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Citadel

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Encrypted-first embedded database with vector search and agent memory, exposed as MCP tools

Quick Install

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Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent β€” or use 1-click editor setup below.

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Client Config & Setup

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Target File:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "citadel": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "citadeldb-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

πŸ’‘ Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.

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Documentation Overview

Citadel

crates.io npm PyPI citadeldb PyPI citadeldb-mcp MCP registry: dev.citadeldb/mcp
CI LoCoMo 87.2% (gpt-4o-mini, mean of 3 runs) LongMemEval-S 86.2% (gpt-4o reader) License

Historical memory results and configurations

Quick Start

For semantic memory through MCP, install uv and pull the local embedder and optional cross-encoder reranker:

console
uvx citadeldb-mcp pull e5-large
uvx citadeldb-mcp pull ms-marco-minilm

Set CITADEL_KEY to your vault passphrase (export CITADEL_KEY="your-passphrase" on macOS/Linux or $env:CITADEL_KEY = "your-passphrase" in PowerShell), then start:

console
uvx citadeldb-mcp --db memory.cdl --embedder e5-large --reranker ms-marco-minilm

The server communicates over stdio. See MCP for client configuration. Model downloads do not need a vault key; serving does.

Memory (Python)

Install the published package with pip install citadeldb. See the Python source-build and semantic-memory guide. Embedders implement embed_with_cancel(texts, cancel_token) and check cancellation between bounded batches. Local Candle models require the candle-embed build feature.

Memory (Rust)

Uses citadeldb and citadeldb-mem with the candle-embed feature. This example loads e5-large and a local cross-encoder reranker. Other presets or a custom Embedder are supported.

rust
use std::sync::Arc;
use citadel::DatabaseBuilder;
use citadel_mem::{AtomInput, CandleEmbedder, CrossEncoder, MemoryEngine, RecallQuery, RerankStrategy};

// Encrypted store (per-atom keys enable cryptographic forgetting)
let db = DatabaseBuilder::new("memory.db")
    .passphrase(b"secret")
    .enable_region_keys(true)
    .create()?;
let mem = MemoryEngine::open(Arc::new(db))?;

let embedder = Arc::new(CandleEmbedder::e5_large("/path/to/e5-large")?);
mem.create_encrypted_region("chat", embedder)?;
mem.set_reranker(
    Arc::new(CrossEncoder::ms_marco_minilm_l6("/path/to/ms-marco-minilm")?),
    RerankStrategy::default(),
);

// Remember raw turns (no LLM)
mem.remember("chat", AtomInput::new("fact", "Alice's cat is named Mochi"))?;
let berlin = mem.remember("chat", AtomInput::new("fact", "Alice lives in Berlin"))?;

// Recall by relevance
for hit in mem.recall("chat", RecallQuery::by_text("where does Alice live?", 5))? {
    println!("{:.3}  {}", hit.relevance.expect("ranked recall"), hit.text);
}

// Cryptographic forgetting: destroy the atom's key
mem.forget_atom("chat", berlin)?;

SQL and key-value

Uses the citadeldb and citadeldb-sql crates - or try SQL with no install in the live playground.

Dockerfile
use citadel::DatabaseBuilder;
use citadel_sql::Connection;

let db = DatabaseBuilder::new("my.db")
    .passphrase(b"secret")
    .create()?;

let conn = Connection::open(&db)?;
conn.execute("CREATE TABLE users (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT NOT NULL);")?;
conn.execute("INSERT INTO users (id, name) VALUES (1, 'Alice');")?;
let result = conn.query("SELECT * FROM users;")?;

// Key-value API
let mut wtx = db.begin_write()?;
wtx.insert(b"key", b"value")?;
wtx.commit()?;

let mut rtx = db.begin_read();
assert_eq!(rtx.get(b"key")?.unwrap(), b"value");

// Named tables
let mut wtx = db.begin_write()?;
wtx.create_table(b"sessions")?;
wtx.table_insert(b"sessions", b"token-abc", b"user-42")?;
wtx.commit()?;

