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Wisply MCP Connector

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Wisply MCP connector (@wisply/mcp)

Use your Wisply meeting notes, action items and live transcript in any MCP client (Cursor, VS Code, Claude, Codex, Gemini CLI, Zed and others) on the Mac that runs Wisply. The connector is a small stdio MCP server. It talks only to the Wisply app at 127.0.0.1, checks that it is talking to Wisply before it uses your token, and needs no account.

Status: not released yet. Wisply owns the wisply npm organization, but @wisply/mcp@0.1.0 has not been published. Don't run the npx commands below before the first release. The app contract now comes from wisply-ai's main, recorded in contract/SOURCE.json. package.json remains "private" while the Mac, namespace and publishing checks are unfinished; WISPLY_RELEASE=1 npm test lists the remaining requirements. PACKAGE_NAME_FINAL remains false until the npm ownership and security checks are recorded. The connector's messages still point at WISPLY_MCP_TOKEN or the local command, such as node bin/wisply-mcp.mjs setup. print-config <app> and install still print and add nothing (exit 1). The npx commands below are what the first release will print.

What you need

  • Wisply for Mac with Settings > Integrations > MCP Server > Enable MCP server on this Mac turned on.

  • Node.js 20 or later (tested on 22 and 24).

  • A Wisply token. Use the read-only connector token (wspc_...) unless you need recording control.

Related MCP server: openwhispr-mcp

Add it to your AI app

Every client runs the same token-free entry:

{ "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "--prefix", "/", "@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"] }

For example, in ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{ "mcpServers": { "wisply": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "--prefix", "/", "@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"] } } }

or in Claude Code: claude mcp add --scope user wisply -- npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0.

Install Wisply once per app. Two entries named wisply show the tools twice.

Why --prefix /. AI apps start the connector in the project you have open, and npx looks for a package in that folder (its node_modules, and its .npmrc, which can send the @wisply scope to another registry) before it asks npm. Without the flag, a cloned project could bring its own @wisply/mcp and have it run under the wisply entry you already trust, with your token. --prefix / makes npx resolve from /, the read-only system volume on macOS, so only the npm registry (through your own ~/.npmrc) supplies the package. One side effect: npm then reads /etc/npmrc instead of the etc/npmrc of your Node installation; settings in ~/.npmrc still apply. Every command below uses the same flags. One-click links, plugins and the setup for each app are under Install in your AI app, and on wisply.ai/docs/mcp/install.

Every app's setup, from the connector

npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0 print-config <app> prints the setup for one app (on stdout, so | pbcopy copies just the snippet) and says where it goes (on stderr). npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0 print-config lists the apps. Add --port <n> if Wisply uses another port. print-config and install take the port only from --port: a WISPLY_MCP_PORT in your shell (for a test Wisply, say) is ignored, with a note, so it never ends up in an app's settings without you choosing it.

npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0 install <app> adds the same entry for you, for the apps marked "yes" below. Quit the app first: an app that is open can write its settings back over the change. install either runs the app's own command, found by its full path in your PATH (folders given as relative paths, such as ., are skipped), with a fixed argument list and no shell; or, for apps with a plain JSON settings file, it changes the text of the wisply entry and nothing else. Every other byte of the file stays as it was (its layout, number spellings and other servers). A file with comments, a key that appears twice or text that isn't UTF-8 is left alone, and you get the snippet to paste. When it replaces an old wisply entry, it keeps what the app or you set on it (autoApprove, alwaysAllow, disabled, disabledTools, timeout, tools, unless one holds something token-shaped) and names every other old field it didn't carry over, such as env or url. An entry that already matches, in any key order, is left as it is. Before the first change it saves the file as <file>.wisply-backup, readable only by you, with any Wisply token in it masked as wsp.... Other servers' keys and tokens stay in that copy, as they were in the file, so delete it once the app works with Wisply. It writes the new text to a temporary file readable only by you and replaces the file in one step, following a symlink to a dotfiles copy, and only if nothing else wrote the file while it worked. A file with a second hard link is left alone, because replacing it would leave the other copy as it was. It never reads the token or the Keychain item, and never writes a token or passes one on: the app's command starts without WISPLY_MCP_TOKEN in its environment. For the other apps it prints the snippet to paste.

