Getting started

Engram CaaS documentation

Everything technical about Engram in one place: how to load documents, how to ask them questions from your own tools, and how to run the workspace around them. Pick an area on the left, or start with the guides below.

What Engram is

Engram turns a set of documents into a document base: the documents are read once, compiled into resident memory on our serving hardware, and from then on any question is answered straight from that memory, with the documents it drew on named as sources. You do not run a retrieval pipeline, chunk anything, or pay per document to keep it ready. You load documents, wait for onboarding to finish, and ask.

Three surfaces sit on top of every document base, and each has its own section here:

MCP: expose every document base in your workspace as a tool to Claude, Cursor or any MCP-capable client, so your agents query them instead of ingesting the documents themselves.
CLI: engram pushes folders, manages document bases and keys, prints the MCP config block, and scripts cleanly with --json.
REST API: the same operations over HTTPS with an API key, for anything you build yourself.

Start here

Your first document baseSign in, load a handful of files, watch onboarding, ask a question. Ten minutes. Install the CLIOne command with pipx or uv. The fastest way to load a large or cloud-hosted document set. Connect Claude over MCPPoint a client at your workspace and let it answer from your documents. Call the REST APICreate a key, create a document base, load documents, ask.

Which path to use

You want to	Use
Load a few files from your laptop	The app's onboarding wizard
Load a large folder, or keep a folder in sync	CLI push
Keep a Drive folder or a SharePoint library in sync	The Sources section of the Documents tab
Keep an S3 bucket in sync	The CLI
Let an AI assistant or agent answer from the documents	MCP
Build your own integration	REST API and webhooks

How to read these pages

Code blocks have a copy button. Placeholders look like <your key>. Every example targets the production API at https://api.engramdynamics.org; the app is at https://app.engramdynamics.org. Where a feature belongs to a paid plan, the page says which one and links to plans and allowances, which is the one place the numbers live.