How to install telemem in Claude Desktop

Long-term and multimodal memory for AI agents - character-aware, mem0-compatible, fully-local option

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Steps

1Install uv (for uvx): https://docs.astral.sh/uv/
2In Claude Desktop open Settings → Developer → Edit Config
3Add the entry below. If the file already has "mcpServers", add just the inner entry
4Quit and reopen Claude Desktop

Configuration

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "telemem": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "telemem"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Environment variable	Required	What it is
OPENAI_API_KEYsecret	No	API key for the default OpenAI LLM/embedder (not needed with a local TELEMEM_CONFIG)
TELEMEM_CONFIG	No	Path to a TeleMem YAML/JSON config, e.g. the fully-local Ollama + FAISS setup (config/config.ollama.yaml)
TELEMEM_DEFAULT_USER_ID	No	Default memory scope when tool calls omit user_id/agent_id/run_id (default: telemem-mcp)

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Claude Code Cursor Windsurf Gemini CLI OpenAI Agents SDK

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