Knowledge

knowledge is a set of MCP tools and skills for producing better code with fewer tokens. The tools index your code, cloud, logs, and docs into cross-linked graphs and answer questions sized to the question: hybrid code search, call-graph traversal, structural AST search and replace across 31 languages, best-practice patterns with runnable checks, and a graph that keeps thoughts, decisions, tickets, and plans across sessions. The skills run the engineering workflow over those tools, from research through plan, implement, and review. It runs as a local MCP server, so any LLM that speaks MCP can use it.

The retrieval argument is simple. A whole-file read puts text in the context that is not the answer; a fragment read leaves gaps. The index returns the pieces the question asked for, which is where the accuracy and the token savings come from.

What it does

Jira, GitHub Issues, and Asana sync are on the roadmap.

Related MCP server: local-memory-mcp

See it work

Against this repository. Each result is a graph node you can keep walking from.

search({ "queries": ["bisect embedding batch on token overflow"],
         "repo": "knowledge-mcp" })

// internal/embed/voyage.go — Voyage embedder: batches texts under item
//   and token budgets, classifies errors, bisects token-overflow batches
// internal/embed/voyage.go:180 isBatchTokenOverflow — detects batch token
//   overflow by unwrapping LLMError causes

ast({ "operation": "match", "language": "go", "pattern": "defer $X.Close()" })

// 65 matches across 1,560 files in 185ms

Give replace a capture template ("defer safeClose($X)") and it previews the unified diff, then applies atomically. A rewrite that no longer parses is rejected, never written.

thoughts({ "operation": "recall", "query": "voyage batch overflow" })

// 1. Voyage rejects the whole batch on token overflow, not the one long
//    text — bound batches by estimated tokens and bisect on overflow
//    [validated] charges: +2 (bisection test green; overflow retries gone)

That hypothesis was recorded while the bug was being debugged. It comes back in a later session with its evidence attached.

Practices and checks

An agent writes the first thing that compiles unless something in its context says otherwise. A style guide in a wiki is not in its context. A practice graph is.

/ingest-patterns takes a source (a book, a public catalog, a reference site, a PDF) and lands its practices as nodes under a source hub: the pattern, when to use it, a worked example, the reference. The agent searches those beside your code, so "how do we do retries here" returns the established idiom and not a guess. Practices from your own team go in the same way, from a doc or a ticket.

Guidance the agent reads is one half. The other half is rules something can run. Where a practice has a shape, the skill also writes a sister check, and manage_checks is the tool for those:

manage_checks({ "operation": "create", "language": "go",
                "name": "defer-close-inside-a-loop",
                "check_type": "ast_pattern", "severity": "warning",
                "dsl_pattern": "defer $X.Close()",
                "check_where": "{\"inside_pattern\":{\"of\":\"$match\",\"pattern\":\"for $$$_ { $$$_ }\"}}",
                "fixture_bad":  { "name": "…", "summary": "…", "content": "…" },
                "fixture_good": { "name": "…", "summary": "…", "content": "…" } })

One call authors the check and both fixtures, and nothing is written unless the check fires on the bad example and stays silent on the good one. A check that has never been run reads exactly like a passing one to everything downstream, so the gate runs at admission.

manage_checks({ "operation": "run", "repo": "knowledge-mcp", "language": "go",
                "path_prefix": "internal" })

run walks the working tree and leads with one verdict line. The same run is available from the shell as knowledge check run, exiting 0 for clean, 3 for flagged, and 4 for inconclusive, so a check can back a plan criterion or a CI step. Rules with no deterministic expression are stored as llm_only and go to a judgment lane instead of a scan.

The good fixture has to be a near-miss: the same construct as the bad one, placed where it is legitimate. A pair that shares nothing proves nothing. Corpus checks covers that and the other ways a check passes its gate and is still wrong.

Install

macOS (Apple Silicon) or Linux (x86_64 / arm64):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fulminate-io/knowledge-mcp/main/install.sh | sh

The script downloads both binaries (checksum-verified) into ~/.knowledge/bin, then runs knowledge setup. Setup detects an LLM provider, installs the agents and skills for Claude Code and Codex if those CLIs are present, registers the MCP daemon with them, and installs user-level services (launchd or systemd --user) so the graph server (127.0.0.1:15022) and MCP daemon (127.0.0.1:15023) start at login. Everything runs as your user. No sudo anywhere.

