Hawl MCP Server

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Hawl runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 992 installs a week from npm.

Mailbox, handoffs and permits between your coding agents. Local mode needs no account.

Installs per day peak 505 · avg 16

a month agotoday

992

Installs / week

npm · hawl.ai

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Stars

on GitHub

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Last commit

22 releases in 90 days

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License

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Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Hawl every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add hawl -- npx -y hawl.ai

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hawl": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "hawl.ai"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.hawl]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "hawl.ai"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hawl": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "hawl.ai"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "hawl": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "hawl.ai"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Hawl — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Hawl?

Hawl runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package hawl.ai was installed 992 times last week.

How do I connect Hawl?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls hawl.ai straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Hawl?

The npm package hawl.ai was installed 992 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.