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Cowork History MCP Server

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Cowork History runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 58 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 30 Jan 2026.

Hybrid search for Cowork history: FTS, Spotlight, and semantic vectors

Installs per day peak 23 · avg 9 · -22% w/w
a month agotoday
58
Installs / week
pypi · cowork-history
1
Stars
0 open issues
30 Jan 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 18 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

A tool parameter reaches a dangerous call

A value the model can set ends up inside a file or shell call. That is not a flaw by itself — for a terminal server it is the job — but it is where things go wrong when it is not.

A tool parameter reaches a dangerous call history_setup_ollama.install → src/cowork_history_server.py:383, history_setup_ollama_direct.model → src/cowork_history_server.py:592, history_setup_ollama.model → src/cowork_history_server.py:439
                install_proc = subprocess.run(

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A tool parameter here reaches a dangerous call

That is not a flaw by itself — but it is where things go wrong when it is not the job. We re-read this code on every release. Watch it and you hear from us the day another one appears.

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add cowork-history -- uvx cowork-history
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cowork-history": {
      "args": [
        "cowork-history"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.cowork-history]
command = "uvx"
args = ["cowork-history"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cowork-history": {
      "args": [
        "cowork-history"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cowork-history": {
      "args": [
        "cowork-history"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: OLLAMA_URL (URL for Ollama server (default: http://localhost:11434)), EMBEDDING_MODEL (Ollama embedding model (default: nomic-embed-text)). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Cowork History — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Cowork History?
Cowork History 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 pypi package cowork-history was installed 58 times last week.
How do I connect Cowork History?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls cowork-history straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Cowork History?
The pypi package cowork-history was installed 58 times in the last week. Week over week that is -22%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Cowork History open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 1 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.