LINZA runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 152 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 13 Aug 2026.
Local-first MCP sidecar for Markdown artifacts, review intents, and supervised knowledge growth.
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check LINZA every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
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 LINZA-MCP -- uvx linza-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"LINZA-MCP": {
"args": [
"linza-mcp"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}[mcp_servers.LINZA-MCP]
command = "uvx"
args = ["linza-mcp"]{
"mcpServers": {
"LINZA-MCP": {
"args": [
"linza-mcp"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"LINZA-MCP": {
"args": [
"linza-mcp"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}This one needs environment variables set before it will start:
LINZA_VAULT (Absolute path to the Markdown workspace or vault LINZA may index. Defaults to ./vault.), LINZA_EMBED_PROVIDER (Embedding provider. Allowed values: lmstudio, openai, ollama. Default: lmstudio.), LINZA_EMBED_URL (Embedding API base URL when LINZA_EMBED_PROVIDER is lmstudio, openai, or ollama.), LINZA_EMBED_MODEL (Embedding model name.), LINZA_EMBED_KEY (Optional embedding API key.), LINZA_BRIDGE_THRESHOLD (Semantic bridge threshold as a floating-point string. Default: 0.55.), LINZA_MAX_BRIDGE_PAIRS (Maximum note pairs for semantic bridge rebuilds. Default: 1000000. Use 0 to disable the guard.), LINZA_DEFAULT_PROFILE (Default search profile name. Defaults to general.), LINZA_LANGUAGE (User-facing guide language. Allowed values: auto, en, ru. Default: auto.).
The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.
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