Notes MCP Server

Name: Notes MCP Server
Author: io.github.Abhishekkumar2021

io.github.Abhishekkumar2021/notes

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What is the Notes MCP server?

Local markdown notes: ranked + semantic search, tags, todos, and a wiki-link knowledge graph.

How to install Notes

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

NOTES_DIR
Directory containing your markdown notes (defaults to ~/notes).
NOTES_READONLY
Set to 1 or true to disable all note-modifying tools.
NOTES_MODEL_DIR
Where the semantic-search embedding model is cached.

Claude Desktop

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "notes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@abhishekmcp/notes"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NOTES_DIR": "<YOUR_NOTES_DIR>",
        "NOTES_READONLY": "<YOUR_NOTES_READONLY>",
        "NOTES_MODEL_DIR": "<YOUR_NOTES_MODEL_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "notes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@abhishekmcp/notes"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NOTES_DIR": "<YOUR_NOTES_DIR>",
        "NOTES_READONLY": "<YOUR_NOTES_READONLY>",
        "NOTES_MODEL_DIR": "<YOUR_NOTES_MODEL_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "notes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@abhishekmcp/notes"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NOTES_DIR": "<YOUR_NOTES_DIR>",
        "NOTES_READONLY": "<YOUR_NOTES_READONLY>",
        "NOTES_MODEL_DIR": "<YOUR_NOTES_MODEL_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "notes": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@abhishekmcp/notes"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NOTES_DIR": "<YOUR_NOTES_DIR>",
        "NOTES_READONLY": "<YOUR_NOTES_READONLY>",
        "NOTES_MODEL_DIR": "<YOUR_NOTES_MODEL_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add notes --env NOTES_DIR=<YOUR_NOTES_DIR> --env NOTES_READONLY=<YOUR_NOTES_READONLY> --env NOTES_MODEL_DIR=<YOUR_NOTES_MODEL_DIR> -- npx -y @abhishekmcp/notes

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