MCP Server

Project Brain MCP Server

Name: Project Brain MCP Server
Author: io.github.Gentleelephant

io.github.Gentleelephant/project-brain

Repository Registry

What is the Project Brain MCP server?

Read-only source search and retrieval across configured GitHub repositories

How to install Project Brain

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

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

Environment / auth

PROJECT_BRAIN_REPO_LIST
required
Comma-separated owner/repo slugs or a path to a file with one slug per line
PROJECT_BRAIN_STATE_DIR
required
Writable directory for repository caches, indexes, and locks
PB_GITHUB_TOKEN
secret
Optional GitHub token for private repositories
PB_FETCH_TTL
Minimum interval between on-demand repository refreshes

Claude Desktop

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "project-brain": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/gentleelephant/project-brain:v2.0.3"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROJECT_BRAIN_REPO_LIST": "<YOUR_PROJECT_BRAIN_REPO_LIST>",
        "PROJECT_BRAIN_STATE_DIR": "<YOUR_PROJECT_BRAIN_STATE_DIR>",
        "PB_GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_PB_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "PB_FETCH_TTL": "<YOUR_PB_FETCH_TTL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "project-brain": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/gentleelephant/project-brain:v2.0.3"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROJECT_BRAIN_REPO_LIST": "<YOUR_PROJECT_BRAIN_REPO_LIST>",
        "PROJECT_BRAIN_STATE_DIR": "<YOUR_PROJECT_BRAIN_STATE_DIR>",
        "PB_GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_PB_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "PB_FETCH_TTL": "<YOUR_PB_FETCH_TTL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "project-brain": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/gentleelephant/project-brain:v2.0.3"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROJECT_BRAIN_REPO_LIST": "<YOUR_PROJECT_BRAIN_REPO_LIST>",
        "PROJECT_BRAIN_STATE_DIR": "<YOUR_PROJECT_BRAIN_STATE_DIR>",
        "PB_GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_PB_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "PB_FETCH_TTL": "<YOUR_PB_FETCH_TTL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "project-brain": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/gentleelephant/project-brain:v2.0.3"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROJECT_BRAIN_REPO_LIST": "<YOUR_PROJECT_BRAIN_REPO_LIST>",
        "PROJECT_BRAIN_STATE_DIR": "<YOUR_PROJECT_BRAIN_STATE_DIR>",
        "PB_GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_PB_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "PB_FETCH_TTL": "<YOUR_PB_FETCH_TTL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add project-brain --env PROJECT_BRAIN_REPO_LIST=<YOUR_PROJECT_BRAIN_REPO_LIST> --env PROJECT_BRAIN_STATE_DIR=<YOUR_PROJECT_BRAIN_STATE_DIR> --env PB_GITHUB_TOKEN=<YOUR_PB_GITHUB_TOKEN> --env PB_FETCH_TTL=<YOUR_PB_FETCH_TTL> -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/gentleelephant/project-brain:v2.0.3