators, matched on the identity provider's subject |
Engine profile (verbatim extraction, types=world recall, semantic floor)
lives in the Hindsight adapter, not in core; see SPEC.md §5.
Subclass memory.backend.base.Backend in src/memory/backend/<name>.py, add
one line to get_backend(), and run the contract suite
(tests/backend/test_contract.py) against it. Core never imports a concrete
adapter.
Helm chart in deploy/helm/ach-memory (image ghcr.io/ackstorm/ach-memory,
chart oci://ghcr.io/ackstorm/charts/ach-memory). Release:
make release-bump VERSION=x.y.z → commit → make release-cut VERSION=x.y.z;
CI publishes the image, the chart and the GitHub release from the tag.
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Hosted MCP memory for coding agents: persistent across sessions, editable markdown, team sharing.
Hosted MCP memory and agent control plane for durable conversations, jobs, and operations.
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