ChainMemory

io.github.chaelynet/chainmemory

6/8 checks passed
Runs locally
3 secrets
★ 0 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-10
Health score 51

About ChainMemory

ChainMemory is an MCP server published by the GitHub account chaelynet. Verifiable, portable AI memory. Optional vault: encrypted on your machine, 12 words only you hold.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package chainmemory-mcp at version 2.10.0.

It asks for 3 secrets: CHAINMEMORY_API_KEY, CHAINMEMORY_SEED_PHRASE and AICHAIN_KEY. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 2.10.0 was published on 10 October 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 6 pass, 2 warn, 0 fail, 1 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`CHAINMEMORY_API_KEY`	Yes	Yes	ChainMemory API key. REQUIRED for every tool except chainmemory_seal. Get one at https://faucet.chainmemory.ai
`CHAINMEMORY_SEED_PHRASE`	No	Yes	12-word BIP-39 phrase for the blind vault. Optional: without it the server works exactly as before. With it, sealed:true encrypts a memory on your machine and computes its search vector here, so sealed memories can still be found, and searches send the query's vector instead of its text. Generate one with chainmemory_new_seed. It never leaves your machine and cannot be recovered.
`CHAINMEMORY_API_BASE`	No	No	API base URL (default: https://api.chainmemory.ai)
`CHAINMEMORY_MODELS_DIR`	No	No	Folder for the 45 MB search model used with the blind vault (default: ~/.chainmemory/models). Downloaded once from models.chainmemory.ai and checked against its SHA-256 anchored on ChainMemory's chain.
`CHAINMEMORY_ALLOW_FULL`	No	No	Set to 1 to let get_project_brief return the FULL level (addresses, ports, server paths and security rules) when you ask for it. Leave it empty to keep every brief at the public level, which is safe to paste anywhere. Works only with the owner's key, and ChainMemory logs every full-level request.
`AICHAIN_KEY`	No	Yes	NOT NEEDED for normal use — leave it empty. Only the chainmemory_seal tool reads it, to sign a contract call yourself instead of letting the API anchor the memory (which chainmemory_remember already does). If you do set it, it is a wallet private key: use a dedicated wallet holding only a few AIC, never your main one. No other tool uses it.
`AICHAIN_RPC`	No	No	RPC endpoint used only by chainmemory_seal (default: https://rpc.chainmemory.ai). Leave it empty unless you set AICHAIN_KEY.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/chaelynet/chainmemory-mcp
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Warn	Asks for 3 secrets: CHAINMEMORY_API_KEY, CHAINMEMORY_SEED_PHRASE, AICHAIN_KEY
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account chaelynet
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	chainmemory-mcp@2.10.0 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Warn	Reads browser or wallet data (cm-bip39.js:15: "MetaMask"); Reads browser or wallet data (cm-wordlist.js:5: "MetaMask")
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 16 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 51 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity8 / 40

0 GitHub stars, 174 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity23 / 25

Last push 2026-10-10, no GitHub release, 22 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

0 closed of 0 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks12 / 20

2 warnings, each costing a fifth.

0 forks, 0 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.chaelynet/chainmemory`
Publisher	GitHub account chaelynet
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account chaelynet. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	npm `chainmemory-mcp` 2.10.0 (stdio)
Version	2.10.0
Published	2026-10-10
Last updated	2026-10-10
Source repository	https://github.com/chaelynet/chainmemory-mcp
Website	https://chainmemory.ai
Category	Productivity & notes (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chainmemory": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "chainmemory-mcp@2.10.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CHAINMEMORY_API_KEY": "<your value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

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For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-chaelynet-chainmemory.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.