Tela vs Enquire MCP

In-depth architectural comparison of the Tela and Enquire MCP 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 Tela when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Knowledge & Memory domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: API Key required (Free / Open Source).
• You have access to required keys: TELA_PUBLIC_BASE_URL, TELA_SHARE_SECRET, TELA_API_KEY_SECRET, TELA_PG_PASSWORD.
• Primary tools included: MCP access to search, read, and write wiki pages, Ranked PostgreSQL full-text search, Optional pgvector semantic retrieval.

Explore Tela Details

Choose Enquire MCP when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Knowledge & Memory domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: Hybrid retrieval: BM25, ML embeddings, BGE reranker with RRF fusion, Supports Markdown, PDFs with Tesseract OCR, Canvas, Dataview, and Bases, Returns source paths, page citations, age_days, and stale flags.

Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification	Tela zcag Knowledge & Memory	Enquire MCP oomkapwn Knowledge & Memory
Summary	Self-hostable, markdown-native team wiki with a built-in MCP server: agents search, read, and write your wiki pages (ranked Postgres full-text + semantic search, backlink traversal). Plus Atlas, which auto-generates a cited, coverage-checked wiki from your git repos and Jira. Go + Postgres. npx tela-mcp	Long-term memory for AI agents (Claude Code/Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, Codex, OpenClaw) backed by a local Obsidian markdown vault. Hybrid retrieval (BM25 + ML embeddings + BGE reranker, RRF-fused), HNSW + int8 quantization, agentic RAG (HyDE + sub-question), GraphRAG-light (Louvain wikilink community detection), standalone Obsidian Bases, PDFs + Tesseract OCR. 46 tools, 19 MCP prompts, MIT, SLSA L2, zero cloud calls during serve. npx -y @oomkapwn/enquire-mcp serve --vault

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": {
    "zcag-tela": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "tela-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TELA_PUBLIC_BASE_URL": "YOUR_TELA_PUBLIC_BASE_URL_HERE",
        "TELA_SHARE_SECRET": "YOUR_TELA_SHARE_SECRET_HERE",
        "TELA_API_KEY_SECRET": "YOUR_TELA_API_KEY_SECRET_HERE",
        "TELA_PG_PASSWORD": "YOUR_TELA_PG_PASSWORD_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oomkapwn-enquire-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@oomkapwn/enquire-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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