The self-hosted server artexis10/exomem, which makes Obsidian/Markdown vaults searchable from any MCP client, released v0.121.0 on October 16, 2026. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a specification used to connect AI with external tools and materials. Two things are settled in this release. The cloud media engine's default is now defined at the farm (farm) level, and a single farm switch provides artifact brokering for each cell (cell). The release notes state these two changes exactly that way.
exomem performs hybrid search over corpora (corpus) whose data format and management criteria are defined. The search targets are not limited to text but extend to PDF, Office documents, images, and audio. The repository description also cites a figure of under one second for 50k notes. Files remain plain Markdown, so no separate storage format is required. The configuration that is at once a self-hosted server and keeps files as plain Markdown is what stands out about this project.
That said, the under-one-second figure is a value the repository itself presents, and there is no independently verified material. Neither a license nor a separate benchmark is included in the provided material. The repository has 10 stars. The release notes do not include term definitions or usage procedures for the new path involving farm, cell, and artifact brokering. So the search capability can be read within the described scope, but it is hard to judge from the release notes alone what the new engine path actually provides.