DevBrain is a server that enables you to interact with developer-curated content through the following functionalities:
- Search Content: Query for relevant developer articles, blogs, and code snippets based on specific search terms
- Filter Results: Ground searches using optional comma-separated tags or keywords
- Read Articles: Retrieve the full content of an article by providing its URL
- Token Management: Get the current authentication token or set a new one
Allows running the DevBrain MCP server as a Docker container for containerized deployment and integration with Claude
DevBrain MCP Server
Chat with your favorite newsletters (coding, tech, founder).
DevBrain pulls up relevant code snippets, indie developer articles, and blog posts, all based on what you're looking for.
It's kind of like a web search, but specifically tuned for high-quality, developer-curated content. You can easily plug in your favorite newsletters to expand its knowledge base even further.
For example, when you are implementing feature "A", DevBrain can pull related articles that would serve as a solid reference and a foundation for your implementation.
Claude app | Goose app (tap on an image to open utube) |
DevBrain returns articles as short description + URL, you can then:
- instruct LLM agent like
Claude
orGoose
to fetch full contents of the articles using provided URLs - instruct LLM to implement a feature based on all or selected articles
Installation and Usage
Via uv
or uvx
. Install uv
and uvx
(if not installed):
Example command to run MCP server in stdio
mode:
Use in Claude
To add devbrain
to Claude's config, edit the file:
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
and insert devbrain
to existing mcpServers
block like so:
Claude is known to fail when working with uv
and uvx
binaries. See related: https://gist.github.com/gregelin/b90edaef851f86252c88ecc066c93719. If you encounter this error then run these commands in a Terminal:
and restart Claude.
Integration for Cline and other AI agents
Command to start DevBrain MCP in stdio
mode:
and add this command to a config file of the AI agent (Cline or other).
Note that DevBrain requires Python 3.10+ support. Most systems have it installed. However VS Code (that Cline depends on) is shipped with Python 3.9. Use correct version of Python when running DevBrain MCP. A corrected version to launch DevBrain MCP looks like this:
where Python version may be 3.10, 3.12, 3.13 (or other that is installed and available on the system).
Docker integration
You can run this MCP as a Docker container in STDIO mode. First build an image with build.sh
. Then add a config to Claude like so:
Test command to verify that docker container works correctly:
License
This project is released under the MIT License and is developed by mimeCam as an open-source initiative.
hybrid server
The server is able to function both locally and remotely, depending on the configuration or use case.
Quickly search indexed indie devs blog posts and articles.
It is like chatting with your favourite newsletters (coding, tech, founder).
It's kind of like a web search, but specifically tuned for high-quality, developer-curated content.
Use case: help implement features faster.
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