Atlas MCP Server

If you already use Atlas, the atlas mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. Self-hosted git-native knowledge base with an MCP endpoint your AI reads, writes and rewinds.

What the server does

Notion, and every hosted notes app, ask you to pour your thinking into their structure, on their servers, in their format. You rent the space; they hold the keys. Atlas Mind inverts that: your knowledge is plain files in your own git repository, served by an engine you can read line by line and throw away without losing a single note. Your AI comes to your library through an open protocol; it never pulls your brain into its own.

• Reading — GitHub-flavoured Markdown (TOC, syntax highlighting, reading time, tag bar), inline preview of standalone HTML decks/dashboards, PDF, and .docx (converted in-browser, read-only). Download any file as its original
• Navigation — collapsible tree, full-text search (server-side online, fuzzy MiniSearch offline), [[wikilinks]] + backlinks + "same subject", folder/frontmatter tags, mind-wide task rollup, command palette (Ctrl-K), pinned and recent docs
• The Mind — a force-directed mind palace where every document and tag is a navigable node, colour-grouped by folder, recent nodes glowing, orphans dimmed
• Editing — create / edit / rename / move / delete from the viewer (moving rewrites the wikilinks pointing at a doc), document templates, interactive task checkboxes, a categorised todos widget
• History — every document git-versioned, with a revision list, clean diffs, view/restore of past versions (restore is a new commit), renames and moves followed
• Inbox — a per-person triage lane on the home for the items your agents staged via MCP. One focused card at a time; keep (filed to a suggested folder and tags), trash or snooze, by click or keyboard (K / X / S / J)

Installation

Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.

Available tools

The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:

• Multi — format, not just Markdown.** Markdown is first-class (rendered, linked, searched). Standalone HTML decks and dashboards, PDFs, and **Word
• read — search_docs, read_doc, list_tree, recent_docs
• write — create_doc, edit_doc, move_doc (fixes incoming [[backlinks]]), delete_doc (soft-delete to .trash/)
• graph — get_links, get_backlinks, list_by_tag, get_mind_topology
• time — travel** (your mind is a git repo): doc_history, doc_at, doc_diff, search_history, changelog, doc_blame, doc_revert
• inbox — create_inbox_item (an agent stages a ready-to-file item in your inbox for triage)
• Reading — GitHub-flavoured Markdown (TOC, syntax highlighting, reading time, tag bar), inline preview of standalone HTML decks/dashboards, PDF, and .docx
• Navigation — collapsible tree, full-text search (server-side online, fuzzy MiniSearch offline), [[wikilinks]] + backlinks + "same subject", folder/frontmatter
• Editing — create / edit / rename / move / delete from the viewer (moving rewrites the wikilinks pointing at a doc), document templates, interactive task
• History — every document git-versioned, with a revision list, clean diffs, view/restore of past versions (restore is a new commit), renames and moves followed
• Activity — a home card over the attributed git history — a journal of who-changed-what (with AI-author detection and a per-doc history peek), a constellation of
• Inbox — a per-person triage lane on the home for the items your agents staged via MCP. One focused card at a time; keep (filed to a suggested folder and

Worth knowing first

• Your data travels to the provider's service, so the usual questions apply about what you send and what they retain.
• With 14 tools registered it takes up a noticeable share of the context window; turn it off in projects that never touch Atlas.
• Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

Where it fits

Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Atlas's toolset — Multi, read, write and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by app.anakior; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

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