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Release Notes MCP Server

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Release Notes MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 62 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 1 Jul 2026.

A small, generic MCP server for combining GitHub/GitLab/Gitea releases into product release notes

Installs per day peak 18 · avg 8 · -11% w/w
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1 Jul 2026
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Today is the operative word: we check Release Notes MCP every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add release-notes-mcp -- uvx release-notes-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "release-notes-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "release-notes-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.release-notes-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["release-notes-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "release-notes-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "release-notes-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "release-notes-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "release-notes-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: RELEASE_MCP_CONFIG_JSON (Config (repos + contextSources) as inline JSON, e.g. {"repos":["myorg/web"],"contextSources":[]}. Use this for uvx/hub launches with no file to mount. Either this or RELEASE_MCP_CONFIG is required.), RELEASE_MCP_CONFIG (Absolute path to a config.json file (alternative to RELEASE_MCP_CONFIG_JSON). Used when mounting a real file, e.g. in Docker.), TOKEN (Auth token for the provider (GitHub PAT / GitLab / Gitea token). Optional for public repos.), PROVIDER (Forge to read releases from: github | gitlab | gitea. Defaults to github.), BASE_URL (API base URL — only for self-hosted GitLab or Gitea/Forgejo.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Release Notes MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Release Notes MCP?
Release Notes MCP 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 release-notes-mcp was installed 62 times last week.
How do I connect Release Notes MCP?
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 release-notes-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Release Notes MCP?
The pypi package release-notes-mcp was installed 62 times in the last week. Week over week that is -11%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Release Notes MCP 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.