{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "basic-memory", "name": "Basic Memory", "vendor": "Basic Memory LLC", "vendorUrl": "https://basicmemory.com", "kind": "mcp", "category": "agent-memory", "summary": "Basic Memory is an open-source MCP server and CLI that keeps an AI assistant's memory as Markdown notes on the user's disk, with full-text, semantic and graph search, plus an optional paid cloud for shared team memory.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/basic-memory", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/basic-memory.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/basic-memory.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/basic-memory.json", "dns": "basic-memory.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory", "license": "AGPL-3.0", "transports": [ "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "basic-memory" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The local stdio server needs no credential and works inside configured project folders. Basic Memory Cloud uses OAuth 2.1 through WorkOS, with API keys that are read-only or project-scoped on Pro and above.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The open-source server is free. Cloud is $19 a month for up to 2 members with 1,900 credits and a 7-day trial, Pro $99 a month for 5 members, Business $249 a month for 25. Usage credits are $0.01 each.", "priceSummary": "$19 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the source, docs, llms.txt or pricing (checked 2026-11-06). Cloud subscriptions are paid through Polar.sh per the terms.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 13, "popularity": { "githubStars": 4509, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 19662, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.basicmemory.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.basicmemory.com/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.github.basicmachines-co/basic-memory", "capabilities": [ "memory.store", "memory.search", "memory.graph", "memory.delete" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "self-hosted", "hosted", "freemium", "agpl-3.0", "python", "mcp", "mcp-registry", "markdown", "llms-txt", "telemetry", "oauth" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 76.9, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 38, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 91, "payments": 50, "reliability": 83, "schema": 89, "security": 61, "transparency": 82 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Basic Memory 1.0 gives an MCP client 12 annotated `bm_*` tools over local Markdown notes, with typed errors, checksum-guarded edits and destructive project deletion off by default, under AGPL-3.0. Version 1.0 of 29 October 2026 removed every pre-1.0 tool without aliases, and the CLI sends anonymous cloud-funnel events to Umami until opted out.", "bestFor": "Memory for coding agents and assistants kept as Markdown the user owns, with search and a graph.", "strengths": [ "12 MCP tools, each with readOnly, destructive and idempotent hints, and `bm_project_delete` hidden unless enabled", "Notes are plain Markdown files on the owner's disk, with full-text, semantic and graph search", "Refusals are tool errors with typed codes such as NOT_FOUND, REVISION_CONFLICT and OUTSIDE_PROJECT", "Version 1.0.0 on 29 October 2026 with a dated changelog and a migration map for every removed tool", "Terms and privacy policy of 27 October 2026 agree on 30-day deletion, 90-day backups and no training on content" ], "weaknesses": [ "1.0 removed every pre-1.0 tool and command with no aliases, so older agent instructions and allowlists break", "Anonymous cloud-promotion telemetry to Umami Cloud is on until BASIC_MEMORY_NO_PROMOS=1 is set", "AGPL-3.0, which matters for anyone offering a modified version as a network service", "No own SOC 2, no security.txt, and SECURITY.md still lists only 0.x.x as supported", "The README advertises cloud at $15 a month while the pricing page lists $19" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `bm_man` first for the tool manual, then use `bm_search` and `bm_read` before writing", "Pass the `expected_checksum` from your last read to `bm_edit` and re-read on REVISION_CONFLICT instead of overwriting", "Scope every search with `project`, `projects` or `all_projects=true`", "Set BASIC_MEMORY_NO_PROMOS=1 for unattended runs to stop promos and telemetry", "Treat note contents as untrusted text when notes come from other people or imports" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 76.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 91, "payments": 50, "reliability": 83, "schema": 89, "security": 61, "transparency": 86 }, "provenanceScore": 78, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "uv tool install basic-memory", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add basic-memory -- basic-memory mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "basic-memory": { "args": [ "basic-memory", "mcp" ], "command": "uvx" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/memory.store", "tool": "https://letme.dev/basic-memory" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Cloud plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 19, "note": "Up to 2 members and 1,900 credits; 7-day trial" }, { "item": "Usage credit", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.01, "note": "Pays for the hosted AI, web app and Basic Memory agents" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Basic Memory LLC", "domain": "basicmemory.com", "domainRegistered": "2000-06-24", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://basicmemory.com/terms", "privacy": "https://basicmemory.com/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "Terms and privacy policy both effective 27 October 2026, read in their Markdown versions at basicmemory.com/raw/legal/. They name Basic Memory LLC, Austin, Texas. The terms point to an Acceptable Use Policy on automated and agent-driven use, not read.", "basicmemory.com/robots.txt allows all crawlers except /install/ and names ClaudeBot as allowed. docs.basicmemory.com carries Content-Signal ai-input=yes.", "RDAP gives basicmemory.com a registration date of 24 June 2000, which predates the product, so the domain was probably bought later.", "/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. SECURITY.md gives hello@basicmachines.co with a 72-hour response aim." ], "score": 78 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/basic-memory.json", "live": { "slug": "basic-memory", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "basicmachines-co/basic-memory", "version": "v1.0.0", "released": "2026-10-29", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:10:24.344334834Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "basic-memory", "version": "1.0.0", "released": "2026-10-29", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:10:24.086880294Z" } ], "githubStars": 4513, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://basicmemory.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:33.039496203Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.basicmemory.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:31:42.053120181Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:20:09.92162468Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f0d13083be72" }, { "url": "https://basicmemory.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T13:59:59.298399437Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "653d0ae981d7" }, { "url": "https://basicmemory.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:00:03.097753192Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "bb02aea11329" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:33.039496203Z" } }, "answer": "Basic Memory scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against LocalGhost's 55.