mindin runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 2 095 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 7 Nov 2026.
Indexed search, schema-checked writes and session hooks for a markdown notes vault
What the code does
We read the source, 2 h ago · rules 995398eba69f
What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.
subprocess.run(
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This code can reach further than it looks
We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.
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 mcp add mindin -- uvx mindin{
"mcpServers": {
"mindin": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"mindin"
]
}
}
}[mcp_servers.mindin]
command = "uvx"
args = ["mindin"]{
"mcpServers": {
"mindin": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"mindin"
]
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"mindin": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"mindin"
]
}
}
}Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
VAULT_PATH (Directory holding the vault. Set this or the four S3_* variables), S3_ENDPOINT (S3 or MinIO endpoint URL holding the vault), S3_ACCESS_KEY (Access key for the vault bucket), S3_SECRET_KEY (Secret key for the vault bucket), S3_BUCKET (Bucket holding the vault), S3_PREFIX (Key prefix inside the bucket), S3_REGION (Region for the vault bucket), VAULT_CACHE_DIR (Where the SQLite index lives), VAULT_SCHEMA (Local schema file overriding the one in the vault), VAULT_STOP_HOOK (Set to off to disable the stop hook), VAULT_STOP_HOOK_COMMITS (Set to off to turn off the stop hook's unlogged-commit and stale-note checks alone), VAULT_STOP_HOOK_PROMPTS (Messages the user writes after the agent's last vault write before the stop hook asks it to save them (default 3), or off).
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