MCP server for Bear notes — read, search, create, edit, tag, and manage notes via CloudKit
Better MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Better directly instead of describing what you should do. MCP server for Bear notes — read, search, create, edit, tag, and manage notes via CloudKit.
This installs the bcli binary, authenticates with iCloud, and sets up the MCP server for both Claude Desktop (via .mcpb bundle) and Claude Code.
Once Better is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
Manage — The Manage tool exposed by this serverInstallation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at better-bear on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Better's toolset — Manage — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by KuvopLLC; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Manage | The Manage tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"better-bear": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "better-bear"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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