Motif MCP Server

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Motif runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 932 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 15 Sep 2026.

Research synthesis with receipts: cited, critic-checked insights from interview transcripts.

932

Installs / week

pypi · etot-motif

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15 Sep 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

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License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Motif 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 Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add motif -- uvx etot-motif

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "motif": {
      "args": [
        "etot-motif"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.motif]
command = "uvx"
args = ["etot-motif"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "motif": {
      "args": [
        "etot-motif"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "motif": {
      "args": [
        "etot-motif"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY (Anthropic API key used to run the engine locally), MOTIF_RUNS_DIR (Directory for run logs (every prompt, response, iteration). Defaults to ~/.motif/runs.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Motif — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Motif?

Motif 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 pypi package etot-motif was installed 932 times last week.

How do I connect Motif?

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 etot-motif straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Motif?

The pypi package etot-motif was installed 932 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 Motif open source?

We cannot say either way: written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.