Cline MCP Memory Bank

Cline MCP Memory Bank enabling AI coding agents to maintain persistent project knowledge across sessions — storing project context, architectural decisions, coding conventions, and work-in-progress state in a structured memory bank, enabling Cline AI coding assistant (and other agents) to resume work with full project context without re-reading the entire codebase.

Evaluated Mar 07, 2026 (0d ago) vcurrent
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⚙ Agent Friendliness
78
/ 100
Can an agent use this?
🔒 Security
82
/ 100
Is it safe for agents?
⚡ Reliability
69
/ 100
Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality
68
Documentation
72
Error Messages
68
Auth Simplicity
98
Rate Limits
95

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement
82
Auth Strength
85
Scope Granularity
75
Dep. Hygiene
72
Secret Handling
90

Local file. No external calls. Memory may have sensitive code context. Restrict file access. Community MCP.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA
72
Version Stability
68
Breaking Changes
68
Error Recovery
68
AF Security Reliability

Best When

A Cline user needs persistent project knowledge across coding sessions — the memory bank stores architectural context so Cline can resume work without re-reading the entire codebase.

Avoid When

You don't use Cline as your AI coding assistant, or need general-purpose memory rather than project-scoped knowledge.

Use Cases

  • Persisting project architecture and conventions across coding sessions from Cline agents
  • Storing work-in-progress context to resume interrupted development tasks from coding agents
  • Maintaining project-specific coding standards for consistent code generation from developer agents
  • Accumulating project knowledge incrementally over many sessions from long-term agents
  • Sharing project context between multiple agent sessions from parallel development agents
  • Reducing context window usage by externalizing stable project knowledge from efficient agents

Not For

  • Non-Cline agent workflows (optimized for Cline's memory bank format)
  • Large-scale production knowledge management (project-scoped tool)
  • Real-time collaboration between multiple concurrent users

Interface

REST API
No
GraphQL
No
gRPC
No
MCP Server
Yes
SDK
No
Webhooks
No

Authentication

Methods: none
OAuth: No Scopes: No

No authentication — local file-based memory bank. Memory stored in project directory or configured path.

Pricing

Model: free
Free tier: Yes
Requires CC: No

Free, open source community MCP memory bank for Cline users.

Agent Metadata

Pagination
none
Idempotent
Full
Retry Guidance
Not documented

Known Gotchas

  • Optimized for Cline's specific memory bank format — other agents may not interpret structure correctly
  • Memory bank grows over time — periodic pruning of stale entries needed for large projects
  • Local file storage — no encryption; memory bank may contain sensitive code context
  • Memory bank format evolving — verify compatibility with current Cline version
  • Project-scoped — separate memory bank per project; doesn't share knowledge across projects
  • Community MCP — actively maintained by Cline community contributor

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-07.

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