Project Lore

Name: Project Lore
Author: tamas-fm

by tamas-fmversion 0.1.1i★ –iRuns on your computer

Registry nameio.github.tamas-fm/project-lore

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Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

A local-first MCP server that routes development tasks to authoritative project documentation.

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What you can do with it

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Connection: Runs on your computer
Transport: stdio
Category: Other

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

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The registry lists no key to fill in.

You need

npmNode.js installed (for the npx command)

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "project-lore": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "project-lore-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add project-lore -- npx -y project-lore-mcp

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "project-lore": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "project-lore-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "project-lore": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "project-lore-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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What it can do

Runs on your computer; the tool list appears in your AI app after you install it.

Basic checksi

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Common questions

Is Project Lore safe?

It passed 1 of 1 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 on your computer. Your AI app starts it when needed, and data does not pass through the maker’s servers (unless it calls an online service itself).

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (0.1.1) reached the registry 3 months ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. You also need Node.js on your computer.

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README from the maker

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project-lore-mcp

A local-first MCP server that routes coding agents to the smallest useful set of project documentation — decisions, intent, and constraints — with provenance and freshness.

Code-intelligence tools (such as codebase-memory-mcp) answer *where is this implemented and what depends on it*. This project answers the complementary questions: why was it designed this way, which document governs this task, and is that knowledge still current?

What it does

Point it at a repository (plus optional external documentation roots). It:

discovers Markdown, text, HTML, YAML, JSON, Mermaid, and Claude instruction files;
classifies each document by kind and authority (instructions → canonical → design → planning → historical → generated → proposed);
extracts headings, sections, links, frontmatter, ADR status, and explicit "read first" / "supersedes" / task-routing relationships — deterministically, with recorded provenance (structural extraction applies to Markdown; other formats receive plain-text indexing);
stores a rebuildable local index in SQLite (FTS5), updated incrementally by content hash;
answers task and knowledge queries with bounded excerpts and exact source locations — never whole files, flagging stale or superseded sources instead of hiding them.

MCP tools

Tool	Purpose
`route_task`	Given a development task, return the ordered documents/sections to read first. Explicit manifest routes win over ranked search.
`search_project_knowledge`	Full-text search over documentation, re-ranked by authority and status; freshness is shown per result.
`get_document_context`	Sections + typed relationships of one document, without returning the whole file.

Install and run

Requires Node.js ≥ 22.

npm install -g project-lore-mcp   # or npx -y project-lore-mcp (no install needed)

project-lore index --root /path/to/your/repo # one-shot index + stats project-lore serve --root /path/to/your/repo # stdio MCP server

Claude Code

Run this once from inside the repository you want to index:

# Personal setup — stored in your local Claude Code config, not committed

claude mcp add project-lore --scope local -- \ npx -y project-lore-mcp serve --root "$PWD"

For teams, commit a shared configuration instead:

# Shared setup — writes .mcp.json into the repository

claude mcp add project-lore --scope project -- \ npx -y project-lore-mcp serve --root .

The project scope uses a relative root (.) so it works on any checkout. Claude Code will ask each user to approve project-scoped servers before running them.

One repository, one configuration. Project Lore's command contains a

fixed root path, so it always indexes one specific repository. Register it

separately per repository rather than globally.

It coexists with codebase-memory-mcp — configure both; they own different questions. If your configuration references documentation outside the repository, Claude Code must be granted filesystem access to those paths (add them as additional working directories or approve the permission prompts).

Try the example

npm run index:example        # index examples/documented-project

npm run serve:example # serve it over stdio

Configuration

Optional project-lore.config.yaml at the repository root:

sources:

id: repository type: directory path: . authority: canonical
id: design-handoff type: directory path: ../product-docs # explicit opt-in external root authority: design

classification: rules:

pattern: "docs/legacy/**" authority: historical

See docs/configuration.md for the full reference and docs/concepts.md for the authority model.

Design principles

Store and retrieve documented intent conservatively. Derive structure

automatically. Preserve provenance always.

Local-only by default. No network access, no telemetry, no uploads. The index is regenerable and safe to delete (.project-lore/, gitignored).
Deterministic before AI. v1 uses no LLM and no embeddings. Every stored relationship records how it was extracted; inferred data can never masquerade as documented fact.
Evidence, not instructions. Retrieved excerpts are quoted, bounded, and attributed. Document content is treated as untrusted data (see docs/provenance-and-trust.md).

Project status

v0.1.0 — first vertical slice. See docs/architecture.md, the ADRs in docs/adr/, and CONTRIBUTING.md.

License: MIT.

Project Lore

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Otheri

Common questions

Alternatives

Spec Driven Development

Remote Desktop Commander

SuperCollider

README from the maker

project-lore-mcp

What it does

MCP tools

Install and run

Claude Code

Try the example

Configuration

Design principles

Project status