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LocalGhost leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "localghost", "name": "LocalGhost", "vendor": "LocalGhost", "vendorUrl": "https://www.localghost.ai", "kind": "platform", "category": "local-ai", "summary": "Open-source personal AI server that runs on a Debian machine its owner keeps, archiving photos, location, notes, voice and health data and reading them with local models, with its own Android app as the only client.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localghost.json", "dns": "localghost.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "pat", "authNotes": "No credential for third-party agents. The companion app presents a client certificate issued by the box's own certificate authority (ECDSA P-256, no scopes, good for two weeks and renewed daily while the phone is in use since 0.0.6) and a session token of at most 48 hours from a PIN unlock, sent in a header. Enrolment is one animated QR code carrying a `localghost://enroll` link whose query string holds the device's certificate and private key. Since 2 October 2026 the box draws that QR only on an interactive terminal and never prints the link as text, and after the first unlock the phone swaps the QR's key for one it makes in the Android Keystore and the box retires the QR's certificate (https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/main/server/internal/secd/rekey.go). A request without a valid certificate, from a retired phone or to a locked box gets the same 503. Since wisp 0.0.2 (2 October 2026) one phone can be retired by its key with ghost-cli ghost.secd retire or from another phone (POST /v1/devices/retire), and the retire button in the app isn't built yet. On a fresh box nginx terminates the phone's TLS and passes the device certificate to ghost.secd as an X-Client-Cert header that any local process on the box can forge, until the operator runs ghost-ctl edge-passthrough and writes tls to /etc/ghost/edge, after which ghost.secd checks the certificate itself (https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/main/server/internal/secd/edge.go).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "The software is free under MIT, with no subscription and no account. Nothing is on sale yet. Pre-built boxes are planned as a one-time purchase at the cost of parts and assembly plus a 30% margin, price not set, and optional future daemons may be sold as one-time packages. The June 2026 reference build is about £1,130 in parts (https://www.localghost.ai/about).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No payments of any kind. The software is free and nothing is sold yet (checked 2026-10-02).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 16, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-02" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/main/server/tools/README.md", "llmsTxt": "https://www.localghost.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "memory.store", "memory.search", "memory.user", "memory.delete" ], "tags": [ "local", "self-hosted", "open-source", "free", "go", "llms-txt", "no-telemetry", "pre-1.0", "uk" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-10", "graded": true, "own": true, "disclosure": "LocalGhost is built by Anchor Terminal's founder. Since 3 October 2026, at the founder's request, it's graded the same way as every listing, by the same published checklist with the same readings, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed. letme never picks it. Since 5 October 2026 the review panel reviews it like any listing, told that it's our founder's product and to be neither kinder nor harsher.", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.7, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 853, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 39, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 60, "reliability": 67, "schema": 49, "security": 50, "transparency": 78 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-10" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-02 to 2026-10-04. The 0.0.1 notes of 2 October said never a location leaves the box, and the 0.0.3 notes of 3 October called the Open-Meteo call the one position that ever left either device, while the phone sent its position, rounded to two decimals, to Open-Meteo for a weather question naming no place until 0.0.3, and handed its newest fix to Android's geocoder, which on phones with Google's services usually reaches Google, until 0.0.4. Both lookups are gone, and the privacy page and llms.txt list each with the release that ended it. A misleading claim, fixed and documented, so the minimum, -2. https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/v0.0.4/server/releases/0.0.4.md; https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost/blob/v0.0.3/server/releases/0.0.3.md; https://www.localghost.ai/privacy" ], "verdict": "LocalGhost keeps a person's photos, trail, notes, voice and health data on an encrypted volume on their own Debian machine and runs its models there, and its list of outbound requests matches the code. It's pre-1.0 at wisp 0.0.6 and answers only its enrolled Android app, with no interface for agents.", "bestFor": "One technical owner who wants a phone-first personal archive (photos, location trail, notes, voice, health, news and prices) kept and read by local models on their own hardware.", "disclosure": "LocalGhost is built by Anchor Terminal's founder. Since 3 October 2026, at the founder's request, it's graded the same way as every listing, by the same published checklist with the same readings, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed. letme never picks it. Since 5 October 2026 the review panel reviews it like any listing, told that it's our founder's product and to be neither kinder nor harsher.", "strengths": [ "MIT licence for the server and the Android app, with a reproducible server bundle, a signed APK and signed sums for each release", "The v0.0.6 sums verify against the site key, which security.txt, SECURITY.md and the repository pin by the same fingerprint", "The privacy page and llms.txt list every outbound request, and the hosts in the v0.0.6 code match the list", "No telemetry, analytics or crash reporting in the server or the app", "Volume key sealed to the TPM, a wipe PIN, and phone certificates that last two weeks, renew daily and can be retired one at a time" ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or credential for agents. The box answers only its enrolled phone", "The repository's checksum command finds no file, because SHA256SUMS lists the bundle under `server/`. The setup page's version strips the prefix and works", "Every API error reaches the phone as the same 503 page, so a client can't tell a bad request from a locked box", "Device certificates carry no scopes, so every enrolled phone has full owner rights, and a fresh box trusts a forgeable local header until the operator runs the edge passthrough", "The README's list of outbound requests still describes the weather pull of 0.0.5, three thousand places once a day, where the code and the privacy page say about six thousand, a hundred every two minutes" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't look for an API or MCP server. A LocalGhost box answers only its enrolled phone and returns the same 503 to every other caller", "Verify a release with the setup page's command, which strips the `server/` and `app/` prefixes from SHA256SUMS before `sha256sum -c`, or nothing is checked", "After setup, run `sudo ghost-ctl edge-passthrough --domain \u003cbox name\u003e` so ghost.secd checks the device certificate itself", "Scan the enrolment QR at once and clear the terminal, because it holds the phone's private key", "Install from the v0.0.6 release, which main pins" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 3, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 55.