TriliumNext Notes' MCP Server

⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This is a prototype for https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes/issues/705. Suggested only for developer use. Please backup your Trilium notes before using this tool. ⚠️

A model context protocol server for TriliumNext Notes. This server provides tools to interact with your Trilium Notes instance through MCP.

Update: support latest version of TriliumNext v0.92.6

Note: Suggest to use with Cline extension in VSCode, instead of Claude Desktop

Quick Start

Make sure to set up your environment variables first:

TRILIUM_API_URL (default: http://localhost:8080/etapi)
TRILIUM_API_TOKEN (required, get this from your Trilium Notes settings)

Related MCP server: Notion MCP Server

Installation

1. Using with Claude Desktop

Add the server config to your Claude Desktop configuration file:

Add the following configuration to the mcpServers object in your Claude configuration file:

For Local Installation (on Windows)

"triliumnext-mcp": { "command": "cmd", "args": [ "/k", "npx", "-y", "triliumnext-mcp" ], "env": { "TRILIUM_API_URL": "http://localhost:8080/etapi", "TRILIUM_API_TOKEN": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_API_TOKEN>" } }

For Local installation (on Linux)

"triliumnext-mcp": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "triliumnext-mcp" ], "env": { "TRILIUM_API_URL": "http://localhost:8080/etapi", "TRILIUM_API_TOKEN": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_API_TOKEN>" } }

For Development (on Windows / Linux)

cd /path/to/triliumnext-mcp npm run build

"triliumnext-mcp": { "command": "node", "args": [ "/path/to/triliumnext-mcp/build/index.js" ], "env": { "TRILIUM_API_URL": "http://localhost:8080/etapi", "TRILIUM_API_TOKEN": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_API_TOKEN>" } }

Location of the configuration file:

Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Available Tools

The server provides the following tools for note management:

search_notes - Search through notes
- Requires: search query
- Optional: fastSearch (fulltext search toggle), includeArchivedNotes
get_note - Retrieve a note content by ID
- Requires: note ID
create_note - Create a new note
- Requires: parent note ID, title, type, content
- Optional: MIME type for code/file/image notes
- Supported note types: text, code, file, image, search, book, relationMap, render
update_note - Update an existing note
- Requires: note ID
- Optional: new title, new content
delete_note - Delete a note
- Requires: note ID

Development

If you want to contribute or modify the server:

# Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/tan-yong-sheng/triliumnext-mcp.git # Install dependencies npm install # Build the server npm run build # For development with auto-rebuild npm run watch