mcpbeat Sign in

Plonk MCP Server

by ostapondo Your server? Claim it
local only

Plonk runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 110 installs a week from npm. Last commit 17 Sep 2026.

MCP server for Plonk: macOS window zones, workspaces, keep-awake, screenshots and on-device OCR.

Installs per day peak 760 · avg 51
a month agotoday
110
Installs / week
npm · plonk-mcp
14
Stars
14 open issues
17 Sep 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
Swift

What the code does

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

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

Deletes files or strips permissions App/Sources/plonk/Release.swift:141
    rm -rf "$aside"
Capabilities

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.

Runs an external command mcp/src/cli.ts:104
  const child = spawn(argv[0], argv.slice(1), { stdio: "inherit" });

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch Plonk and you get told the day something new turns up.

Three servers free · no card

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

Alternatives to Plonk

same job, measured the same way
Universal Screenshot MCP
by sethbang

MCP server for web page and cross-platform system screenshots (macOS, Linux, Windows)

114 installs/wk local only
Ocular Audio MCP
by rayakaan

MCP server for video transcripts, screenshots, and OCR on YouTube and web videos.

44 installs/wk local only
Android Puppeteer MCP
by pedro-rivas

MCP server for Android automation with UI interaction, screenshots, and device control

78 installs/wk local only
RokuMCP
by jack1590

MCP server for Roku device automation — deploy, ECP control, screenshots, and debug console

103 installs/wk local only
MochiPDF
by cbolgiano

Remote MCP server for HTML-to-PDF and screenshots with OAuth and API-key auth.

answering
GrabzIt
by grabzit

Official GrabzIt MCP server for AI web scraping, screenshots, and PDF/DOCX generation.

40 installs/wk local only
MCP Test Utils
by jeenyjai

Desktop UI automation for AI agents: screenshots, windows, mouse, keyboard, UI Automation, OCR

local only
I
RaroCUA
by mectrojohnny

Local macOS Computer Use MCP server with screenshots, AX trees, and app actions.

17 installs/wk local only

Plonk — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Plonk?
Plonk 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 plonk-mcp was installed 110 times last week.
How do I connect Plonk?
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 plonk-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Plonk?
The npm package plonk-mcp was installed 110 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 Plonk open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Swift, 14 stars on GitHub and 14 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.