Basemouse Core vs Memkin

In-depth architectural comparison of the Basemouse Core and Memkin MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

Which MCP Server Should You Choose?

Choose Basemouse Core when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Knowledge & Memory domain.
• You prefer remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: API Key required (Freemium).
• You have access to required keys: BASEMOUSE_VECTOR_RETRIEVAL, DATABASE_URL, DATABASE_CA_CERT, BASEMOUSE_API_KEY.
• Primary tools included: MCP Streamable HTTP endpoint, Lexical and hybrid document retrieval, Cited context-pack generation.

Explore Basemouse Core Details

Choose Memkin when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Knowledge & Memory domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: API Key required (BYOK (Pay Provider Direct)).
• Primary tools included: Feishu/Lark data collection, AI coding session ingestion, Local entity knowledge graph.

Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification	Basemouse Core basemouse Knowledge & Memory	Memkin AndreLYL Knowledge & Memory
Summary	Shared, versioned memory for your agents across Claude Code, Cursor, Kiro and Grok. One MCP server, sourced answers, full history. Remote Streamable HTTP; anonymous browses a public demo corpus. Tools: search, getcontextpack, upsertdocument. https://basemouse.com/mcp	Local-first personal memory for AI agents. Ingests Feishu/Lark chats and Claude Code / Codex sessions, distills them into a private entity knowledge graph (people, projects, decisions, tasks), and serves it to any agent over MCP — read and write. npx memkin
Category & Scope

Tools & Capabilities Breakdown

Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations

Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "basemouse-basemouse-core": {
      "url": "https://basemouse.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "andrelyl-memkin": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "memkin"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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