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Jan Heimes•July 28, 2025

Enable Long-Term Memory in Any LLM with Needle
Turn your LLM into a knowledge-powered assistant with semantic search over your documents in 5 minutes.
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Give your Open WebUI LLM long-term memory (RAG/semantic search) with Needle tools—setup takes 5 minutes.
Three simple steps
- Start the Needle MCP Server locally
- Connect it to Open WebUI
- Test with natural language queries
What you get
- Semantic search across all your documents
- Natural language queries that understand context
- Perfect recall for your AI assistant
Ready to upgrade your LLM? Get your Needle API key and follow the full guide on Substack.