remote-capable server

The server can be hosted and run remotely because it primarily relies on remote services or has no dependency on the local environment.

Integrations

Provides tools for interacting with a Trilium Notes instance, enabling note management operations including creating, searching, retrieving, updating, and deleting notes of various types (text, code, file, image, search, book, relationMap, render).

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)

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 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>"
  }
}

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 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>"
  }
}

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

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Tools

A model context protocol server that allows interaction with TriliumNext Notes, providing tools to create, search, retrieve, update, and delete notes through natural language commands.

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