An app's own override variable decides the file, as it does for the app: Cline's CLINE_MCP_SETTINGS_PATH, then CLINE_DATA_DIR, then CLINE_DIR; GitHub Copilot CLI's COPILOT_HOME. install says when one is set, and refuses a value that isn't a full path (the app would resolve it against whatever folder it runs in). claude mcp add refuses a name it already has, so running install claude-code again exits 1 and says how to replace the entry (claude mcp remove wisply); codex and gemini replace it, and a JSON file that already has the entry exits 0.

Once an app has the entry, what it reads from Wisply, transcripts included, goes to the AI service it uses; print-config and install say so too.

App

<app>

Where the setup goes

install

Claude Code

claude-code

claude mcp add --scope user wisply -- npx ...

yes

Claude Desktop

claude-desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

yes

Cursor

cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

yes

VS Code

vscode

user mcp.json, through code --add-mcp; vscode-inputs keeps the token in VS Code's secret storage instead

yes

Windsurf

windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

yes

Zed

zed

Zed settings.json (context_servers; zed: open settings). The file usually has comments, so install doesn't edit it

JetBrains AI Assistant

jetbrains

Settings > Tools > AI Assistant > Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Codex

codex

codex mcp add wisply -- npx ..., or ~/.codex/config.toml

yes

Gemini CLI

gemini-cli

gemini mcp add --scope user wisply npx -- ...

yes

GitHub Copilot CLI

copilot-cli

~/.copilot/mcp-config.json (or $COPILOT_HOME)

yes

Warp

warp

Settings > AI > Manage MCP Servers, or /add-mcp

Cline

cline

~/.cline/data/settings/cline_mcp_settings.json, which Cline 4.0 and later share between the extension, the CLI and the JetBrains plugin (or the file CLINE_MCP_SETTINGS_PATH, CLINE_DATA_DIR or CLINE_DIR points to); in Cline: MCP Servers > Configure > Configure MCP Servers

yes

Roo Code

roo-code

global MCP settings, or .roo/mcp.json

Goose

goose

~/.config/goose/config.yaml

LM Studio

lm-studio

Program > Install > Edit mcp.json

Kiro

kiro

~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json

opencode

opencode

~/.config/opencode/opencode.json

Amp

amp

amp mcp add wisply -- npx ...

Factory

factory

droid mcp add wisply "npx ..."

Grok CLI

grok-cli

grok mcp add wisply -- npx ...

The setups come from clients/mcp-clients.json, checked against each app's documentation on the date in its verified_on field. Wisply's own Settings and the guide on wisply.ai/docs/mcp/install use copies of the same file. None of the setups contains a token.

Don't paste a token into a config file. Config files end up in Settings Sync, dotfile repositories and backups. Run npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0 setup once to keep the token in your login keychain (next section), or let the app's own secret storage set WISPLY_MCP_TOKEN (Wisply's VS Code extension, Claude Desktop bundle and Gemini CLI extension, which come with the first release, work this way).

Three notes:

  • GUI apps and npx. Apps started from the Dock may not see a Node installed through nvm. Install Node from nodejs.org or Homebrew; or run npm i -g @wisply/mcp@0.1.0 and use the full path that which wisply-mcp prints as the "command" (with no "args"), which also never resolves anything from a project folder; or use the Claude Desktop bundle or the VS Code extension, which bring their own Node.

  • Remote windows. In a VS Code Remote-SSH or Dev Container window, add Wisply to your local user configuration. A server started on the remote machine can't reach Wisply on your Mac.

  • Versions. The snippets, and every command in this README, name one exact version (@wisply/mcp@0.1.0). npm never changes a published version, so your app runs the same connector until you change the version in its settings (the guide on wisply.ai and Wisply's own snippets will show the newest one). If you'd rather get every 0.x release on its own, write @wisply/mcp@0: npx then fetches the newest 0.x release each time your app starts the connector, which means a bad release would run the same way.