// In-memory (no file I/O - useful for testing and WASM)
let mem_db = DatabaseBuilder::new("")
    .passphrase(b"secret")
    .create_in_memory()?;

CLI

Dockerfile
citadel --create my.db

citadel> CREATE TABLE users (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT NOT NULL);
citadel> INSERT INTO users (id, name) VALUES (1, 'Alice'), (2, 'Bob');
citadel> SELECT * FROM users;
+----+-------+
| id | name  |
+----+-------+
|  1 | Alice |
|  2 | Bob   |
+----+-------+

citadel> .backup mydb.bak
citadel> .verify
citadel> .upgrade
citadel> .stats
citadel> .audit verify
citadel> .rekey
citadel> .compact clean.db
citadel> .dump users

# P2P sync
citadel> .keygen
citadel> .listen 4248 <KEY>              # Terminal A
citadel> .sync 127.0.0.1:4248 <KEY>      # Terminal B

Citadel Studio

A native desktop client for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Open encrypted vaults, browse tables and memory, run SQL with EXPLAIN and ANALYZE, and inspect vectors and integrity results.

See the Studio guide for screenshots and build instructions. Download Citadel Studio for Windows, macOS, or Linux.

Agent frameworks

The adapters implement framework-specific storage, session, and retrieval interfaces. Each requires an explicit embedder. See the package README for setup, search behavior, and supported filters.

FrameworkPackageImplements
LangGraphcitadeldb-langgraphBaseStore
CrewAIcitadeldb-crewaiStorageBackend
OpenAI Agents SDKcitadeldb-openai-agentsSession
Google ADKcitadeldb-google-adkBaseMemoryService
LlamaIndexcitadeldb-llamaindexBasePydanticVectorStore
LangChaincitadeldb-langchainVectorStore, BaseChatMessageHistory
Haystackcitadeldb-haystackDocumentStore
Microsoft Agent Frameworkcitadeldb-ms-agent-frameworkHistoryProvider, ContextProvider
Strands Agentscitadeldb-strands-agentsSessionRepository
Terminal
pip install citadeldb-langgraph

One database serves every adapter on the thread that opened it, so a graph's long-term store and its session transcripts can share one encrypted file. See packaging/ for each package's own README.

MCP

Serve an encrypted memory region to Claude Desktop or any MCP client. citadeldb-mcp is published to PyPI and listed in the official MCP registry as dev.citadeldb/mcp. Run it without installing through uvx.

For the recommended semantic-recall setup, pull the embedder and cross-encoder reranker once:

console
uvx citadeldb-mcp pull e5-large
uvx citadeldb-mcp pull ms-marco-minilm

The pull commands do not need a vault key. Before starting the server, set CITADEL_KEY to the vault passphrase: use export CITADEL_KEY="your-passphrase" on macOS/Linux or $env:CITADEL_KEY = "your-passphrase" in PowerShell. Then run:

console
uvx citadeldb-mcp --db memory.cdl --embedder e5-large --reranker ms-marco-minilm

--db, --embedder, and CITADEL_KEY are required when serving. The reranker is optional, but e5-large with ms-marco-minilm is the configuration used for the memory benchmarks.

To install the executable instead, run pip install citadeldb-mcp or cargo install citadeldb-mcp. Pull the same models with citadeldb-mcp pull e5-large and citadeldb-mcp pull ms-marco-minilm, then add it to claude_desktop_config.json:

config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "citadel": {
      "command": "citadeldb-mcp",
      "args": [
        "--db", "/absolute/path/to/memory.cdl",
        "--embedder", "e5-large",
        "--reranker", "ms-marco-minilm"
      ],
      "env": { "CITADEL_KEY": "your-passphrase" }
    }
  }
}

Historical memory benchmarks

Recorded LoCoMo and LongMemEval results are summarized below; their configurations and limitations predate the current memory-engine changes. SQL comparisons with unencrypted SQLite across 59 cases are under Speed benchmarks.

Read the full README β†’View source on GitHub β†’

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Frequently Asked Questions about Citadel

Add the following block to your claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers: "mcpServers": { "citadel": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["citadeldb-mcp"] } }

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