BrainTube MCP Server

Personal AI knowledge base: ingest YouTube, articles, Notion, and Readwise into a searchable graph.

Remote serverstreamable-http

What is the BrainTube MCP server?

Personal AI knowledge base: ingest YouTube, articles, Notion, and Readwise into a searchable graph. That is what the braintube mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.

The short version

Your AI can search and cite your own corpus instead of starting every conversation cold:

  • Semantic + keyword search — over everything you've saved, with citations back to the source (down to video timestamps)
  • Ingest — notes, articles and web content directly from any MCP client
  • Knowledge graph & related-item traversal — across your corpus
  • Session context — — expertise profile, recent activity, and resurfacing tools
  • Per-user isolation — — JWT-scoped access; you only ever see your own corpus

The tools it exposes

The server publishes 7 tools. What each one is for:

Getting it running

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.

How it compares

This sits in the search and retrieval group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. BrainTube's toolset — Endpoint, Version, Auth and 4 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by lildaddyo; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Things to watch

  • Your data travels to the provider's service, so the usual questions apply about what you send and what they retain.
  • Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
Endpoint** https://mcp.brain-tube.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP)
Version** 3.12.3
Auth** OAuth 2.0 (authorization code + PKCE) or a BrainTube API key via X-BrainTube-Token header
Discovery** [/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource](https://mcp.brain-tube.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource) · [/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server](https://mcp.brain-tube.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server)
Peruser isolation** — JWT-scoped access; you only ever see your own corpus
Website[brain-tube.com](https://brain-tube.com)
Support[brain-tube.com/contact](https://brain-tube.com/contact)

How to install the BrainTube MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "braintube": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.brain-tube.com/mcp",
      "headers": { "X-BrainTube-Token": "bt_..." }
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Example prompts to try

  • Use BrainTube to Endpoint.
  • Use BrainTube to Version.
  • Use BrainTube to Auth.

Frequently asked questions

It connects BrainTube to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 7 tools (Endpoint, Version, Auth, and more) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with BrainTube directly.