Keep the token in your login keychain

Run this once in Terminal:

npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0 setup

The setup, status and forget commands run the same exact version, with the same --prefix /, as the snippets, so the command that decides which token your apps get never runs whatever npm has as its newest release, or a copy of the package in the folder Terminal is in.

Setup first removes any "Wisply MCP token" saved before, so the new item starts with a clean access list. Then macOS's own security tool asks for the token twice and stores it in your keychain as "Wisply MCP token" (service ai.wisply.mcp, account token; your default keychain, which is normally the login keychain). The token never passes through the connector's arguments or output. If you cancel at that point, the token saved before is already gone, and setup says so. Setup then reads the item back once:

  • A full-access token (wsp_...) is removed again unless you run npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0 setup --full-access. Use the read-only connector token: a full-access token in the keychain gives full access (recording control and follow-ups) to every AI app on this Mac that starts the connector without its own WISPLY_MCP_TOKEN, and setup and status say so.

  • A recording-control token (wspr_...) is kept, and setup and status say what that means: every AI app on this Mac that starts the connector without its own WISPLY_MCP_TOKEN can then start and stop recordings whenever Wisply's Allow agents to start and stop recordings is on (turning it on for one app, such as Raycast, turns it on for all of them) and propose follow-ups. If only one app should control recordings, give that app the recording token through its own secret storage instead, and keep the read-only connector token in the keychain.

  • Anything that isn't a Wisply token is removed again.

  • A kept token gets the identity check, and setup says what it found: "Stored. Wisply answered on 127.0.0.1:51771 and proved it holds this token (read-only connector: 4 tools)."

Don't pass the token as an argument (setup wspc_..., or in an app's args): arguments end up in shell history, config files and logs. The connector refuses such an argument without echoing any of it, and asks you to regenerate the token.

From then on, every AI app that starts the connector without WISPLY_MCP_TOKEN uses the saved token, so none of their configs holds a secret. Two more commands:

  • npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0 status shows where the token comes from, its scope, the port, whether Wisply answered and proved it holds the token, and the tools your apps get. It never prints the token. It takes the connector's --port, --read-only and --allow-claude-setup options.

  • npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0 forget removes the saved token, every copy of it in your keychains. It ignores WISPLY_MCP_PORT. Connectors that are already running keep the token until their app restarts them; regenerating the token in Wisply cuts every app off at once. On another system there is no saved token (setup only saves one on a Mac), so forget says so and succeeds.

The commands exit 0 when they're done (status: a token was found and Wisply proved it holds it; install: the entry was added, or the JSON file already had it), 1 when something needs your attention (no token, Wisply isn't answering, setup, status or install on a computer that isn't a Mac, an app's own command that refused; the message says which), and 2 for a usage mistake, such as an unknown option or app, or a token passed as an argument.

What the keychain protects: it keeps the token out of config files, Settings Sync, dotfile repositories and backups. It doesn't stop another program running as you on this Mac from reading it, because the item trusts /usr/bin/security. Use the read-only connector token, and regenerate it in Wisply if you suspect malware.

AI apps read the tool list when they start the connector. After the token changes, restart the connector (or the app) in each AI app that was already running.

Install in your AI app

Run npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0 setup once (above), then add Wisply to each app in one of the ways below. None of them holds a token: they all use the token saved by setup, or the one your app keeps in its own secret storage.

One click

These buttons add the standard entry, which runs @wisply/mcp@0.1.0 from npm each time your app starts the connector (see "Versions" above).

Plugins, extensions and the Claude Desktop bundle

These run the copy of the connector that comes with them, never npx. An install from this repository copies it at a git ref. Name the release tag where your app takes one, so a later change reaches you only when you move to a newer release; without a ref, the app copies what is on main at install and again at each update.

