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bear-mcp

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bear-mcp

An MCP server that gives Claude direct access to your Bear notes via better-bear-cli (bcli).

bcli talks to Bear through CloudKit (the same path Bear Web uses), so it's safe to run alongside Bear without touching the local SQLite database.

Prerequisites

  1. better-bear-cli installed and authenticated:

    brew install bcli   # or however you install it
bcli auth           # authenticate with Bear / iCloud

  2. Node.js 18+

Related MCP server: Bear MCP Server

Setup

cd /path/to/bear-mcp
npm install
npm run build

Then register in ~/.claude.json under the project you want bear-mcp available in:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bear-mcp": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/Users/you/Developer/MCP Servers/bear-mcp/dist/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

Available Tools

Tool

Description

bear_list_notes

List notes, optionally filtered by tag or including archived/trashed

bear_get_note

Get the full content of a note by ID

bear_list_tags

List all tags across your notes

bear_search_notes

Full-text search across notes

bear_create_note

Create a new note with title, body, and tags

bear_edit_note

Append text to an existing note

bear_trash_note

Move a note to trash

bear_export_notes

Export notes as Markdown files to a directory

Environment Variables

Variable

Default

Purpose

BEAR_BCLI_PATH

PATH lookup

Override path to the bcli binary

BEAR_MCP_LOG

off

Set to debug to enable stderr logging

Development

npm run dev    # TypeScript watch mode
npm run build  # Compile to dist/
npm start      # Run compiled server

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