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Hosted-service restrictions under Elastic License 2.0.", "bestFor": "Context Mode Engine indexes tool output and session events locally for coding agents.", "strengths": [ "Local indexing and selective retrieval", "MCP-only and client-hook installation paths", "Public source for permission checks" ], "weaknesses": [ "Hosted-service restrictions under Elastic License 2.0", "Client hook support differs", "Sampled CI failures and older GitHub release need investigation" ], "agentNotes": [ "Choose the installation guide for the exact coding client.", "Check host permissions before enabling code execution.", "Review the Elastic licence before hosting Engine for others." ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 46.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 10, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 65, "security": 35, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 47, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-19", "maintenance": "2026-10-19", "payments": "2026-10-19", "reliability": "2026-10-19", "schema": "2026-10-19", "security": "2026-10-19", "transparency": "2026-10-19" }, "last": "2026-10-19", "lastMoved": "2026-10-27", "oldest": "2026-10-19", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "config": { "mcpServers": { "context-mode": { "args": [ "-y", "context-mode" ], "command": "npx" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/memory.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/context-mode" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "MKSF LTD", "domain": "context-mode.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mksglu/context-mode/main/LICENSE", "privacy": "https://context-mode.com/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/mksglu/context-mode/releases", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-19", "notes": [ "Assessment covers the named repository. 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Context Mode Engine leads on security \u0026 auth.", "b": { "slug": "tencentdb-agent-memory", "name": "TencentDB Agent Memory", "vendor": "Tencent Cloud", "vendorUrl": "https://github.com/TencentCloud/TencentDB-Agent-Memory", "kind": "http-api", "category": "agent-memory", "summary": "TencentDB Agent Memory is Tencent Cloud's MIT-licensed, self-hosted memory stack for coding agents. A proxy injects layered conversation memory, skills, wiki pages and code graphs into each request, with a team panel and HTTP API over SQLite.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tencentdb-agent-memory", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tencentdb-agent-memory.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tencentdb-agent-memory.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tencentdb-agent-memory.json", "repo": "https://github.com/TencentCloud/TencentDB-Agent-Memory", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "oci", "name": "agentmemory/memory-core" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "agentmemory/memory-hub" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "agentmemory/memory-proxy" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tencentdb-agent-memory/memory-tencentdb" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@tencentdb-agent-memory/memory-sdk-ts-v2" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-hosted, with no Tencent account. Agents reach memory through the proxy with a per-user key (`sk-mem-...`) sent as the Anthropic or OpenAI auth token, which the proxy checks against Memory Core. Users can hold several revocable keys, and the panel can log in through an OAuth2 identity provider. Memory Core's own bearer gate (`MEMORY_CORE_GATEWAY_API_KEY`) is empty by default, data-plane routes need only the `x-tdai-service-id` header, and the proxy's admin routes have no authentication (https://github.com/TencentCloud/TencentDB-Agent-Memory/blob/master/MemoryCore/v3-api-memorycore-doc.md).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under MIT, with nothing to buy and no signup. The owner pays for the LLM calls that extract L1 to L3 memory, build wiki pages and code graphs and answer through the proxy, at whichever OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible provider is configured (https://github.com/TencentCloud/TencentDB-Agent-Memory/blob/master/INSTALL.md).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, install guide, API references or changelog read on 30 October 2026. 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The default deployment publishes its ports on all host interfaces with the core's bearer gate off, data-plane deletes trust a service-ID header, and the proxy's rate-limit and session admin routes have no authentication.", "bestFor": "Small teams that run several coding agents on a host they control and want shared, permissioned memory, skills and code context injected through a proxy.", "strengths": [ "MIT licence in the repository and on every npm package, with three multi-architecture Docker images on Docker Hub's agentmemory account", "Layered recall from L3 persona and L2 scenarios down to L1 atoms and raw L0 conversation, with hybrid BM25 and vector search", "Assets are private by default, with team, restricted (user, role and agent ACLs) and agent visibility, and per-user revocable keys", "Coding agents join through the proxy by changing a base URL, for Claude Code, Codex, CodeBuddy, OpenCode, DeepSeek Harness and others", "Seven releases from 2.0.0 on 3 August to 2.0.3 on 26 October 2026, each in a dated Keep a Changelog file" ], "weaknesses": [ "The core's bearer gate is off by default, and the deploy notes say enabling it breaks the proxy's auth and session setup", "Data-plane deletes and chat-memory clears make no user-level check, trusting the bearer gate and `x-tdai-service-id`, per the API reference", "The proxy's rate-limit routes (GET, PUT, DELETE) and session admin routes have no authentication, per its own API reference", "No SECURITY.md on either branch, no security.txt and no disclosure route named for the project", "The npm OpenClaw plugin's postinstall rewrites the installed OpenClaw's files with sed, output silenced, unless skipped" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `MEMORY_CORE_GATEWAY_API_KEY`, `KNOWLEDGE_SERVICE_KEY` and a non-default admin key before exposing ports 8420, 8424, 8096 or 8125 beyond the host", "In headless runs send `x-team-id`, `x-agent-id` and `x-task-id` headers to the proxy. Without all three it falls back to an interactive picker and skips memory", "Expect every proxied turn to be stored. The proxy records upstream messages and model replies to Memory Core, and injected memory lands in your system prompt", "Check `data.valid` on `/v3/meta/auth/verify` and `data.isError` on `/v3/tools/call`. Both can fail inside a success envelope", "Retry `/v3/session/add` only on 500, 503 or a network error. 