Honcho
Honcho is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. Memory that reasons: continual learning for stateful agents. It has 7,494 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and runs as a remote server at https://mcp.honcho.dev.
- Needs API key
- AI & search
- AGPL-3.0
- Actively maintained
Install Honcho
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Claude Desktop
Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector
URL: https://mcp.honcho.devRemote servers are added as a custom connector, not in claude_desktop_config.json.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http honcho "https://mcp.honcho.dev"Cursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"honcho": {
"url": "https://mcp.honcho.dev"
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"honcho": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.honcho.dev"
}
}
}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).
About Honcho
Honcho is memory infrastructure for building stateful agents that understand changing people, agents, groups, projects, and ideas over time.
- ai
- llm
- memory
- agent-memory
- ai-agents
- ai-memory
- context-engineering
- continual-learning
- agentic-rag
- dsh-plugin
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What is Honcho?
Honcho is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. Memory that reasons: continual learning for stateful agents. It has 7,494 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and runs as a remote server at https://mcp.honcho.dev. The source code is at github.com/plastic-labs/honcho.
How do I install the Honcho MCP server?
It is a remote MCP server at https://mcp.honcho.dev. Add it with claude mcp add --transport http in Claude Code, as a url entry in .cursor/mcp.json or .vscode/mcp.json, or as a custom connector in the Claude apps.
Is Honcho free?
The server is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (an API key or token) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.
Is Honcho actively maintained?
The most recent commit was on Oct 6, 2026. The latest release is v3.2.2, published Oct 1, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.