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MCP Standardnotes MCP Server

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MCP Standardnotes runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 74 installs a week from npm. Last commit 19 Aug 2026.

End-to-end encrypted access to a Standard Notes vault (protocol 004, local stdio only).

Installs per day peak 42 · avg 13 · -43% w/w
a month agotoday
74
Installs / week
npm · mcp-standardnotes
9
Stars
0 open issues
19 Aug 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

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

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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 mcp-standardnotes -- npx -y mcp-standardnotes
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-standardnotes": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-standardnotes"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp-standardnotes]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-standardnotes"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-standardnotes": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-standardnotes"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-standardnotes": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-standardnotes"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: SN_EMAIL (Standard Notes account email. The password is prompted once via `npx mcp-standardnotes-login` and the session is persisted in the OS keychain.), SN_SERVER_URL (Standard Notes sync server URL. Defaults to the official cloud if unset.), SN_CERT_FINGERPRINT (Optional SHA-256 TLS certificate fingerprint for pinning a self-hosted server.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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MCP Standardnotes — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Standardnotes?
MCP Standardnotes 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 mcp-standardnotes was installed 74 times last week.
How do I connect MCP Standardnotes?
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 mcp-standardnotes straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use MCP Standardnotes?
The npm package mcp-standardnotes was installed 74 times in the last week. Week over week that is -43%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is MCP Standardnotes open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 9 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.