Engram for VS Code

io.github.devinmlowe/engram

Cognitive memory for coding agents: hybrid recall, remember/forget, knowledge graph, nightly dreams.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Engram in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "engram-db-path",
      "description": "ENGRAM_DB_PATH",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "engram-mcp-port",
      "description": "ENGRAM_MCP_PORT",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "engram-mcp-token",
      "description": "ENGRAM_MCP_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "engram-mcp-standalone",
      "description": "ENGRAM_MCP_STANDALONE",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "engram": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@devinmlowe/engram"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ENGRAM_DB_PATH": "${input:engram-db-path}",
        "ENGRAM_MCP_PORT": "${input:engram-mcp-port}",
        "ENGRAM_MCP_TOKEN": "${input:engram-mcp-token}",
        "ENGRAM_MCP_STANDALONE": "${input:engram-mcp-standalone}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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