Desktop Notify MCP Server

Connect Desktop Notify to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides cross-platform desktop notification capabilities. Built on top of the excellent notify-rust crate, this server allows AI assistants like Claude to. The desktop notify mcp server is what makes that connection.

What the server does

• Cross-platform support — Works on Linux (XDG), macOS, and Windows
• Multiple notification types — Basic, urgent, with icons, custom timeouts, and fully customizable
• MCP compliance — Implements the Model Context Protocol for seamless integration
• Flexible configuration — Supports various notification parameters and platform-specific features

Installation

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.

Worth knowing first

• It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
• Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

Where it fits

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. It is maintained by gbrigandi; 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.