  • Agent Plugin (Codex, Cursor, VS Code, GitHub Copilot CLI): this repository is one plugin (plugin.json, mcp.json and the wisply-memos skill). Codex: codex plugin marketplace add fal3/wisply-mcp --ref v0.1.0, then install wisply in /plugins (codex plugin marketplace upgrade fetches the same tag again). VS Code: Chat: Install Plugin From Source with https://github.com/fal3/wisply-mcp, or /plugin install fal3/wisply-mcp in a Copilot chat. GitHub Copilot CLI: copilot plugin install fal3/wisply-mcp. These two take no ref: they copy main at install and again at each update (copilot plugin update). Cursor: from the Cursor Marketplace once it's listed. The plugin starts node, so Node.js 20 or later must be on the app's PATH (see "GUI apps and npx" above).

  • Gemini CLI extension: gemini extensions install https://github.com/fal3/wisply-mcp --ref v0.1.0. Without --ref, Gemini installs the newest GitHub release (main until there is one), and gemini extensions update moves to newer ones. Gemini asks for an optional Wisply token and keeps it in the system keychain; leave it empty to use the token saved by setup (Gemini then says the setting is missing, which is expected). It adds the skill and three commands: /wisply:recap, /wisply:live and /wisply:find <phrase>.

  • Claude Desktop bundle: double-click wisply-mcp-0.1.0.mcpb from this repository's GitHub release. Claude shows an install dialog with an optional, masked "Wisply token" field, which it keeps in your system keychain; leave it empty to use the token saved by setup. The bundle runs on Claude Desktop's own Node.

  • Claude Code plugin: /plugin install wisply-local --marketplace fal3/wisply-claude-plugin adds the read-only tools, a status line and a quote button (wisply-claude-plugin).

Every app

The package is @wisply/mcp@0.1.0; the standard entry is {"command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "--prefix", "/", "@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"]}.

App

One click or one command

Or add it by hand

Claude Code

claude mcp add --scope user wisply -- npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0, or the Claude Code plugin (above)

—

Claude Desktop

The bundle (above)

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json: {"mcpServers":{"wisply":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","--prefix","/","@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"]}}}

Cursor

Add to Cursor (above), or the Agent Plugin

~/.cursor/mcp.json: {"mcpServers":{"wisply":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","--prefix","/","@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"]}}}

VS Code

Install in VS Code (above), the Agent Plugin, or code --add-mcp '{"name":"wisply","type":"stdio","command":"npx","args":["-y","--prefix","/","@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"]}'

MCP: Open User Configuration: {"servers":{"wisply":{"type":"stdio","command":"npx","args":["-y","--prefix","/","@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"]}}}

Windsurf / Devin Desktop

—

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json: {"mcpServers":{"wisply":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","--prefix","/","@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"]}}}, then Refresh in the MCP panel

Zed

—

settings.json: {"context_servers":{"wisply":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","--prefix","/","@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"],"env":{}}}}. In a remote-development window keep the default "remote": false, so the connector runs on your Mac

JetBrains AI Assistant / Junie

—

Settings > Tools > AI Assistant > Model Context Protocol (MCP) > Add > STDIO: {"mcpServers":{"wisply":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","--prefix","/","@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"]}}}. Junie: the same in .junie/mcp/mcp.json

Codex

codex mcp add wisply -- npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0, or the Agent Plugin

~/.codex/config.toml: [mcp_servers.wisply], command = "npx", args = ["-y", "--prefix", "/", "@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"]

Gemini CLI

The extension (above), or gemini mcp add --scope user wisply npx -- -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0 (arguments that start with - go after --)

—

GitHub Copilot CLI

copilot plugin install fal3/wisply-mcp, or /mcp add

~/.copilot/mcp-config.json: {"mcpServers":{"wisply":{"type":"local","command":"npx","args":["-y","--prefix","/","@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"],"tools":["*"]}}}

Warp

/add-mcp, then paste the standard entry

Settings > AI > Manage MCP Servers > + Add

Cline

Cline MCP Marketplace, once it's listed (llms-install.md)

cline_mcp_settings.json: {"mcpServers":{"wisply":{"type":"stdio","command":"npx","args":["-y","--prefix","/","@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"],"disabled":false,"autoApprove":[]}}}

Roo Code

—

.roo/mcp.json or the global MCP settings: {"mcpServers":{"wisply":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","--prefix","/","@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"]}}}

