Privacy and safety
Where your information lives
Everything is stored in one file on your computer, in a folder called .memo-mcp in your
home folder. Only your user account can open that folder. There is no cloud copy, no account
and no sync.
What leaves your computer
Almost nothing. The first time memo-mcp starts, it downloads a language model of about 140 MB from Hugging Face, a public model library. That is the only time it contacts the internet. After that it works fully offline.
memo-mcp itself never visits websites. When you ask Claude to save a web page, Claude fetches it and hands over the text.
There is no telemetry, no usage reporting and no analytics.
Two things to be aware of
- The memory file is not encrypted. Anyone who can open files in your home folder can read it. Do not store passwords or secrets in it. If you saved one by mistake, remove it completely; see Forgetting things.
- Claude sees what it saves and searches. The words go through Claude, as everything in a conversation does. memo-mcp adds no extra exposure, but it does not hide anything from Claude either.
Safety rules built in
- Claude cannot vouch for itself. Only a person can raise an item’s trust. See Trust.
- Claude cannot delete your records. It can only remove what Claude saved.
- Nothing is silently overwritten. Changes create new versions, and the old ones stay in history.
- The browser view cannot change anything, and it is only reachable from your own computer.
- The optional activity log is off by default. If you turn it on, it records which tools were used and how long they took, but never the text you saved or read.
Backing up and moving
Your memory is a single file, so backing it up is copying it. See Questions and troubleshooting for moving it to another computer.