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 39, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 60, "reliability": 67, "schema": 49, "security": 50, "transparency": 81 }, "provenanceScore": 74, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-10", "maintenance": "2026-10-10", "payments": "2026-10-10", "reliability": "2026-10-10", "schema": "2026-10-10", "security": "2026-10-10", "transparency": "2026-10-10" }, "last": "2026-10-10", "lastMoved": "2026-10-28", "oldest": "2026-10-10", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/memory.store" }, "alsoIn": [ "personal-assistants" ], "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "LocalGhost.ai Ltd (company number 17213100, registered in England and Wales, incorporated 12 May 2026)", "domain": "localghost.ai", "domainRegistered": "2025-12-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.localghost.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://www.localghost.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "https://www.localghost.ai/status", "changelog": "https://www.localghost.ai/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-06", "notes": [ "LocalGhost.ai Ltd is active at Companies House (company number 17213100, incorporated 12 May 2026, registered office in London, checked 6 October 2026) and is named on the about, privacy and terms pages. The `LICENSE` copyright line reads LocalGhostDao, which the terms page also names as the copyright holder.", "Self-hosted software with no hosted endpoint. The privacy page (updated 5 October 2026) and the terms page (updated 3 October 2026) cover the website, the mirror and the software. The status page, updated by hand and last on 2 October 2026, covers the website, the mirror and the releases and records no incidents.", "www.localghost.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned a valid RFC 9116 file on 6 October 2026 (Contact, Expires 2027-10-01, Encryption, Preferred-Languages, Canonical, Policy). The key is the repository's server/tools/mirror-key.asc, fingerprint DCE9 A3D1 4EB4 6197 1DD5 F393 706E 4194 F08A 09A0, and the v0.0.6 SHA256SUMS.asc verified against it on 10 October 2026.", "The changelog page has a dated entry for each release from 0.0.1 to 0.0.6 and for mirror and page changes. RELEASES.md and server/releases/ in the code repository hold the notes per release.", "The privacy and mirror pages say the website and mirror keep no access logs. Whether the live server runs that configuration wasn't checked. The domain's registration date (17 December 2025, through Cloudflare, per the .ai RDAP record) is per the 3 October check." ], "score": 74 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.json", "live": { "slug": "localghost", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.localghost.ai/status", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T04:48:00.567459109Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "LocalGhostDao/localghost", "version": "v0.0.7", "released": "2026-10-23", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:41:17.291874611Z" } ], "githubStars": 17, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://localghost.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-10-01T00:00:00Z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:33.069535961Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.localghost.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:32:54.374669014Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "localghost.ai", "registered": "2025-12-17", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/localghost.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:12:26.676825255Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.localghost.ai/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:30:58.87482191Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-24T02:33:35.056983095Z", "fingerprint": "061f5343580e" }, { "url": "https://www.localghost.ai/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:31:00.879528436Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-24T02:33:37.068759386Z", "fingerprint": "f857f5ee0ba1" }, { "url": "https://www.localghost.ai/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:31:02.879194941Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-14T21:14:28.658360477Z", "fingerprint": "4808f470d93a" } ], "github": { "repo": "localghostdao/localghost", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T09:01:32.909025665Z", "stars": 17, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-11-01T22:42:18Z", "openIssues": 0, "openPRs": 0, "issuesOpened90d": 0, "issuesClosed90d": 1, "prsMerged90d": 1, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 50, "success": 26, "failure": 23, "other": 1, "latest": "failure", "latestAt": "2026-11-01T22:43:54Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 1, "unanswered": 0, "medianDays": 66.1 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:33.069535961Z" }, "vendorLinked": true }, "edges": [ { "by": 46, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "basic-memory", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "13 tools, one hidden unless enabled, so the 11 to 30 band (15), with 6 back for the manual tool and the progressive-discovery tags (21 of 25). Search narrows by mode, filters, note types, items, `since`, `path` and line context (18 of 20). Refusals are tool errors with typed codes an agent can act on (17 of 20). Every tool has readOnly, destructive and idempotent hints, and edits take an expected checksum that refuses a stale write (19 of 20). Most arguments are optional and the server starts with one command, but there is one language and no SDK beyond the CLI (10 of 15). Total 85.", "b": "Graded on the device API, as Schema is. `/v1/news` takes `since` and `limit`, the rate routes take `hours` or `days` and the Wikipedia route takes `n`, while `/v1/home` and `/v1/rates` return whole screens and nothing selects fields (12 of 25). `/v1/days` pages with `before` and `limit`, and `/v1/wiki` searches with `q` (12 of 20). edge.go folds every 400, 401, 403, 404 and 5xx a verified phone could get into the same 503 page, and the nginx path does the same with error_page, so the handlers' messages never reach the client and it can't tell a bad request from a locked box. Only a few statuses such as 409 pass through (2 of 20). Voice uploads are idempotent by id, `/v1/lock` is safe to repeat and trail deletion has a dry run, with no idempotency keys or retry guidance (10 of 20). The project's own Kotlin app is the only client, with no SDK and no documented way to enrol another (3 of 15)." }, "scores": { "a": 85, "b": 39 } }, { "by": 40, "category": "schema", "leads": "basic-memory", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Typed JSON Schema inputs on every tool from Pydantic annotations (25). llms.txt on the site and the docs, with Markdown versions of pages (10). Descriptions say what each tool does and point to the next tool, such as `bm_search` ending with \"Read full notes with bm_read\", and `bm_man` serves the manual, with less on when not to use a tool (16 of 20). Closed values for search mode, edit command and schema command, with aliases accepted for common argument names (13 of 15). Typed refusal codes are documented in the changelog and docs, with fewer worked examples per tool (11 of 15). Dated changelog and MCP registry versions, plus an unreleased breaking change after 1.0 (14 of 15). Total 89.", "b": "Graded on the HTTPS API that ghost.secd serves to enrolled phones under /v1, the only programmatic