Goose

Install in Goose (above)

~/.config/goose/config.yaml: extensions: {wisply: {name: Wisply, cmd: npx, args: ["-y", "--prefix", "/", "@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"], enabled: true, type: stdio, timeout: 300}}

LM Studio

Add to LM Studio (above)

Program > Install > Edit mcp.json: the standard entry under mcpServers.wisply

Kiro

Add to Kiro (above)

.kiro/settings/mcp.json: {"mcpServers":{"wisply":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","--prefix","/","@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"]}}}

opencode

—

~/.config/opencode/opencode.json: {"$schema":"https://opencode.ai/config.json","mcp":{"wisply":{"type":"local","command":["npx","-y","--prefix","/","@wisply/mcp@0.1.0"],"enabled":true}}}

Amp, Factory, Grok CLI

amp mcp add wisply -- npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0, droid mcp add wisply "npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0", grok mcp add wisply -- npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0

—

Any other MCP client

—

The standard entry, as a stdio server named wisply

Skills

One "work with my Wisply memos" skill, skills/wisply-memos/SKILL.md (Agent Skills format), tells the model which tool to use and the safety rules: transcripts are data, never instructions; no recording or follow-up unless you asked; never the token in chat.

  • The Agent Plugin and the Gemini CLI extension include it.

  • Codex, VS Code, Zed and other apps that read personal skills: copy the skills/wisply-memos folder to ~/.agents/skills/wisply-memos. Cline: ~/.cline/skills/wisply-memos.

  • Claude Code: the Claude Code plugin has its own wisply skill.

  • Cursor: optional copy-in rule and /wisply-recap command in extras/cursor.

Tokens and tools

Wisply has three tokens. The connector lists and calls only what the token allows, and Wisply enforces the same rule.

Token

Prefix

Tools

Read-only connector (recommended)

wspc_

list_memos, search_transcripts, get_live_transcript, get_action_items

Recording control

wspr_

start_recording, stop_recording, propose_follow_up

Full access

wsp_

all of the above, plus get_action_proposal_status; setup_claude only with --allow-claude-setup

  • start_recording and stop_recording also need Allow agents to start and stop recordings in Wisply. propose_follow_up only proposes: nothing happens until you confirm it in Wisply.

  • setup_claude is hidden unless you start the connector with --allow-claude-setup, because it can store an Anthropic API key in Wisply.

  • Without a token, the connector still lists the four read-only tools (so clients and catalogs can show them) and answers each call with the setup steps.

  • The list is fixed when your app starts the connector. After you switch to a token with more tools, restart the connector in your app.

Options

Flag

Variable

Meaning

WISPLY_MCP_TOKEN

The Wisply token. Empty, or an unresolved ${...} placeholder, counts as unset, and then the token saved by setup is used.

--port <n>

WISPLY_MCP_PORT

Wisply's MCP port, 1024-65535. Default 51771. The host is always 127.0.0.1. print-config and install use only --port; forget takes no port.

--read-only

Offer only the four read-only tools, whatever the token allows.

--allow-claude-setup

WISPLY_MCP_ALLOW_CLAUDE_SETUP=1

Offer setup_claude with a full-access token.

WISPLY_MCP_DEBUG=1

One line per request on stderr: method, tool, outcome, HTTP status, bytes, milliseconds. Never arguments, results, transcript text or tokens.

--help, --version

How it protects your token

  • Identity check before every use. Any program can listen on Wisply's port while Wisply is closed. Before each call the connector asks the listener, without the token, to prove it holds the same token: an HMAC-SHA256 over a fresh random nonce, bound to the port. The proof is checked for your token's own scope, in constant time. Only then is the token sent, as a bearer header. The check relies on Wisply holding its port alone while it runs (see SECURITY.md).

  • Local answers. initialize, ping and tools/list are answered by the connector itself, from the tool descriptions in this package, never from whatever answers on the port.

  • Loopback only. The host is fixed at 127.0.0.1. Requests use their own HTTP agent, so HTTP_PROXY and NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY can't route them elsewhere, and redirects are never followed. Answers are capped at 2 MiB (8 KiB for the identity check), with 3 s for the identity check, 5 s for the live transcript and 30 s for everything else.

