MemPalace
“Memory is identity.”
— mempalaceofficial.com
MemPalace recently went viral – partly due to celebrity backing from Milla Jovovich, and partly due to some highly controversial benchmark claims that the AI community quickly debunked. But if you look past the marketing hype and the synthetic benchmark drama, the underlying architecture provides something genuinely useful: a local, persistent vector database connected to your IDE via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
It has become a perfect catalyst for the promotion of Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) in use with selected AI tools.
MemPalace is a local-first memory solution for AI Agents, hosted on GitHub under the MIT license and released for free to the community.
The main goal is, through its memory, to significantly reduce selected AI model context usage and help users stay well within rate limits (whatever they may be).
Have you experienced this with AI? You ask a simple question, expecting a concise bullet-point answer or a short step-by-step guide, only to receive a full-blown essay in return. That is AI trying to “spit” tons of words to please us and demonstrate how thorough its responses can be. Most of the time, however, we simply do not need that.
Over time, consistently using a single dedicated AI tool with memory and personalisation enabled will teach the AI how to respond to you. Yet, new topics still frequently turn into an unnecessary wall of text.
After reading just a paragraph or two, your brain already has follow-up questions, and you do not really have time to read all the way to the end.
Sometimes you do not require AI to resolve your query with a ready-made solution immediately. Instead, as part of the learning process, you want to ask questions and analyse answers to gradually reach a point where you have learned something with the AI – rather than having the AI do the work for you.
People with differently wired brains, as well as highly intelligent individuals, do not use AI to replace their work. They need help processing significant amounts of information in a way that allows their brain to keep things organised, structured, and easy to comprehend.