interface, as the Khoj and Open WebUI dossiers graded their HTTP APIs. There's no public API or MCP server, and the README and llms.txt say the box answers every other caller, an agent included, as if it were down. ghost.secd builds an OpenAPI 3.0 document from a route table and serves it at /v1/openapi.json only to enrolled devices. At v0.0.6 the table holds 49 paths while server.go registers 109 by hand (46 and 105 at v0.0.5), although the code comment says no route can exist outside the spec (8 of 25). llms.txt on www.localghost.ai and Markdown docs throughout the repository (10). Route summaries say what each call does and some say when to use it, and there's no API reference beyond them (8 of 20). Request and response shapes come from Go structs by reflection, but several shapes are marked loose with additionalProperties, request bodies among them, and query formats sit in summaries and handlers rather than in the spec (6 of 15). No API examples, and error statuses are folded into one 503 page by design, so no error responses are documented (3 of 15). /v1 prefixes, dated notes per release in server/releases/ and a dated changelog page (14 of 15)." }, "scores": { "a": 89, "b": 49 } }, { "by": 16, "category": "reliability", "leads": "basic-memory", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Local-software lines, as a stdio MCP server the owner runs. `basic-memory` on PyPI with Python 3.12 or newer stated, installed with uv (20). Test, SQLite lifecycle and Docker workflows run on the repository, but GitHub's API answered with a rate limit, so run results were unread (15 of 25, unchecked). 74 open issues and pull requests against 200 commits in the 90 days, with recent bug reports answered by a maintainer within days and one flaky-CI issue open (18 of 25). The changelog calls out breaking changes in their own sections (15). v1.0.0 on 29 October 2026 (15). Total 83.", "b": "Read with the local-software lines, as the Goose, Aider, Khoj, Screenpipe and Open WebUI dossiers do, and graded on wisp 0.0.6 (tag v0.0.6, commit 2c4786d, 10 October 2026), which main pins at c706f92. Each release carries a reproducible linux-amd64 server bundle with `install.sh`, a signed APK, a source archive and SHA256SUMS signed by the site key, on GitHub and the mirror, and the setup page states Debian 13 on x86-64, TPM 2.0, an optional NVIDIA card and Android 15 or later. The v0.0.6 signature verified for us on 10 October. There's no .deb or package-manager install (18 of 20). The CI workflow runs build, vet and the Go tests against Postgres on every push to main. We ran the Go suite at v0.0.6 and at c706f92 on 10 October and every package passed, TestFetchListAndSpools included, which failed at v0.0.5. The Postgres tests skip without a database, and neither the CI badge nor the Actions page showed us a result (20 of 25). shields.io showed 0 open and 1 closed issue on 6 October. The release notes name their own regressions and fix them in the release: 0.0.6 ships the fix for the Wikipedia import that stopped at an invalid byte and for /v1/wiki answering every phone with an empty body, while the CRYPTO50 index fault seen on 3 October is still unexplained (20 of 25). 0.0.x tags with dated notes per release that say what changed and how a phone on the previous release moves over, but no breaking-change section, and the v0.0.4 tag sits on a commit (1062b7f) that main doesn't contain (9 of 15). 0.0.6, pre-1.0 (0)." }, "scores": { "a": 83, "b": 67 } }, { "by": 12, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "basic-memory", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "v1.0.0 on 29 October 2026 (30). v0.24.0 and v0.24.1 on 22 October and v1.0.0, three releases in 90 days (20). Recent issues from outside users got maintainer replies within a few days (20 of 25). Verified namespace io.github.basicmachines-co/basic-memory in the official MCP registry, published by a workflow (15). uv.lock and CI, with an open report of an unmaintained dependency (6 of 10). Total 91.", "b": "wisp 0.0.6 tagged on 10 October 2026 (30). Six releases, v0.0.1 to v0.0.6, from 2 to 10 October, each with dated notes (20). shields.io shows 0 open and 1 closed issue and no open pull requests. Pull request #1 (July) is merged and #3 (28 July, a macOS test fix) isn't in main, and the 0.0.4 notes say most of that release answers two outside reviews of 0.0.3. GitHub's issue and pull-request pages refused us, so we couldn't see written replies or their timing (12 of 25). Not an MCP server and no SDK, read as current official builds as the Open WebUI dossier read this line. Each tag ships a signed server bundle, a signed APK and a source archive on GitHub and the mirror, with no package-manager channel, fewer channels than the PyPI, GHCR and desktop builds Open WebUI was credited 13 for (11 of 15). Go 1.27.1 since 0.0.4 and three direct Go dependencies, with golang.org/x/crypto at v0.31.0 from December 2024, no Dependabot, and the Go suite passing at v0.0.6 and on main in our run of 10 October (6 of 10)." }, "scores": { "a": 91, "b": 79 } }, { "by": 11, "category": "security", "leads": "basic-memory", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Local stdio server with no credential, and cloud OAuth 2.1 through WorkOS with read-only or project-scoped keys on Pro (22 of 30). Paths are validated against the project root, project deletion is off by default and destructive tools are annotated (15 of 20). SECURITY.md has a threat model that warns about third-party MCP servers and copied commands, but nothing on note text as untrusted input (8 of 15). A local log file, and cloud audit logs only on Business (8 of 15). SECURITY.md gives an email and a 72-hour response aim but lists only 0.x.x as supported; no security.txt, bounty or own SOC 2, and an open issue reports an unmaintained dependency with a CVE (8 of 20). Total 61.", "b": "Graded with the tool lines on how the phone reaches the box. Each phone holds a client certificate from the box's own CA (ECDSA P-256, no scopes) and a session token of at most 48 hours from a PIN unlock, sent in a header. Since 0.0.6 a certificate is good for two weeks and the phone renews it once a day while it talks to the box, re-signing the same key, and the QR's own certificate is good for an hour. One phone can be retired by its key since 0.0.2, and after the first unlock the phone swaps the QR's key for one it makes in the Android Keystore and the box retires the QR's certificate. That's 20 for revocable credentials with rotation and no scopes. The `localghost://enroll` link carries the device's certificate and private key in its query string, and we didn't take the 10 off. The Screenpipe dossier took it for a key documented as a `token` parameter on HTTP requests, and the Khoj dossier didn't for a key in a query string that wasn't a documented way to authenticate, so the line covers secrets in request URLs that pass through servers, proxies and logs. This link is drawn only as a QR on an interactive terminal and never printed as text (internal/pair/command.go), the app has no intent filter for the scheme and reads the QR with its own scanner, and the link never becomes a network request (20 of 30). Every enrolled phone has full owner rights, with no read-only device. Since 0.0.6 DEPLOY, ROLL BACK and LOCK BOX NOW ask for confirmation first and deleting a model, a notification, a connector or a chat takes a second tap, trail deletion has a dry run and a deploy runs on trial with automatic rollback, while the API's deletes run without a confirmation step (8 of 20). The box and phone pass news feeds, web search results, coin websites and Wikipedia text to the model, and we found no injection guidance. The daemons own the control flow, the model calls no tools, and some writers drop text carrying names or numbers