Zekra
Overview
Description from the maker (original English)
Long-term memory and a knowledge graph for AI agents: recall, notes, secrets and data sources.
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- Our basic checksi4 of 4 passedChecked from public information; code not scanned yet
- UsageiEarly★ 1
What you can do with it
We have not written a plain-language summary for this one yet. Below are the facts we read from the registry.
- Connection: Runs in the cloud
- Transport: Streamable HTTP
- Category: Search & AI memory
Install
Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.
Before you install
- Basic checks: 4 of 4 passed
- Runs on the maker’s server: what you ask it goes through their server.
- The registry lists no key to fill in.
You need
- Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet
Which app do you use?
Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.
Works in Claude on the web, desktop and mobile:
- Open Settings → Connectors
- Press Add custom connector
- Paste the address below and press Add
- If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker
https://mcp.zekra.devRun this in your terminal
claude mcp add --transport http zekra https://mcp.zekra.devOr copy the settings yourself
Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"zekra": {
"url": "https://mcp.zekra.dev"
}
}
}Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.
Or copy the settings yourself
Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project
{
"servers": {
"zekra": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.zekra.dev"
}
}
}Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.
ChatGPT connects only to servers on the internet:
- Open ChatGPT on the web → Settings → Connectors (Apps)
- Press Create or Add (some plans need Developer mode under Advanced first)
- Paste the address below, give it a name and save
- If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker
https://mcp.zekra.devMenu names can differ slightly by plan and over time.
Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.
These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.
Which apps can use it
Based on how this server connects and on each app’s own docs, checked Nov 10, 2026.
Connect over the internet in
ClaudeChatGPTGooseLM StudioMsty StudioCherry StudioCursorVS Code + GitHub CopilotVisual StudioWindsurf (Devin Desktop)ZedKiroClineContinueJetBrains AI AssistantClaude CodeCodex CLIGemini CLIOpenCodenodecodeWarpLibreChatOpen WebUIRaycast
Related guides
What it can do
The server asks you to sign in before it lists its tools.
Basic checksi
We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 11, 2026
- ✓ Pass
Maker matches the repo
The registry name was verified with the GitHub account fadymondy, which owns the repo
- ✓ Pass
Still maintained
Code last changed 6 days ago
- … Not checked yet
Has a licence
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
- ✓ Pass
Endpoint responds
Responded in 67 ms (HTTP 401)
- ✓ Pass
Sign-in with OAuth
Declares OAuth sign-in, so your AI app can take you to log in
- … Not checked yet
No hidden instructions in tool descriptions
Not checked yet; we read the tool list when we check the endpoint
Compared with others in Search & AI memoryi
- More stars than 73% of the other 5870 servers in this category
- Published to the registry more recently than 56% of the other 5870 servers in this category
- Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 5870 servers in this category
Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.
Common questions
Is Zekra safe?
It passed 4 of 4 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.
What keys or codes does it need?
The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.
Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?
It runs in the maker’s cloud. Connect over the internet with nothing to install, but what you send passes through the maker’s servers.
Is it still maintained?
The GitHub repo last changed 6 days ago, and the latest version (0.1.0) reached the registry 30 days ago.
Which apps can use it?
Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.
What can I use instead?
In the same category: Ruflo, Context7, Metabase
Alternatives
Servers in the same category from other makers, sorted by stars.
Reading a card:↓ Downloads per weeki★ GitHub starsiThree pillars: reviews · checks · usageiUpdated = latest version published to the registryi
README from the maker
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Zekra — ذكرى
Shared long-term memory for AI agents. What one session learns, the next one already knows.
Zekra is a memory service that any agent (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, your own fleet) reaches over MCP. It stores what agents and people learn, deduplicates and updates it on write, and returns the right memory on recall, with citations.
Website · Docs · Discord · Discussions · Issues
Features
- Retain / recall — hybrid retrieval: dense vectors + multilingual BM25 fused with RRF, a salience nudge, reranking, and 1-hop entity expansion. A write-decision step (ADD / UPDATE / INVALIDATE / NOOP) updates contradicted facts instead of duplicating them. Nothing is hard-deleted:
forgetsoft-invalidates and history stays queryable. - Many brains — one namespace per project or team, with per-agent grants and access tokens (
cbt_…) enforced server-side. - Knowledge graph — entities and typed relations extracted from memories, with traverse / neighbors / path / ontology queries and a graph "spine".
- Data sources — connectors (
text,markdown,crawler,github,sql,webhook) pull external content, chunk it and retain it through the same write pipeline. See Data sources. - Chat with a brain — a tool-calling agent that uses the brain's own recall / search / graph / retain as tools and answers with citations and an auditable trace.
- Knowledge gaps, secrets vault, activity log — plus a web console to manage it all.
- Tiers — Redis L1 working-memory cache, hot Postgres tier, object-store cold tier.
Quick start
Hosted
Sign up at [app.zekra.dev](https://app.zekra.dev), create a brain and mint a token, then connect your agent:
curl -fsSL https://app.zekra.dev/install.sh | sh # installs the `zekra` CLI
zekra auth login --token zekra mcp:install claude-code # or claude-desktop | codex | gemini | cursor
The CLI lives in fadymondy/zekra-cli.
