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Plonk MCP Server

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Plonk runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 127 installs a week from npm. Last commit 22 Sep 2026.

Plonk gives agents local macOS tools for windows, workspaces, screenshots, OCR, and more.

Installs per day peak 279 · avg 26 · -79% w/w
a month agotoday
127
Installs / week
npm · plonk-mcp
17
Stars
14 open issues
22 Sep 2026
Last commit
22 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
Swift

What the code does

We read the source, 3 d ago · rules 995398eba69f

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.

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

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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 127 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 in the form 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 127 times in the last week. Week over week that is -79%. 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, 17 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.