  • No dependencies, no install scripts, no telemetry. The package has zero runtime dependencies and no lifecycle scripts. It sends nothing anywhere except 127.0.0.1.

  • Pinned versions, from npm only. The npm snippets run one exact, unchangeable npm version, so a new release reaches your app only when you choose it, and --prefix / keeps the open project's node_modules and .npmrc from supplying another copy. Installs from this repository are pinned only when they name a release tag (--ref v0.1.0); the others follow main (see SECURITY.md).

Privacy

The connector talks only to the Wisply app on this Mac, at 127.0.0.1. When your AI app reads a memo, it sends what it read to the AI service it uses, under that service's terms. The connector collects no analytics and keeps no logs of your memos. npx downloads the connector from npm when your app starts it.

Transcripts are recorded speech: the connector tells the model to treat them as data, never as instructions, and the recording and follow-up tools act only with Wisply's own switches and your confirmation in Wisply.

When something goes wrong

The connector answers with a plain message instead of a result:

  • "Wisply MCP token is not set": copy the connector token from Wisply > Settings > Integrations > MCP Server and run npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0 setup, or give it to your app's secret storage (see above).

  • "Wisply isn't answering on 127.0.0.1:51771": open Wisply and turn on the MCP server.

  • "Wisply identity check failed": the program on the port couldn't prove it holds your token, so the token wasn't sent. If you regenerated the token in Wisply, run npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0 setup again (or update it in your app). Otherwise quit whatever uses that port.

  • "Wisply couldn't run ...": Wisply answered the call with an error. The connector passes on Wisply's error code but never Wisply's own error text.

  • "This version of Wisply has no identity check": update Wisply.

  • "... doesn't know recording-control tokens (wspr_), or couldn't read yours from the Keychain": update Wisply, or quit and reopen it and copy the recording token again; or use the connector token.

  • "Wisply on 127.0.0.1:51771 couldn't read its MCP tokens from the Keychain": quit and reopen Wisply, and allow Keychain access if macOS asks.

  • "... isn't available with your ... token": the tool needs another token.

npx -y --prefix / @wisply/mcp@0.1.0 status runs the same checks and says which one failed. On other platforms the connector explains that it needs Wisply for Mac on the same computer.

Development

Zero dependencies: there's nothing to install.

npm test                 # node --test tests/*.test.mjs
npm run check            # the tests, then npm pack --dry-run
# drift checks against local checkouts of the app and the Claude plugin:
WISPLY_AI_DIR=../wisply-ai WISPLY_PLUGIN_DIR=../wisply-claude-plugin npm test

The vendored contract must be wisply-ai's Docs/mcp-contract.json at the commit contract/SOURCE.json records, and the checkout's file must be the same. Pointed at an unmerged wisply-ai branch, the drift checks list what that branch's own commits change and skip (the change reaches this repository through a re-vendor once it is on main); drift that main already has fails on any checkout. The test also checks SOURCE.json's "on_main" against the checkout's origin/main, and reports a TODO while the vendored commit isn't on it yet. With WISPLY_RELEASE=1 (outside GitHub Actions) both variables are required, each checkout's origin must be its GitHub repository, and each recorded commit must be on that origin/main.

  • contract/mcp-contract.json is vendored from wisply-ai Docs/mcp-contract.json, and lib/identity.mjs from wisply-claude-plugin, both by npm run sync-vendor (see scripts/sync-vendor.mjs), which records their sha256 in contract/SOURCE.json, with "on_main": whether the wisply-ai checkout's origin/main has the commit (only for a checkout whose origin is github.com/fal3/wisply-ai; git fetch origin main first). Don't edit them by hand. sync-vendor refuses a contract the connector can't load before it writes anything; the steps are in SECURITY.md, "Re-vendoring the contract".

  • contract/mcp-contract.mjs and clients/mcp-clients.mjs are generated by npm run gen-data.

