Act on this, mostly signal

Renor serves Markdown memory to coding agents over MCP

What to do

Point Renor at a local notes folder to give coding agents shared memory.

Why

AGPL self-hosted engine runs with no embeddings or network by default and needs Node 22.

What the research found

Renor is an AGPL self-hosted Markdown memory engine that serves a local notes folder to coding agents over MCP, requiring Node 22 and running with no embeddings or network by default.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

Renor requires Node 22 and runs as a self-hosted stdio MCP server over a local Markdown notes folder 97%
With no embedding provider set, Renor uses no embedding model and sends nothing off the machine 98%
Renor is licensed under AGPL 98%
Setting EMBEDDING_PROVIDER=openai sends note text to OpenAI for embedding 99%

Evidence

github.com https://github.com/patrickpassosb/renor-engine

Actionability rated medium.