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The mnem binary is ~40 MB and self-contained. There is no daemon to start, no cloud account to create, no database server to manage.

Install it, run mnem init, and you're writing and retrieving knowledge. Everything runs in-process.

What's included

  • Embedded redb key-value store (the graph backing store)
  • HNSW vector index
  • Prolly tree chunker
  • Ingest pipeline (parse, chunk, entity extraction)
  • MCP server (stdio)
  • HTTP server
  • CLI

All of these are the same binary, selected by subcommand.

Offline operation

mnem has no required network calls at runtime. The bundled ONNX embedder runs entirely in-process. Ingest, retrieval, branching, merging - everything works with the laptop offline.

Optional integrations (Ollama, OpenAI, Cohere) use the network only when explicitly configured.

Binary size

The ~40 MB size comes primarily from the bundled ONNX runtime and the MiniLM-L6-v2 model weights. Build without --features bundled-embedder to get a smaller binary that uses an external embedder.

See also