not in their facts (6 of 15). Requests are logged at debug level only, and `ghost-cli ghost.secd devices` and Box Status show the enrolled phones and the daemons, with no per-call audit trail (5 of 15). security.txt valid to 1 October 2027, SECURITY.md with a 72-hour acknowledgement, a 14-day response, 90-day disclosure, a commitment not to take legal action and a promise to publish advisories after fixes, and a PGP key that also signs the releases. No bounty, no certification and no advisories published (11 of 20). On a fresh box ghost.secd trusts an X-Client-Cert header any local process can forge until the operator runs `ghost-ctl edge-passthrough`. The 0.0.5 and 0.0.6 notes list it as a known gap, since 0.0.6 secd checks a certificate's dates and retirement itself on every request, and the PIN is still needed, so it's weighed in the credential line rather than as an incident." }, "scores": { "a": 61, "b": 50 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "payments", "leads": "localghost", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "Self-hosted rule, with the price lines read for the cloud. No x402, MPP or L402 (0 of 40). Cloud plans are public, and credits are $0.01 each, but what a credit buys isn't priced per unit (10). The open-source server is free with no card (20). An agent can install it from PyPI and run it with no account (20). Total 50.", "b": "Read with the self-hosted rule, as the Khoj dossier did. Nothing is on sale. Pre-built boxes are planned at the cost of parts plus a 30 per cent margin with no price set, and the README's Ethereum donation address isn't a payment protocol on the tool's endpoints (0). Free under MIT with no account and no card, so 20, 20 and 20 on the last three lines." }, "scores": { "a": 50, "b": 60 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Basic Memory LLC", "b": "LocalGhost", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "stdio", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "Token", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "AGPL-3.0", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "13", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "io.github.basicmachines-co/basic-memory", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-29", "b": "2026-10-10", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-10-27", "b": "2026-10-03", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-10-27", "b": "2026-10-05", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "4.5k stars, 20k PyPI/wk", "b": "16 stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2/5 (3)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Basic Memory scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against LocalGhost's 55.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LocalGhost leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Basic Memory or LocalGhost?" }, { "answer": "Basic Memory runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. No hosted endpoint is listed for LocalGhost.", "question": "Can an agent call Basic Memory and LocalGhost without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Basic Memory is open source (AGPL-3.0). LocalGhost is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are Basic Memory and LocalGhost open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 83 against 67", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 49", "Agent ergonomics, 85 against 39", "Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 50", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 91 against 79" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "No key needed to call it", "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "Memory for coding agents and assistants kept as Markdown the user owns, with search and a graph.", "slug": "basic-memory", "watchFor": "1.0 removed every pre-1.0 tool and command with no aliases, so older agent instructions and allowlists break" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 50" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "One technical owner who wants a phone-first personal archive (photos, location trail, notes, voice, health, news and prices) kept and read by local models on their own hardware.", "slug": "localghost", "watchFor": "No API, MCP server or credential for agents. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-localghost.json", "title": "Khoj vs LocalGhost", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-localghost" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-privategpt.json", "title": "LocalGhost vs PrivateGPT", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-privategpt" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-screenpipe.json", "title": "LocalGhost vs screenpipe", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-screenpipe" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "basic-memory": 83, "by": 16, "edge": "basic-memory", "key": "reliability", "localghost": 67, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "basic-memory": 89, "by": 40, "edge": "basic-memory", "key": "schema", "localghost": 49, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "basic-memory": 85, "by": 46, "edge": "basic-memory", "key": "ergonomics", "localghost": 39, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "basic-memory": 61, "by": 11, "edge": "basic-memory", "key": "security", "localghost": 50, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "basic-memory": 50, "by": 10, "edge": "localghost", "key": "payments", "localghost": 60, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "basic-memory": 91, "by": 12, "edge": "basic-memory", "key": "maintenance", "localghost": 79, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "basic-memory": 82, "by": 4, "edge": "basic-memory", "key": "transparency", "localghost": 78, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Basic Memory scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against LocalGhost's 55.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LocalGhost leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do agent memory.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "basic-memory": "Basic Memory 1.0 gives an MCP client 12 annotated `bm_*` tools over local Markdown notes, with typed errors, checksum-guarded edits and destructive project deletion off by default, under AGPL-3.0. Version 1.0 of 29 October 2026 removed every pre-1.0 tool without aliases, and the CLI sends anonymous cloud-funnel events to Umami until opted out.", "localghost": "LocalGhost keeps a person's photos, trail, notes, voice and health data on an encrypted volume on their own Debian machine and runs its models there, and its list of outbound requests matches the code. It's pre-1.0 at wisp 0.0.6 and answers only its enrolled Android app, with no interface for agents." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-localghost", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-localghost.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-localghost.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-localghost.min.md" }, "markdown": "Basic Memory scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against LocalGhost's 55.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LocalGhost leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do agent memory.\n\n- Basic Memory: grade BB, 76.9/100, rank #38 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/basic-memory.