YAMS — Yet Another Memory System¶

Persistent, searchable memory for your code, documents, and AI workflows. Store once, find anything, never lose context.

Experimental Software

YAMS is under active development. Expect bugs and breaking changes. Wait for 1.0 for production use.

Why YAMS¶

Store anything, find it later. Content-addressed storage with automatic deduplication and compression.
Search by meaning, not just keywords. Hybrid full-text + vector embeddings.
Works with your tools. CLI, MCP server for AI assistants, C-ABI plugin architecture.

brew install trvon/yams/yams       # or see Install below
yams init
echo "hello world" | yams add - --tags demo
yams search hello

YAMS runs as an MCP server over stdio (JSON-RPC).

yams serve

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yams": { "command": "yams", "args": ["serve"] }
  }
}

Platform	Command
macOS (Homebrew)	`brew install trvon/yams/yams`
Debian / Ubuntu	APT repo — see installation.md#apt
Fedora / RHEL	DNF repo — see installation.md#dnf
Docker	`docker pull ghcr.io/trvon/yams:latest`
From source	See BUILD.md

Supported: Linux x86_64/ARM64, macOS x86_64/ARM64, Windows x86_64.