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All rights reserved.' above the MIT text, and the README footer reads '© TencentDB Agent Memory Team'. No fuller legal name was found.", "The repository is in GitHub's TencentCloud organisation. The 2.0.0 changelog and main-branch links still use github.com/Tencent/TencentDB-Agent-Memory, and raw files answer at both paths. The project has no website of its own. RDAP at Verisign gives tencent.com a registration date of 14 September 1998.", "No terms or privacy policy applies beyond the MIT licence. Self-hosted, so no status page.", "security.txt returns 404 on www.tencent.com. www.tencentcloud.com answers with a bot check, so its security.txt wasn't read. Neither branch has SECURITY.md.", "github.com pages and api.github.com weren't read. github.com/robots.txt couldn't be fetched from our session, so the host was left alone, and api.github.com is closed by the session's proxy. Files were read from raw.githubusercontent.com, which has no robots.txt (404)." ], "score": 75 }, "requirements": { "card": "no", "freeTier": true, "minutes": 30, "credential": "api-key", "hosting": [ "self-hosted" ], "euResidency": "unknown", "trainsOnData": "no", "zeroRetention": "unknown", "selfHost": "yes" }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tencentdb-agent-memory.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "MKSF LTD", "b": "Tencent Cloud", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "stdio", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Elastic License 2.0, source available with restrictions on hosted or managed services.", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "11", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-06-29", "b": "2026-10-26", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "31k stars", "b": "2.2k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.5/5 (4)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "TencentDB Agent Memory scores 56 (C) on agent readiness against Context Mode Engine's 46.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Context Mode Engine leads on security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Context Mode Engine or TencentDB Agent Memory?" }, { "answer": "Context Mode Engine needs no key. TencentDB Agent Memory needs an API key.", "question": "Do Context Mode Engine and TencentDB Agent Memory need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Context Mode Engine runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. No hosted endpoint is listed for TencentDB Agent Memory.", "question": "Can an agent call Context Mode Engine and TencentDB Agent Memory without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Context Mode Engine. TencentDB Agent Memory is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are Context Mode Engine and TencentDB Agent Memory open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 35 against 30" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "Context Mode Engine indexes tool output and session events locally for coding agents.", "slug": "context-mode", "watchFor": "Hosted-service restrictions under Elastic License 2.0" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 51 against 45", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 70 against 10", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 46" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Small teams that run several coding agents on a host they control and want shared, permissioned memory, skills and code context injected through a proxy.", "slug": "tencentdb-agent-memory", "watchFor": "The core's bearer gate is off by default, and the deploy notes say enabling it 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Both do memory search.\n\n- Context Mode Engine: grade D, 46.2/100, rank #1034 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/context-mode.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/context-mode.json\n- TencentDB Agent Memory: grade C, 56/100, rank #767 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tencentdb-agent-memory.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tencentdb-agent-memory.json\n- Best memory layers for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-memory/index.md\n- All 188 memory comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-memory/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Context Mode Engine (D)\n\nGood for: Context Mode Engine indexes tool output and session events locally for coding agents.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 35 against 30\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: Hosted-service restrictions under Elastic License 2.0\n\n### TencentDB Agent Memory (C)\n\nGood for: Small teams that run several coding agents on a host they control and want shared, permissioned memory, skills and code context injected through a proxy.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 51 against 45\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 70 against 10\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 46\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The core's bearer gate is off by default, and the deploy notes say enabling it breaks the proxy's auth and session setup\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Context Mode Engine | TencentDB Agent Memory | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 51 | TencentDB Agent Memory +6 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 61 | Context Mode Engine +4 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 68 | TencentDB Agent Memory +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 35 | 30 | Context Mode Engine +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 60 | TencentDB Agent Memory +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 10 | 70 | TencentDB Agent Memory +60 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 46 | 68 | TencentDB Agent Memory +22 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **46.2 · D** | **56 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Context Mode Engine | TencentDB Agent Memory |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | MKSF LTD | Tencent Cloud |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Elastic License 2.0, source available with restrictions on hosted or managed services. | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 11 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-06-29 | 2026-10-26 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Popularity | 31k stars | 2.2k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Context Mode Engine.