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/basic-memory.json\n- LocalGhost: grade C, 55.7/100, rank #853 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localghost.json\n- Best memory layers for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-memory/index.md\n- All 353 memory comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-memory/index.md\n- Best local AI models and assistants: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/local-ai/index.md\n- All 280 local ai comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/local-ai/index.md\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 1251 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Basic Memory (BB)\n\nGood for: Memory for coding agents and assistants kept as Markdown the user owns, with search and a graph.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 83 against 67\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 49\n- Agent ergonomics, 85 against 39\n- Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 50\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 91 against 79\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- No key needed to call it\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: 1.0 removed every pre-1.0 tool and command with no aliases, so older agent instructions and allowlists break\n\n### LocalGhost (C)\n\nGood for: One technical owner who wants a phone-first personal archive (photos, location trail, notes, voice, health, news and prices) kept and read by local models on their own hardware.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 50\n\nWatch for: No API, MCP server or credential for agents. The box answers only its enrolled phone\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Basic Memory +46\n\n- Basic Memory (85): 13 tools, one hidden unless enabled, so the 11 to 30 band (15), with 6 back for the manual tool and the progressive-discovery tags (21 of 25). Search narrows by mode, filters, note types, items, `since`, `path` and line context (18 of 20). Refusals are tool errors with typed codes an agent can act on (17 of 20). Every tool has readOnly, destructive and idempotent hints, and edits take an expected checksum that refuses a stale write (19 of 20). Most arguments are optional and the server starts with one command, but there is one language and no SDK beyond the CLI (10 of 15). Total 85.\n- LocalGhost (39): Graded on the device API, as Schema is. `/v1/news` takes `since` and `limit`, the rate routes take `hours` or `days` and the Wikipedia route takes `n`, while `/v1/home` and `/v1/rates` return whole screens and nothing selects fields (12 of 25). `/v1/days` pages with `before` and `limit`, and `/v1/wiki` searches with `q` (12 of 20). edge.go folds every 400, 401, 403, 404 and 5xx a verified phone could get into the same 503 page, and the nginx path does the same with error_page, so the handlers' messages never reach the client and it can't tell a bad request from a locked box. Only a few statuses such as 409 pass through (2 of 20). Voice uploads are idempotent by id, `/v1/lock` is safe to repeat and trail deletion has a dry run, with no idempotency keys or retry guidance (10 of 20). The project's own Kotlin app is the only client, with no SDK and no documented way to enrol another (3 of 15).\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Basic Memory +40\n\n- Basic Memory (89): Typed JSON Schema inputs on every tool from Pydantic annotations (25). llms.txt on the site and the docs, with Markdown versions of pages (10). Descriptions say what each tool does and point to the next tool, such as `bm_search` ending with \"Read full notes with bm_read\", and `bm_man` serves the manual, with less on when not to use a tool (16 of 20). Closed values for search mode, edit command and schema command, with aliases accepted for common argument names (13 of 15). Typed refusal codes are documented in the changelog and docs, with fewer worked examples per tool (11 of 15). Dated changelog and MCP registry versions, plus an unreleased breaking change after 1.0 (14 of 15). Total 89.\n- LocalGhost (49): Graded on the HTTPS API that ghost.secd serves to enrolled phones under /v1, the only programmatic interface, as the Khoj and Open WebUI dossiers graded their HTTP APIs. There's no public API or MCP server, and the README and llms.txt say the box answers every other caller, an agent included, as if it were down. ghost.secd builds an OpenAPI 3.0 document from a route table and serves it at /v1/openapi.json only to enrolled devices. At v0.0.6 the table holds 49 paths while server.go registers 109 by hand (46 and 105 at v0.0.5), although the code comment says no route can exist outside the spec (8 of 25). llms.txt on www.localghost.ai and Markdown docs throughout the repository (10). Route summaries say what each call does and some say when to use it, and there's no API reference beyond them (8 of 20). Request and response shapes come from Go structs by reflection, but several shapes are marked loose with additionalProperties, request bodies among them, and query formats sit in summaries and handlers rather than in the spec (6 of 15). No API examples, and error statuses are folded into one 503 page by design, so no error responses are documented (3 of 15). /v1 prefixes, dated notes per release in server/releases/ and a dated changelog page (14 of 15).\n\n### Reliability: Basic Memory +16\n\n- Basic Memory (83): Local-software lines, as a stdio MCP server the owner runs. `basic-memory` on PyPI with Python 3.12 or newer stated, installed with uv (20). Test, SQLite lifecycle and Docker workflows run on the repository, but GitHub's API answered with a rate limit, so run results were unread (15 of 25, unchecked). 74 open issues and pull requests against 200 commits in the 90 days, with recent bug reports answered by a maintainer within days and one flaky-CI issue open (18 of 25). The changelog calls out breaking changes in their own sections (15). v1.0.0 on 29 October 2026 (15). Total 83.\n- LocalGhost (67): Read with the local-software lines, as the Goose, Aider, Khoj, Screenpipe and Open WebUI dossiers do, and graded on wisp 0.0.6 (tag v0.0.6, commit 2c4786d, 10 October 2026), which main pins at c706f92. Each release carries a reproducible linux-amd64 server bundle with `install.sh`, a signed APK, a source archive and SHA256SUMS signed by the site key, on GitHub and the mirror, and the setup page states Debian 13 on x86-64, TPM 2.0, an optional NVIDIA card and Android 15 or later. The v0.0.6 signature verified for us on 10 October. There's no .deb or package-manager install (18 of 20). The CI workflow runs build, vet and the Go tests against Postgres on every push to main. We ran the Go suite at v0.0.6 and at c706f92 on 10 October and every package passed, TestFetchListAndSpools included, which failed at v0.0.5. The Postgres tests skip without a database, and neither the CI badge nor the Actions page showed us a result (20 of 25). shields.io showed 0 open and 1 closed issue on 6 October. The release notes name their own regressions and fix them in the release: 0.0.6 ships the fix for the Wikipedia import that stopped at an invalid byte and for /v1/wiki answering every phone with an empty body, while the CRYPTO50 index fault seen on 3 October is still unexplained (20 of 25). 0.0.x tags with dated notes per release that say what changed and how a phone on the previous release moves over, but no breaking-change section, and the v0.0.4 tag sits on a commit (1062b7f) that main doesn't contain (9 of 15). 0.0.6, pre-1.0 (0).\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Basic Memory +12\n\n- Basic Memory (91): v1.0.0 on 29 October 2026 (30). v0.24.0 and v0.24.1 on 22 October and v1.0.0, three releases in 90 days (20). Recent issues from outside users got maintainer replies within a few days (20 of 25). Verified namespace io.github.basicmachines-co/basic-memory in the official MCP registry, published by a workflow (15). uv.lock and CI, with an open report of an unmaintained dependency (6 of 10). Total 91.