log-reflect-mcp

log-reflect-mcp is a local-first MCP server for a personal recording system. It gives an AI client a small, explicit interface for capturing and retrieving Markdown records while keeping the records in a separate repository.

It is designed to work with the directory conventions used by log-reflect-practice:

daily/
├── journal/{YYYY}/{YYYYMM}/
└── inputs/{YYYY}/{YYYYMM}/
practices/

Current scope

The first version intentionally exposes only four tools:

• capture_journal: create or append a personal journal fragment.

• capture_input: save an external input as a Markdown note.

• get_records_by_date_range: retrieve journal and input records for review.

• search_records: search record contents.

The MCP server handles access and storage. Agent Skills remain responsible for judgment: how lightly to edit a journal, what belongs in an input note, how to review seven days, and when a recurring theme is ready to become a Practice.

Related MCP server: ai-journal

Safety boundaries

• The source repository contains no personal records or credentials.

• The server can only read daily/journal/ and daily/inputs/.

• New records are written only inside those two directories.

• Existing input files are never silently overwritten.

• If more than one journal file exists for a date, the write stops instead of guessing.

Setup

Requirements: Node.js 22 or later.

npm install
cp .env.example .env

Set the absolute path to your records repository:

RECORDS_REPO_PATH=/absolute/path/to/log-reflect-practice

Build and start the stdio server:

npm run build
RECORDS_REPO_PATH=/absolute/path/to/log-reflect-practice npm start

Example client configuration

After building, point an MCP client at the compiled server:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "log-reflect": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/log-reflect-mcp/dist/src/server.js"],
      "env": {
        "RECORDS_REPO_PATH": "/absolute/path/to/log-reflect-practice",
        "RECORDS_TIME_ZONE": "America/Los_Angeles"
      }
    }
  }
}

Development

npm run check
npm test

To inspect the tools interactively:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector node dist/src/server.js

Roadmap

• Add MCP resources for reading individual records.

• Add review and develop-practice prompts without moving judgment into storage code.

• Add an opt-in Git commit workflow.

• Add a GitHub-backed storage adapter.

• Add Streamable HTTP and OAuth only after the local workflow is stable.