Bear Notes Claude Extension MCP Server

An unofficial, opinionated MCP server for Bear Notes — built around relevance-ranked search instead of substring matching. Results come ranked across titles, bodies, and hierarchical tags, with snippets and combinable…

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What is the Bear Notes Claude Extension MCP Server?

Bear Notes Claude Extension source profile. From the maintainer documentation: “An unofficial, opinionated MCP server for Bear Notes — built around relevance-ranked search instead of substring matching. Results come ranked across titles, bodies, and hierarchical tags, with snippets and combinable filters (tag, date, pinned). Reads run direct against Bear's SQLite database — no Bear app required for queries.”

Installation

The documented npm package is bear-notes-mcp. The configuration below comes from the maintainer’s example; adapt its paths and account values to your environment.

Source

Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.

How to install the Bear Notes Claude Extension MCP Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bear-notes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "bear-notes-mcp@latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.