Stickies MCP Server

Persistent, expiring, importance-graded sticky notes for Claude Code.

Local serverstdio

What is the Stickies MCP server?

Persistent, expiring, importance-graded sticky notes for Claude Code. The stickies mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it rather than through you.

What it actually does

You need Node ≥ 22.5 (node -v to check — it's for the built-in SQLite).

Configuration

You will need one environment variable: STICKIES_SYNC_REPO. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.

Adding it to your client

Installation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at stickies-mcp 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.

When to reach for it

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. It is maintained by dumbspacecookie; 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.

Caveats

  • 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.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the stickies mcp server does with a few real requests.

How to install the Stickies MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stickies": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["--disable-warning=ExperimentalWarning", "/abs/path/to/stickies/src/server.js"]
    }
  }
}

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

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
STICKIES_SYNC_REPOConfiguration value read at startup.Optional

Frequently asked questions

It connects Stickies to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Stickies directly.