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Build an Atomic MCP Server: Local-First Knowledge Base for Persistent Agent Memory [2026]

Atomic is a local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base that uses SQLite FTS5 and BM25 ranking for embedding-free semantic search. This guide builds an Atomic MCP Server that exposes note creation, semantic retrieval, and context merging as MCP tools — giving AI agents persistent, queryable memory with an 18MB memory footprint.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
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