Best Productivity Resources MCP server

A small, free Model Context Protocol server that lets Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients search the Best Productivity Resources directory: 1,000+ hand-picked productivity tools, apps, AI tools, courses, books and more.

• No API keys, no account, no analytics. The only network request it makes is a plain GET of the public catalogue at https://bestproductivityresources.com/resources.json, cached in memory for six hours. Your questions stay on your machine.

• No dependencies. One file, runs on Node.js 18 or newer.

• Read-only. It cannot change anything anywhere.

• MIT licensed. See LICENSE.

One-click bundle (MCPB)

Each release has a bpr-mcp-<version>.mcpb bundle (built from manifest.json, bpr-mcp.mjs and LICENSE) for clients that install MCP Bundles, such as Claude Desktop. Its SHA-256 is listed in the release notes.

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Tools

Each result has the resource's name, slug, official url, directory page, category, type, pricing, platforms, a one-line description and the date it was last updated.

Install

1. Download the server (one file):

   curl -o ~/bpr-mcp.mjs https://bestproductivityresources.com/downloads/bpr-mcp.mjs

   or git clone https://github.com/ShushantLakhyani/bpr-mcp and use bpr-mcp.mjs from the clone, or save it from https://bestproductivityresources.com/mcp. Check it runs with node ~/bpr-mcp.mjs (it waits for input; press Ctrl+C to stop).

2. Add it to your client. Use the absolute path to the file (for example /Users/you/bpr-mcp.mjs, or on Windows C:\Users\you\bpr-mcp.mjs, written as C:\\Users\\you\\bpr-mcp.mjs inside JSON).

Claude Desktop

Open Settings → Developer → Edit Config (this opens claude_desktop_config.json), add the server and restart Claude Desktop:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "best-productivity-resources": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/bpr-mcp.mjs"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add best-productivity-resources -- node /absolute/path/to/bpr-mcp.mjs

Add --scope user to make it available in every project.

Cursor

Add the same mcpServers block to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (all projects) or .cursor/mcp.json (one project), then enable it under Settings → MCP.

Other clients

Any MCP client that supports stdio servers works: the command is node and the only argument is the path to bpr-mcp.mjs.

Try it

• "Find free note-taking apps in Best Productivity Resources."

• "What categories does Best Productivity Resources have?"

• "Get the Best Productivity Resources listing for Notion."

Offline use

Set BPR_RESOURCES_FILE to a downloaded copy of resources.json and the server reads that file instead of the network.

Develop

The source is TypeScript in src/ (catalog.ts holds the search logic, server.ts the stdio JSON-RPC loop). bpr-mcp.mjs is the bundled build, kept in the repo so it runs with plain Node and no install step.

bun build.ts                # bundle src/ to bpr-mcp.mjs
npx -p typescript tsc -p . --noEmit   # typecheck (needs @types/node)

Issues and pull requests are welcome. This repository has no CI and no GitHub Actions.