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Local and self-hosted tools for agent memory

Agents and assistants that can run on your own machine or server, keeping data local. Of the 105 tools on our memory for agents page, 20 fit this narrower job. By pricing: 19 open source, 1 source-available. The most-starred open repos here are Headroom (75,629 stars), MemPalace (59,622 stars), Nanobot (49,096 stars). Most come from the memory & RAG (11), personal agents (6), productivity (1) categories.

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Headroom

Newmemory & RAGOpen source

Library, proxy and MCP server that compresses tool outputs, logs, files and RAG chunks locally before they reach the LLM, cutting tokens for coding agents.

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MemPalace

Newmemory & RAGOpen source

Local-first AI memory system that stores conversations verbatim with a pluggable backend and serves recall to agents without API calls.

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Nanobot

personal agentsOpen source

Ultra-lightweight, self-hosted personal agent framework in Python with a web UI, tools, memory and MCP support.

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Supermemory

Newmemory & RAGOpen source + cloud

Memory and context engine for agents with an API, app and MCP server, which can also run fully locally.

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llmware

Newmemory & RAGOpen source

Framework for building private, local RAG and agent applications with small specialized models on AI PCs, edge and self-hosted setups.

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EverOS

memory & RAGOpen source

Local-first, portable memory layer for AI agents stored as Markdown.

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xerj

Newmemory & RAGOpen source

A local-first search engine and MCP server for agents: one Rust binary indexes code, docs, logs, CSV/JSONL and PDFs for full-text, vector and hybrid search plus agent memory, behind an Elasticsearch-compatible API.

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OpenKnowledge

NewproductivityOpen source

OpenKnowledge is a free, local-first markdown editor and knowledge base built for working alongside AI agents. It looks and feels like a Notion-style WYSIWYG editor, with callouts, tabs, Mermaid diagrams and media blocks, but every page stays a plain markdown file on your disk. Coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and dozens of others can read and write the same files through its integrations, so specs, team wikis and LLM wikis stay in one place that both people and agents keep up to date. It ships as a desktop app plus a web UI and CLI.

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LongMemory

Newmemory & RAGOpen source

Local-first memory engine for agents that keeps durable, time-aware memories in SQLite and serves them to Claude, Copilot, Codex and others over MCP, CLI or HTTP.

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Agent Sandbox (Kubernetes)

Newsandboxes & code executionOpen source

A Kubernetes project that adds a Sandbox resource for running isolated, stateful agent workloads such as code execution and browsers, with warm pools and fast startup on your own cluster.

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Basic Memory

Newmemory & RAGOpen source + cloud

Persistent memory for Claude, Codex and Cursor stored as local Markdown knowledge, available open source or as a hosted cloud workspace.

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Mercury Agent

Newpersonal agentsOpen source

Self-hosted personal AI agent with a written personality, local memory, permission-gated tools and token budgets, reachable via CLI or Telegram.

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Webcmd

Newbrowser/computer useOpen source

Browser layer for AI agents that learns how each website works as agents use it and saves that as local memory to make later runs faster and cheaper.

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Memmy

Newpersonal agentsOpen source

A local-first personal AI agent with a self-evolving long-term memory that its desktop app, CLI and your other AI agents can all share.

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Jarvis

Newpersonal agentsSource-available

Private, local-first desktop AI assistant with voice and text chat, personal memory, dictation and MCP tools.

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OpenLore

Newmemory & RAGOpen source

A self-hosted knowledge repository for AI agents written in Go, where agents and teams share docs, notes and findings over SSH and MCP with scoped access.

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projectmem

Newmemory & RAGOpen source

A local-first memory layer for coding agents that records issues, attempts, fixes and decisions and warns your agent before it repeats a past mistake.

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Graphicle

Newmemory & RAGOpen source

Graphicle, from KarLex AI, is a single local Rust program that gives Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and other MCP agents a code graph and memory, returning excerpts with file and line references from your code, docs and past sessions, with no account or telemetry.

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Dodaios

Newpersonal agentsOpen source

Open-source desktop agent OS for Windows, macOS and Linux (formerly Personal Jarvis): talk to it and it runs your coding CLIs side by side, your browser and your apps, with offline Whisper speech, a local wiki memory and support for Ollama, Claude or ChatGPT subscriptions.

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TecAdRise Bot

Newpersonal agentsOpen source

TecAdRise Bot is a free, MIT-licensed Windows desktop app (Electron and Cursor SDK) for running a local team of AI agents, each with its own model, memory, skills, MCP servers, workspace and schedule.

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GitHub repos (20)

RepoGitHub starsLicenceLast push
Headroom ↗75,629Apache License 2.02026-10-21
MemPalace ↗59,622MIT2026-10-20
Nanobot ↗49,096MIT2026-10-21
Supermemory ↗31,281MIT2026-10-18
llmware ↗14,814Apache License 2.02026-10-01
EverOS ↗13,451Apache License 2.02026-10-21
xerj ↗11,507—2026-10-21
OpenKnowledge ↗4,646——
LongMemory ↗4,541—2026-10-18
Agent Sandbox (Kubernetes) ↗4,328—2026-10-20
Basic Memory ↗4,263—2026-10-20
Mercury Agent ↗3,433—2026-10-21
Webcmd ↗2,725—2026-10-20
Memmy ↗2,125—2026-10-19
Jarvis ↗2,097—2026-10-19

Top 15 of 20 by stars. Stars and licence come from each repo, checked when the listing was last verified.

FAQ

What are the best AI tools for memory for agents focused on local and self-hosted?

We list 20. The first three by GitHub stars and featured status are Headroom: Library, proxy and MCP server that compresses tool outputs, logs, files and RAG chunks locally before they reach the LLM, cutting tokens for coding agents.; MemPalace: Local-first AI memory system that stores conversations verbatim with a pluggable backend and serves recall to agents without API calls.; Nanobot: Ultra-lightweight, self-hosted personal agent framework in Python with a web UI, tools, memory and MCP support.

Are there free or open-source options?

Yes: 19 open source, 1 source-available. Pricing is as each maker states it.

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