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Deja Vu

Deja Vu is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. deja-vu: local memory over the session histories of thirty-eight coding agents. It has 1,139 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y @vshulcz/deja-vu.

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Install Deja Vu

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "deja-vu": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@vshulcz/deja-vu"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio deja-vu -- npx -y @vshulcz/deja-vu

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "deja-vu": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@vshulcz/deja-vu"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "deja-vu": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@vshulcz/deja-vu"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Tools (7)

Parsed from the Tools section of the README; check the repository for the current list.

  • deja

    mode, q, harness?, project?, limit?

  • recall

    the question, or an exact error string, name or flag

  • context

    the same as recall

  • blame

    a file path

  • orient

    nothing — it asks about the project

  • remember

    one durable fact or decision

  • handoff

    a session id or harness name; empty for the newest session here

About Deja Vu

Your coding agents stop re-debugging what you already fixed. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and 35 more agents already save every session to disk. deja indexes all of it, months back, and hands the part that matters to whichever agent is working now.

  • claude-code
  • codex
  • mcp
  • opencode
  • agent-memory
  • coding-agents
  • mcp-server
  • claude-code-hooks
  • claude-code-plugins
  • session-history

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What is Deja Vu?

Deja Vu is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. deja-vu: local memory over the session histories of thirty-eight coding agents. It has 1,139 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y @vshulcz/deja-vu. The source code is at github.com/vshulcz/deja-vu.

How do I install the Deja Vu MCP server?

Add the command npx -y @vshulcz/deja-vu to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Deja Vu free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Deja Vu actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 6, 2026. The latest release is v0.21.7, published Oct 6, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.