Self-host with Docker Compose
Requirements: Docker with Compose v2, and about 6 GB of disk for the embedding and reranker models.
git clone https://github.com/fadymondy/zekra.git && cd zekra
cp .env.selfhost.example .env.selfhost
fill in POSTGRES_PASSWORD, AUTH_SECRET, ZEKRA_SECRETS_KEY and MFA_CHALLENGE_SECRET
(generate each with: openssl rand -hex 32), and your email in ADMIN_EMAILS
docker compose -f docker-compose.selfhost.yml --env-file .env.selfhost up -d --build
Open http://localhost:3020 and register. The stack runs Postgres 17 with VectorChord, a one-shot schema job, the Go API, the Next.js console and two CPU TEI servers (embeddings and reranking), which download their models on first start. Then mint a token under Admin → Tokens and run zekra auth login --url http://localhost:3020 --token cbt_….
For a public deployment, put a TLS reverse proxy in front and set APP_URL. Every setting is covered in docs/self-hosting.md and DEPLOY.md.
MCP tools
MCP tools include memory_retain, memory_recall, memory_get, memory_forget, memory_share, memory_edit, graph_*, memory_gaps, brain_* (list, grants, tokens, chat), secret_* and datasource_*. Full reference: MCP server · contracts: contracts/tools.md.
Architecture
Claude Code · Codex · Cursor · your agents web console · mobile · desktop · extension
│ MCP (Streamable HTTP or stdio) │ REST / GraphQL / SSE └───────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┘ ┌────────────────▼─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Go API (ToGO: plugins on a microkernel) │ │ brain plugin: retain → write-decision (ADD/UPDATE/ │ │ INVALIDATE/NOOP) · recall: vectors + BM25 → RRF → │ │ rerank → 1-hop graph · graph · data sources · chat │ └──────┬──────────────────┬─────────────────┬───────────┘ │ │ │ ┌────────────▼──────┐ ┌───────▼──────┐ ┌──────▼─────────┐ │ Postgres + vchord │ │ TEI embed / │ │ Redis L1 · │ │ BM25 · partman │ │ rerank │ │ Cognee (opt.) │ └───────────────────┘ └──────────────┘ └────────────────┘
Zekra is a ToGO app built from plugins:
| Part | Where | Role |
|---|---|---|
brain | plugins/brain (module github.com/togo-framework/brain) | the memory organ: schema, retain/recall, graph, connectors, chat, REST |
brain-tei | plugins/brain-tei | embeddings + rerank via TEI (Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B, bge-reranker-v2-m3) |
brain-cognee | plugins/brain-cognee | entity / graph extraction engine (Cognee) |
cache-redis | plugins/cache-redis | L1 cache |
| harness | cmd/api, cmd/migrate, internal/, web/ | the app: API server, migrations, React console |
zekra-mcp | cmd/zekra-mcp | stdio MCP server — thin adapter over the REST API |
zekractl | cmd/zekractl | ops CLI: inspect DB, apply schema/BM25, BM25 smoke test, graph mirror |
Design: SPEC.md · decisions: contracts/internal/decisions.md · deploy: DEPLOY.md.
Built on ToGO
Zekra is built on [ToGO](https://to-go.dev) (GitHub), the open-source, API-first framework for Go + sqlc + Atlas + GraphQL/OpenAPI + Next.js with a Laravel-style CLI. The kernel is small and everything else is a plugin; these are the pieces Zekra uses:
| ToGO piece | What it does in Zekra |
|---|---|
| Kernel | Config, the hook/event bus, the plugin registry and server bootstrap |
| CLI | togo generate (sqlc → gqlgen → Atlas → OpenAPI), togo serve, togo install |
| auth | Sign-in, JWT sessions, roles and API tokens; MFA, passkeys and OAuth come from the auth plugin family |
| db-postgres | The Postgres driver under the brain schema |
| queue · cache · storage · mail | Ingestion jobs, caching, media and transactional email |
| Plugin model | The memory organ itself ships as ToGO plugins: brain, brain-tei, brain-cognee, cache-redis |
Want the same foundation for your own app? Run go install github.com/togo-framework/cli@latest && togo new myapp, then read the ToGO docs and browse the plugin marketplace.
Read the case study: MCP Server in Go: How Zekra Is Built on ToGO Plugins.
Documentation
Full docs at https://zekra.dev/en/docs (source: docs/):
- Introduction and Quickstart
- MCP server: tool reference and client setup
- CLI: the
zekracommand and the Claude Code plugin - REST API: endpoints, errors, events, TypeScript client
- Data sources · Capture hook · Security · Self-hosting
Contributing
Bug reports, docs and code contributions are all welcome. Start with CONTRIBUTING.md, which covers setup, conventions and the DCO sign-off. Then look for a good first issue. AI coding agents should start with AGENTS.md.
Translations
Zekra is translated on Hosted Weblate, help us translate it into your language: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/zekra/. See CONTRIBUTING.md for how it works.
Community
- Discord: chat with the team and other users
- GitHub Discussions: questions, ideas, show and tell
- Issues: bugs and feature requests
- Security reports: see SECURITY.md
Please follow the Code of Conduct.
Sponsor
Zekra is built on [ToGO](https://github.com/togo-framework/togo), the open-source Go + React framework that powers this whole family of apps. The best way to support Zekra is to sponsor ToGO: every sponsorship goes into the framework and the apps built on it.
[Sponsor ToGO →](https://to-go.dev/sponsor)
License
Copyright (C) 2026 Fady Mondy. Zekra is free software, licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0-only). If you run a modified version as a network service, you must offer its source to your users. Third-party components keep their own licenses.
Commercial licensing available: for a license without the AGPL obligations, contact info@3x1.io.
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Built by Fady Mondy.