  • clients/mcp-clients.json is the source of every app setup (print-config, install). wisply-ai keeps a byte-for-byte copy at Docs/mcp-clients.json, pinned to a commit of this file, and wisply-web a hashed one, so change it here first and copy it on. The upstream test requires wisply-ai's copy to be this file as of a commit here, and the current one once it says "published": true; an older copy that still says false (Wisply renders nothing from it) is reported as a TODO. Its templates may use only the {{args_list}} and {{args_cli}} placeholders; tests/clients.test.mjs refuses anything that could carry a token, and any entry without --prefix / in front of the exact version.

  • Its "published": false says the package name isn't on npm yet. The copies in wisply-ai and wisply-web render nothing from the file while it is false (their own tests check that), because anyone could still register the name and be what npx -y runs. It turns true in the release change, together with removing "private" from package.json (tests/clients.test.mjs ties the two, and WISPLY_RELEASE=1 npm test requires true).

  • Every release updates the version in package.json, lib/constants.mjs and every @wisply/mcp@<version> in clients/mcp-clients.json (package_spec and standard_entry); the tests fail while one is behind. No template text names a command (the vscode-inputs prompt says only "the token that the connector's setup saved in your login keychain").

  • print-config <app> and install, and render() and installPlan() in lib/clients.mjs for anything that bundles it, refuse until the release (SETUPS_RELEASED: PACKAGE_NAME_FINAL and "published"). The tests preview them with beforeRelease: true and run the CLI with released: true; the Mac QA of install runs from the release change's checkout, where both flags are already true.

  • docs/release-checks.json records the checks no file here can prove (the Mac port test, the MCP Registry namespace, Wisply's npm name); WISPLY_RELEASE=1 npm test fails until they are recorded, and PACKAGE_NAME_FINAL follows the npm name's record (tests/pack.test.mjs). docs/design-differences.md lists where this repository departs from the distribution design. Neither is in the package.

  • tests/fixtures/fake-wisply.mjs is a synthetic Wisply for local runs: node tests/fixtures/fake-wisply.mjs prints its port and synthetic tokens.

  • install is tested against a temporary HOME and a temporary PATH folder with a stand-in for every app's command; no test runs a real claude, codex, gemini or code, or touches your own app settings.

  • No test touches a real keychain. The Keychain code is tested with spies and plain node children standing in for /usr/bin/security; on a Mac, the few tests that would run the real security are skipped. setup, status and forget against a real login keychain are manual QA on a Mac, from a checkout: node bin/wisply-mcp.mjs setup, node bin/wisply-mcp.mjs status, node bin/wisply-mcp.mjs forget (the checks are listed in SECURITY.md, "Release controls").

Manifests and listings

The repository root is also the Agent Plugin, the Gemini CLI extension, the MCP Registry entry and the source of the Claude Desktop bundle. None of these files is in the npm package.

File

What it is

server.json

MCP Registry entry ai.wisply/local (npm package and MCPB bundle)

registry/cloud.server.json

MCP Registry entry ai.wisply/cloud for Cloud Connect's remote server; published only after Cloud Connect launches

plugin.json, mcp.json

Agent Plugins 1.0.0 manifest and MCP config (Codex, Cursor, VS Code, GitHub Copilot CLI)

.agents/plugins/marketplace.json

Codex marketplace, so codex plugin marketplace add fal3/wisply-mcp finds the plugin at ./

gemini-extension.json, commands/wisply/*.toml

Gemini CLI extension and its /wisply:* commands

skills/wisply-memos/SKILL.md

The portable skill (Agent Skills)

extras/cursor/

Optional Cursor rule and command to copy in

mcpb/manifest.json, mcpb/icon.png

Claude Desktop bundle (MCPB 0.3)

glama.json

Glama ownership (maintainers)

llms-install.md

Install steps for Cline's marketplace

tests/manifests.test.mjs, tests/registry.test.mjs and tests/skills.test.mjs keep their names, versions and tool lists in step with package.json and the contract, and validate them against the upstream schemas in tests/schemas/.

