zettelkasten-assistant

zettelkasten-assistant is an MCP server for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode from joshylchen/zettelkasten. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, no licence file.

An MCP server for a Zettelkasten, a note-taking method based on small, linked notes. It runs a Python script and needs four environment variables.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in the joshylchen/zettelkasten setup after providing the four required environment variables.
Why use it?
It connects an agent to the configured Zettelkasten assistant instead of leaving that work outside the agent workflow. The description does not say which note operations it supports.

MCP server for Claude CodeCodexCursorGemini CLIOpenCode

Written for no agent in particular: it speaks MCP, so any client can run it. Also seen: listed in a Claude config.

Good fit Use it in the joshylchen/zettelkasten setup after providing the four required environment variables.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add mcp/joshylchen/zettelkasten/zettelkasten-assistant
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshylchen/zettelkasten

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

zettelkasten-assistant scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

claude_desktop_config.json · 14 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 14 lines scan A 2baa42dff181

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zettelkasten-assistant is an MCP server published in the GitHub repository joshylchen/zettelkasten (39 stars, last pushed 11mo ago), with no licence file. Its token cost is not measured: an MCP server costs its tool schemas, not its config file. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.