MCP Standardnotes runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 126 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).
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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 mcp-standardnotes -e 'SN_EMAIL=<SN_EMAIL>' -- npx -y mcp-standardnotes{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-standardnotes": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-standardnotes"
],
"env": {
"SN_EMAIL": "<SN_EMAIL>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.mcp-standardnotes]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-standardnotes"]
env = { SN_EMAIL = "<SN_EMAIL>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-standardnotes": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-standardnotes"
],
"env": {
"SN_EMAIL": "<SN_EMAIL>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"mcp-standardnotes": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-standardnotes"
],
"env": {
"SN_EMAIL": "<SN_EMAIL>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<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).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
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).
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