Honcho MCP server
Memory that reasons: continual learning for stateful agents. Better context, fewer tokens.
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Public scan report
scanner v0.1.9 · 2026-09-23 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
- –Code scanremote-only server, no package to scann/a
- Live reliabilityremote reachable in 87ms (auth required)20/20
- –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (endpoint requires auth); not countedn/a
- Auth qualityOAuth resource metadata advertised on 40115/15
- Maintenancelast push 0 days ago15/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year9/10
What the publisher says
From the Honcho repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
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Honcho is memory infrastructure for building stateful agents that understand changing people, agents, groups, projects, and ideas over time.
Store messages and events, let Honcho reason in the background, then query peer representations, session context, search results, or natural-language insights from any model or framework. Use it managed at api.honcho.dev, run a local stack with honcho start, or self-host the FastAPI server yourself.
Using Honcho as your memory system will earn your agents higher retention, more trust, and help you build data moats to out-compete incumbents.
Honcho has defined the Pareto Frontier of Agent Memory. Watch the video, check out our evals page, and read the blog post for more detail.
Contents
- Start Here
- Why Honcho
- The Honcho Loop
- Quickstart
- What Honcho Gives You
- Integrations
- CLI
- Core Concepts
- Benchmarks & Evals
- Self-hosting
- Configuration
- Architecture
The Honcho project is split between several repositories, with this one hosting the core service logic — implemented as a FastAPI server. Client SDKs for Python and TypeScript live in the sdks/ directory. The honcho-cli package lives here too.
Start Here
Why Honcho
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Install directly
claude mcp add --transport http honcho https://mcp.honcho.dev
Honcho: common questions
- Is Honcho MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (98/100). Read the Honcho safety report
- How do I install Honcho?
- It runs remotely at mcp.honcho.dev. Add it to Claude Code, Claude Desktop or Cursor with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Honcho need an API key?
- No key to paste: it signs you in with OAuth when your client connects.
- Is Honcho maintained?
- The last commit was in the last day (2026-09-23). The latest release is v3.0.0.
- Is Honcho up?
- 100% of our last 21 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- What can I use instead of Honcho?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: Codebase Memory MCP server, Trace MCP server and Visual Memory MCP server. Compare all Honcho alternatives.
Alternatives to Honcho
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TraceCode graph MCP: 81 languages, 88 frameworks, 72.7% fewer PR-review tokens, comprehension at paritynot reviewedEstablishedA
Visual Memory MCPLocal visual UI cache for AI agents using perceptual hashing + CLIP to cut vision token use.not reviewedEstablishedA