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Welcome to the Recollectium manual.
Recollectium is a local-first memory engine for AI agents. It gives agents a durable, inspectable place to store and search facts, preferences, decisions, task context, and project knowledge without locking that memory inside one client.
Recollectium is not just a helper database for one agent. It is a portable memory layer designed around ownership, semantic recall, and agent interoperability.
- Local-first by default: memory lives on your machine unless you choose otherwise.
- User memory matters: Recollectium treats user preferences, communication style, durable goals, and personal context as first-class memory, not an afterthought behind project-only notes.
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Semantic search by meaning: agents can ask for "preferences about wording" and find the right preference memories without needing an exact
typefilter every time. - Portable across agents and models: any tool that can use CLI, Python, HTTP, or MCP can use the same Core.
- Simple to self-host: installation is one command, runtime is local, storage is SQLite, and services are managed by Recollectium.
- Open source and community driven: Recollectium is built for people who want their memory stack to be inspectable, extensible, and owned by the community.
- Quick Start: install, initialize, add memories, search, and start services.
- Installation: one-command install, package-manager installs, development install, upgrade, and uninstall.
- Concepts: user memory, workspace memory, semantic recall, aliases, and embeddings.
- CLI Reference: all commands and flags.
- API Reference: local HTTP API calls, parameters, responses, and errors.
- WebUI: local browser control plane for managing Core from a browser.
- MCP Server: MCP modes and tool contracts.
- Troubleshooting: common install, PATH, config, service, API, and MCP fixes.
Some documents are contracts for implementers and should be treated as canonical:
FAQ
- Is Recollectium cloud-hosted?
- Does Recollectium encrypt the database?
- Does the API have authentication?
- Does the WebUI have authentication?
- Which embedding model does it use?
- Should agents search by type first?
- What is the difference between
dev serveandservice start api? - Can I run Core on one machine and an agent on another?
- Is the OpenCode plugin available?