Show HN: Phileas – Local-first long-term memory for the AI you chat with

Category: library

Tags: ai-memory, mcp, local-first, llm, python

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 7, Utility: 7)

Phileas provides a local-first persistent memory layer for AI chat systems via the Model Context Protocol, allowing LLMs to recall and store information across sessions without external APIs. Its interesting angle is combining local embedding and reranker models with MCP to create a privacy-preserving, tool-agnostic memory solution that works with any MCP-compatible client.

Target audience: backend devs, ai engineers, llm users

Repository: https://github.com/alexajuno/phileas · Python

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