The Claude Desktop bundle

The bundle is packed with @anthropic-ai/mcpb 2.1.2 from tools/mcpb, whose committed lockfile pins every dependency with an integrity hash. Install it once; it runs no install scripts, and nothing here runs npx:

npm ci --ignore-scripts --prefix tools/mcpb
node scripts/build-mcpb.mjs --unreleased    # dist/wisply-mcp-<version>-unreleased.mcpb, from any checkout
node scripts/build-mcpb.mjs --sync          # after the contract or the version changes
tools/mcpb/node_modules/.bin/mcpb validate mcpb/manifest.json

The bundle holds the files git tracks in bin/, lib/, contract/ and clients/, LICENSE, the manifest (its tools written from the contract: every tool but setup_claude, which the bundle never turns on) and the icon. Only regular files: a tracked symlink, or a path under a symlinked folder, stops the build rather than copying what it points to, and the manifest's icon must be icon.png. With the packer installed, npm test also runs tests/mcpb-config.test.mjs against the real library, as the CI job mcpb does.

Releasing the bundle. npm run build:mcpb is the release build. It refuses to run unless the checkout is clean and HEAD is at tag v<version>, and it stages the tag's own files, so run it in a fresh clone of the tag. It writes dist/wisply-mcp-<version>.mcpb and dist/SHA256SUMS. Zip entries carry the build time, so every build has a new sha256: build the release asset once and never rebuild it.

  1. Upload both files to the draft GitHub release, and paste the SHA256SUMS line into the release notes. Never publish the bundle alone: Gemini CLI takes a release's only asset for the extension and can't unpack a .mcpb, while with two assets it installs the tag's source.

  2. Put the sha256 in server.json (fileSha256).

  3. Download the asset back from the draft release and run the gate on that copy, in a checkout that has the tag (git fetch --tags). The gate checks the hash, then unpacks the bundle and compares every file with the tag, byte for byte:

gh release download v0.1.0 --repo fal3/wisply-mcp --pattern '*.mcpb' --dir dist/check
WISPLY_REGISTRY_RELEASE=1 WISPLY_MCPB_FILE=dist/check/wisply-mcp-0.1.0.mcpb npm test

WISPLY_REGISTRY_RELEASE=1 alone always fails: a hash left over from the previous release isn't the placeholder, so only the downloaded asset can show that fileSha256 belongs to this version. When you bump the version, set fileSha256 back to the placeholder (64 zeros) until the new bundle exists.

Releasing

WISPLY_RELEASE=1 npm test is the release check. It passes only on the tree to publish and otherwise lists what is missing, each step once: a contract re-vendored from wisply-ai's main (tests/vendor.test.mjs); on your own machine, checkouts of wisply-ai and wisply-claude-plugin that confirm the vendored commits are on their main (tests/upstream.test.mjs); a checkout with no changes or untracked files that packs exactly the committed files (tests/pack.test.mjs); the checks recorded in docs/release-checks.json, the final package name with no "private", and a destructive setup_claude (tests/release-checks.test.mjs); "published": true in the clients file (tests/clients.test.mjs); and the release change itself: this version everywhere, the CHANGELOG heading with its date and, in the release workflow, the tag v<version> (tests/release.test.mjs). Run it from a fresh clone, with both checkouts fetched:

WISPLY_AI_DIR=<wisply-ai checkout> WISPLY_PLUGIN_DIR=<wisply-claude-plugin checkout> WISPLY_RELEASE=1 npm test

The release workflow can't check out the private wisply-ai, so there the contract's "on_main" is the reviewed tree's claim: run the command above on the commit before you tag it.

0.1.0 is published by hand, from a fresh clone of the tag. Later versions go through .github/workflows/release.yml: a pushed v* tag on a main commit, the checks in a read-only job, then the release environment's approval and npm stage publish --provenance through npm trusted publishing (no npm token) in a job that runs nothing else. The version goes live when a maintainer approves it on npm with two-factor authentication (npm stage approve <id>); only then build the bundle and publish the registry entry. The release environment must exist with its rules before the first tag. The order of every step, and how to set up the environment and the trusted publisher, are in SECURITY.md, "Release controls".

Security reports: see SECURITY.md. License: MIT.

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