** Local indexing and selective retrieval. Hosted-service restrictions under Elastic License 2.0.\n\n**TencentDB Agent Memory.** A self-hosted team memory stack with layered recall, per-asset visibility and ACLs, documented HTTP APIs and frequent releases, 2.0.0 to 2.0.3 since August. The default deployment publishes its ports on all host interfaces with the core's bearer gate off, data-plane deletes trust a service-ID header, and the proxy's rate-limit and session admin routes have no authentication.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Context Mode Engine\n\n1. Choose the installation guide for the exact coding client.\n2. Check host permissions before enabling code execution.\n3. Review the Elastic licence before hosting Engine for others.\n\n### TencentDB Agent Memory\n\n1. Set `MEMORY_CORE_GATEWAY_API_KEY`, `KNOWLEDGE_SERVICE_KEY` and a non-default admin key before exposing ports 8420, 8424, 8096 or 8125 beyond the host\n2. In headless runs send `x-team-id`, `x-agent-id` and `x-task-id` headers to the proxy. Without all three it falls back to an interactive picker and skips memory\n3. Expect every proxied turn to be stored. The proxy records upstream messages and model replies to Memory Core, and injected memory lands in your system prompt\n4. Check `data.valid` on `/v3/meta/auth/verify` and `data.isError` on `/v3/tools/call`. Both can fail inside a success envelope\n5. Retry `/v3/session/add` only on 500, 503 or a network error. The API reference says it isn't idempotent and writes a new object each call\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Context Mode Engine or TencentDB Agent Memory?\n\nTencentDB Agent Memory scores 56 (C) on agent readiness against Context Mode Engine's 46.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Context Mode Engine leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Do Context Mode Engine and TencentDB Agent Memory need an API key?\n\nContext Mode Engine needs no key. TencentDB Agent Memory needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Context Mode Engine and TencentDB Agent Memory without installing anything?\n\nContext Mode Engine runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. No hosted endpoint is listed for TencentDB Agent Memory.\n\n### Are Context Mode Engine and TencentDB Agent Memory open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Context Mode Engine. TencentDB Agent Memory is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-mode-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-mode-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"context-mode\", \"b\": \"tencentdb-agent-memory\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare context-mode tencentdb-agent-memory`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/context-mode.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tencentdb-agent-memory.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Context Mode Engine or TencentDB Agent Memory\n\n- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [claude-mem vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-mem-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [Cognee vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [Graphiti vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphiti-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [Hindsight vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hindsight-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [Honcho vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [Hy Memory vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy-memory-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [LangMem vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langmem-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [LocalGhost vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [Mem0 Platform + MCP vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mem0-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [Memory (MCP reference server) vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/memory-reference-server-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [MemPalace vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mempalace-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [past.dev vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/past-dev-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [Supermemory API + MCP vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/supermemory-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [TencentDB Agent Memory vs Tokenrip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tencentdb-agent-memory-vs-tokenrip.md)\n- [TencentDB Agent Memory vs Zep](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tencentdb-agent-memory-vs-zep.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory vs Context Mode Engine](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-memory-vs-context-mode.md)\n- [AI Memory vs Context Mode Engine](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ai-memory-vs-context-mode.md)\n- [AI Memory vs TencentDB Agent Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ai-memory-vs-tencentdb-agent-memory.md)\n- [claude-mem vs Context Mode Engine](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-mem-vs-context-mode.md)\n- [Cognee vs Context Mode Engine](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-context-mode.md)\n- [Context Mode Engine vs Graphicle](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-mode-vs-graphicle.md)\n- [Context Mode Engine vs Graphiti](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-mode-vs-graphiti.md)\n- [Context Mode Engine vs Hindsight](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-mode-vs-hindsight.md)\n- [Context Mode Engine vs Honcho](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-mode-vs-honcho.md)\n- [Context Mode Engine vs Hy Memory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-mode-vs-hy-memory.md)\n- [Context Mode Engine vs Khoj](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-mode-vs-khoj.md)\n- [Context Mode Engine vs LangMem](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-mode-vs-langmem.md)\n- [Context Mode Engine vs Mem0 Platform + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-mode-vs-mem0.md)\n- [Context Mode Engine vs MemPalace](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-mode-vs-mempalace.md)\n- [Context Mode Engine vs 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