com.brick-byte/footnote MCP Server

Name: com.brick-byte/footnote MCP Server
Author: com.brick-byte

com.brick-byte/footnote

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Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

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Environment / auth

DATABASE_URL
secret
Postgres connection string. Omit to use the built-in SQLite sample database.
PROVENANCE_DB
Path to the SQLite provenance log. Defaults to in-memory, which discards the trail on exit.
PROVENANCE_ACTOR
Identity recorded against each provenance record. In production this comes from the request's auth.

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "footnote": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@brick-byte/footnote"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATABASE_URL": "<YOUR_DATABASE_URL>",
        "PROVENANCE_DB": "<YOUR_PROVENANCE_DB>",
        "PROVENANCE_ACTOR": "<YOUR_PROVENANCE_ACTOR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "footnote": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@brick-byte/footnote"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATABASE_URL": "<YOUR_DATABASE_URL>",
        "PROVENANCE_DB": "<YOUR_PROVENANCE_DB>",
        "PROVENANCE_ACTOR": "<YOUR_PROVENANCE_ACTOR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "footnote": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@brick-byte/footnote"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATABASE_URL": "<YOUR_DATABASE_URL>",
        "PROVENANCE_DB": "<YOUR_PROVENANCE_DB>",
        "PROVENANCE_ACTOR": "<YOUR_PROVENANCE_ACTOR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "footnote": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@brick-byte/footnote"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATABASE_URL": "<YOUR_DATABASE_URL>",
        "PROVENANCE_DB": "<YOUR_PROVENANCE_DB>",
        "PROVENANCE_ACTOR": "<YOUR_PROVENANCE_ACTOR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add footnote --env DATABASE_URL=<YOUR_DATABASE_URL> --env PROVENANCE_DB=<YOUR_PROVENANCE_DB> --env PROVENANCE_ACTOR=<YOUR_PROVENANCE_ACTOR> -- npx -y @brick-byte/footnote