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ReasoningBank-MCP
by hanw39
filesystem
by modelcontextprotocol
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AI / LLM ToolsDeveloper ToolsKnowledge Graph
File SystemDeveloper ToolsProductivity
LanguagePythonTypeScript
Last commit7 mo agothis month

ReasoningBank-MCP · Summary

A production-ready MCP server implementing ReasoningBank: Memory as Test-Time Compute Scaling for AI agents to evolve reasoning capabilities through experience.

filesystem · Summary

A feature-rich MCP server for filesystem operations with dynamic directory access control.

ReasoningBank-MCP · Use cases

  • Long-running AI agents that accumulate experience over multiple interactions
  • Multi-agent systems where different agents need isolated memory pools
  • Complex problem-solving domains where past successful strategies should inform future approaches

filesystem · Use cases

  • Enable AI models to read and write project files during development
  • Allow Claude or other MCP clients to browse and analyze codebases
  • Provide secure sandboxed access to specific directories for content generation

ReasoningBank-MCP · Install

Installation

  1. Clone and navigate to the repository:
git clone https://github.com/hanw39/ReasoningBank-MCP.git
cd ReasoningBank-MCP
  1. Install dependencies:
pip install -e .

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add to your Claude Desktop configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "reasoning-bank": {
      "command": "reasoning-bank-mcp",
      "env": {
        "DASHSCOPE_API_KEY": "your_dashscope_api_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Or for SSE mode:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "reasoning-bank": {
      "url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/sse"
    }
  }
}

filesystem · Install

Installation

Using NPX

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",
        "/path/to/allowed/directory"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Using Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "--mount", "type=bind,src=/path/to/allowed/dir,dst=/projects/allowed/dir",
        "mcp/filesystem",
        "/projects"
      ]
    }
  }
}

VS Code Extension

Click the installation buttons in the README to install directly in VS Code.

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