ExerciseBank MCP Server

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ExerciseBank runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 289 installs a week from npm. Last commit 20 Sep 2026.

Search 1,492 filmed exercises by muscle, equipment, pattern and joints to avoid; get substitutes.

Installs per day peak 289 · avg 9

a month agotoday

289

Installs / week

npm · exercisebank-mcp

Stars

0 open issues

20 Sep 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

MIT

License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check ExerciseBank 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 exercisebank-mcp -- npx -y exercisebank-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "exercisebank-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "exercisebank-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.exercisebank-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "exercisebank-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "exercisebank-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "exercisebank-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "exercisebank-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "exercisebank-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: EB_KEY (Your ExerciseBank API key. Free sandbox key, no card: https://exercisebank.net/signup), EB_END_USER (Optional. An opaque id for the person at this machine; enables get_media_urls (signed video and still URLs). Counts as an end user on the plan.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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ExerciseBank — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for ExerciseBank?

ExerciseBank 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 exercisebank-mcp was installed 289 times last week.

How do I connect ExerciseBank?

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 exercisebank-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use ExerciseBank?

The npm package exercisebank-mcp was installed 289 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.

Is ExerciseBank open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 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.