\n- LocalGhost (79): wisp 0.0.6 tagged on 10 October 2026 (30). Six releases, v0.0.1 to v0.0.6, from 2 to 10 October, each with dated notes (20). shields.io shows 0 open and 1 closed issue and no open pull requests. Pull request #1 (July) is merged and #3 (28 July, a macOS test fix) isn't in main, and the 0.0.4 notes say most of that release answers two outside reviews of 0.0.3. GitHub's issue and pull-request pages refused us, so we couldn't see written replies or their timing (12 of 25). Not an MCP server and no SDK, read as current official builds as the Open WebUI dossier read this line. Each tag ships a signed server bundle, a signed APK and a source archive on GitHub and the mirror, with no package-manager channel, fewer channels than the PyPI, GHCR and desktop builds Open WebUI was credited 13 for (11 of 15). Go 1.27.1 since 0.0.4 and three direct Go dependencies, with golang.org/x/crypto at v0.31.0 from December 2024, no Dependabot, and the Go suite passing at v0.0.6 and on main in our run of 10 October (6 of 10).\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Basic Memory +11\n\n- Basic Memory (61): Local stdio server with no credential, and cloud OAuth 2.1 through WorkOS with read-only or project-scoped keys on Pro (22 of 30). Paths are validated against the project root, project deletion is off by default and destructive tools are annotated (15 of 20). SECURITY.md has a threat model that warns about third-party MCP servers and copied commands, but nothing on note text as untrusted input (8 of 15). A local log file, and cloud audit logs only on Business (8 of 15). SECURITY.md gives an email and a 72-hour response aim but lists only 0.x.x as supported; no security.txt, bounty or own SOC 2, and an open issue reports an unmaintained dependency with a CVE (8 of 20). Total 61.\n- LocalGhost (50): Graded with the tool lines on how the phone reaches the box. Each phone holds a client certificate from the box's own CA (ECDSA P-256, no scopes) and a session token of at most 48 hours from a PIN unlock, sent in a header. Since 0.0.6 a certificate is good for two weeks and the phone renews it once a day while it talks to the box, re-signing the same key, and the QR's own certificate is good for an hour. One phone can be retired by its key since 0.0.2, and after the first unlock the phone swaps the QR's key for one it makes in the Android Keystore and the box retires the QR's certificate. That's 20 for revocable credentials with rotation and no scopes. The `localghost://enroll` link carries the device's certificate and private key in its query string, and we didn't take the 10 off. The Screenpipe dossier took it for a key documented as a `token` parameter on HTTP requests, and the Khoj dossier didn't for a key in a query string that wasn't a documented way to authenticate, so the line covers secrets in request URLs that pass through servers, proxies and logs. This link is drawn only as a QR on an interactive terminal and never printed as text (internal/pair/command.go), the app has no intent filter for the scheme and reads the QR with its own scanner, and the link never becomes a network request (20 of 30). Every enrolled phone has full owner rights, with no read-only device. Since 0.0.6 DEPLOY, ROLL BACK and LOCK BOX NOW ask for confirmation first and deleting a model, a notification, a connector or a chat takes a second tap, trail deletion has a dry run and a deploy runs on trial with automatic rollback, while the API's deletes run without a confirmation step (8 of 20). The box and phone pass news feeds, web search results, coin websites and Wikipedia text to the model, and we found no injection guidance. The daemons own the control flow, the model calls no tools, and some writers drop text carrying names or numbers not in their facts (6 of 15). Requests are logged at debug level only, and `ghost-cli ghost.secd devices` and Box Status show the enrolled phones and the daemons, with no per-call audit trail (5 of 15). security.txt valid to 1 October 2027, SECURITY.md with a 72-hour acknowledgement, a 14-day response, 90-day disclosure, a commitment not to take legal action and a promise to publish advisories after fixes, and a PGP key that also signs the releases. No bounty, no certification and no advisories published (11 of 20). On a fresh box ghost.secd trusts an X-Client-Cert header any local process can forge until the operator runs `ghost-ctl edge-passthrough`. The 0.0.5 and 0.0.6 notes list it as a known gap, since 0.0.6 secd checks a certificate's dates and retirement itself on every request, and the PIN is still needed, so it's weighed in the credential line rather than as an incident.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: LocalGhost +10\n\n- Basic Memory (50): Self-hosted rule, with the price lines read for the cloud. No x402, MPP or L402 (0 of 40). Cloud plans are public, and credits are $0.01 each, but what a credit buys isn't priced per unit (10). The open-source server is free with no card (20). An agent can install it from PyPI and run it with no account (20). Total 50.\n- LocalGhost (60): Read with the self-hosted rule, as the Khoj dossier did. Nothing is on sale. Pre-built boxes are planned at the cost of parts plus a 30 per cent margin with no price set, and the README's Ethereum donation address isn't a payment protocol on the tool's endpoints (0). Free under MIT with no account and no card, so 20, 20 and 20 on the last three lines.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Basic Memory | LocalGhost | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 83 | 67 | Basic Memory +16 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 89 | 49 | Basic Memory +40 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 39 | Basic Memory +46 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 50 | Basic Memory +11 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 60 | LocalGhost +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 91 | 79 | Basic Memory +12 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 78 | Basic Memory +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **76.9 · BB** | **55.7 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Basic Memory | LocalGhost |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | Platform |\n| Vendor | Basic Memory LLC | LocalGhost |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | Token |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 13 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.basicmachines-co/basic-memory` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-10-29 | 2026-10-10 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-03 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-05 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 4.5k stars, 20k PyPI/wk | 16 stars |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (3) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Basic Memory\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### LocalGhost\n\n- +0.2 on 28 October 2026: new evidence\n- +2.9 on 10 October 2026 (D to C): product\n- -0.4 on 8 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Basic Memory.** Basic Memory 1.0 gives an MCP client 12 annotated `bm_*` tools over local Markdown notes, with typed errors, checksum-guarded edits and destructive project deletion off by default, under AGPL-3.0. Version 1.0 of 29 October 2026 removed every pre-1.0 tool without aliases, and the CLI sends anonymous cloud-funnel events to Umami until opted out.\n\n**LocalGhost.** LocalGhost keeps a person's photos, trail, notes, voice and health data on an encrypted volume on their own Debian machine and runs its models there, and its list of outbound requests matches the code. It's pre-1.0 at wisp 0.0.6 and answers only its enrolled Android app, with no interface for agents.