Re-running the same line upgrades in place and never touches your config. Windows: manual install. Docker: docker.md.

brew tap fulminate-io/knowledge
brew install knowledge
brew services start knowledge-server   # graph server  127.0.0.1:15022
brew services start knowledge          # MCP daemon    127.0.0.1:15023
knowledge install-claude-assets        # or: install-codex-assets

Run the services as your user, never with sudo. A root LaunchDaemon can't read your login keychain.

Go 1.26+ with CGO enabled (tree-sitter C bindings). This builds the knowledge binary only; knowledge install fetches the matching prebuilt knowledge-server from GitHub releases.

git clone https://github.com/fulminate-io/knowledge-mcp.git
cd knowledge-mcp
CGO_ENABLED=1 go build -o bin/knowledge .
knowledge serve                    # MCP daemon on 127.0.0.1:15023
knowledge start / status / stop    # knowledge-server lifecycle (15022)

First index

Restart your editor so it picks up the MCP server, then from inside the LLM:

collect({ "type": "code", "id": "/absolute/path/to/repo" })

The first pass takes 30s–2min on a typical repo. Tree-sitter chunks the files and the LLM summarizes each node. Later indexes are incremental; only changed files re-summarize.

No credentials are needed to get here. The server prefers a logged-in Claude or Codex CLI on $PATH, then falls back to ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY, or GEMINI_API_KEY.

knowledge doctor diagnoses install and daemon health. Any other MCP client connects at http://127.0.0.1:15023/mcp.

Two optional keys

Both go in ~/.knowledge/config (TOML, auto-created on first run; config wins over the environment):

[credentials]
voyage_api_key = "..."
linear_api_key = "..."

Collectors

A collector is a process that speaks MCP and answers with nodes and edges. The daemon spawns it, calls one tool, and writes the result into a graph of its own, which then gets the same summarize, embed, search, and sync treatment as code. The pre-built ones live in knowledge-contrib, one static binary each:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fulminate-io/knowledge-contrib/main/install.sh | sh -s -- <collector>

The script verifies the archive against the release checksums, places the binary under ~/.knowledge/bin, and registers it with knowledge collector add. Provider credentials go in the daemon's environment, never in the config entry. Each module's README has what it reads, what it produces, and the config entry, so you can skip the script and write the entry yourself.

To write your own, the same repo ships the framework the built-in ones use, in Go, Python, Rust, and TypeScript. Your collector is dialed and registered the same way as these.

Guides

23 MCP tools across ten graph families. The ones you'll touch daily: search, ast, traverse, thoughts, manage_checks, record_decision, create_ticket, assemble, collect. Skills you'll type: /research, /plan, /implement, /ingest-patterns, /retro.

Fulminate Cloud

Knowledge OSS runs entirely local: bring your own LLM, zero credentials, full feature set. If one machine and one developer is your whole setup, the local server is the product, not a trial of the paid one.

Fulminate Cloud is the same graph as a shared team environment. Cloud machines your coding agents run in, one graph the whole team reads and writes, workflows that turn webhooks, cron ticks, and Slack messages into runs, and dashboards published as pages. It tracks every run and agent, keeps usage analytics and audit logs, gates what agents may run with hooks, and supports BYOC when everything has to stay in your own cloud account. All tiers are BYOK. Fulminate never resells tokens.

knowledge login    # browser-PKCE OAuth; token stored in your keychain
knowledge logout   # revoke + clear keychain

Logged in, the daemon serves tool calls from the hosted graph server. Logged out, it runs fully local. A subscription with mcp:knowledge:write unlocks sync: push local graph state up, pull team-visible state down, promote a working copy as the team head.

Status

Pre-1.0, in active development toward the Apache 2.0 OSS launch. Shipping today: the ten-graph MCP server, thought reasoning with DeGroot propagation, 30+ topology analyzers, branch overlays, auto-compaction recovery, tokenless OSS boot, browser-PKCE login with keychain-backed credentials.

Contributing and license

CONTRIBUTING.md has the build rules, test conventions, and architectural constraints. SECURITY.md for reporting vulnerabilities.

Apache 2.0 on OSS launch; see LICENSE. Fulminate Cloud commercial use is separately licensed at fulminate.io/legal.