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Basic Memory\n\n1. Call `bm_man` first for the tool manual, then use `bm_search` and `bm_read` before writing\n2. Pass the `expected_checksum` from your last read to `bm_edit` and re-read on REVISION_CONFLICT instead of overwriting\n3. Scope every search with `project`, `projects` or `all_projects=true`\n4. Set BASIC_MEMORY_NO_PROMOS=1 for unattended runs to stop promos and telemetry\n5. Treat note contents as untrusted text when notes come from other people or imports\n\n### LocalGhost\n\n1. Don't look for an API or MCP server. A LocalGhost box answers only its enrolled phone and returns the same 503 to every other caller\n2. Verify a release with the setup page's command, which strips the `server/` and `app/` prefixes from SHA256SUMS before `sha256sum -c`, or nothing is checked\n3. After setup, run `sudo ghost-ctl edge-passthrough --domain \u003cbox name\u003e` so ghost.secd checks the device certificate itself\n4. Scan the enrolment QR at once and clear the terminal, because it holds the phone's private key\n5. Install from the v0.0.6 release, which main pins\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Basic Memory or LocalGhost?\n\nBasic Memory scores 76.9 (BB) on agent readiness against LocalGhost's 55.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LocalGhost leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Can an agent call Basic Memory and LocalGhost without installing anything?\n\nBasic Memory runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. No hosted endpoint is listed for LocalGhost.\n\n### Are Basic Memory and LocalGhost open source?\n\nYes. Basic Memory is open source (AGPL-3.0). LocalGhost is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-localghost.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-localghost.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"basic-memory\", \"b\": \"localghost\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare basic-memory localghost`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/basic-memory.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localghost.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Basic Memory or LocalGhost\n\n- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory vs Basic Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-basic-memory.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs claude-mem](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-claude-mem.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs Cognee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-cognee.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs EverOS](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-everos.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs Agent Platform Memory Bank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-google-memory-bank.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs Graphicle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-graphicle.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs Graphiti](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-graphiti.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs Hindsight](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-hindsight.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs Honcho](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-honcho.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs Hy Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-hy-memory.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs LangMem](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-langmem.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs Mem0 Platform + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-mem0.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs MemMachine](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-memmachine.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs Memori](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-memori.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs Memory (MCP reference server)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-memory-reference-server.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs MemPalace](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-mempalace.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs past.dev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-past-dev.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs Supermemory API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-supermemory.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs Tokenrip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-tokenrip.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs Zep](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-zep.md)\n- [claude-mem vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-mem-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Cognee vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-localghost.md)\n- [EverOS vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/everos-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Agent Platform Memory Bank vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/google-memory-bank-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Graphiti vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphiti-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Hindsight vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hindsight-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Honcho vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Hy Memory vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy-memory-vs-localghost.md)\n- [LangMem vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-localghost.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs Mem0 Platform + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-mem0.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs MemMachine](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-memmachine.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs Memori](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-memori.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs Memory (MCP reference server)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-memory-reference-server.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs MemPalace](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-mempalace.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs past.dev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-past-dev.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs Supermemory API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-supermemory.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs Tokenrip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-tokenrip.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs Zep](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-zep.md)\n- [AI Memory vs Basic Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ai-memory-vs-basic-memory.md)\n- [AnythingLLM vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Basic Memory vs Context Mode Engine](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/basic-memory-vs-context-mode.md)\n- [Core vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-localghost.md)\n- [GPT4All vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Khoj vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-localghost.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs PrivateGPT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-privategpt.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs screenpipe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-screenpipe.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- LocalGhost is built by Anchor Terminal's founder. 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