Is Better Bear safe to use?

Better Bear has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install Better Bear?

Better Bear supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What can Better Bear do?

Better Bear provides 3 tools: Install, CLI, Contributors. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with Better Bear?

Better Bear is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.

Is Better Bear actively maintained?

Better Bear is recently maintained — last commit was 70 days ago. It has 61 GitHub stars.

Better Bear

Name: Better Bear
Author: mreider

better-bear · by mreider

61 233/wk 3 tools GitHub npm

No known CVEs

MIT license

Maintained

Last commit 70d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio

3 tools · ~124 tok

Grade A · 0.1% of 200K ctx

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "better-bear": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "better-bear"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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What Better Bear does

MCP server and CLI for Bear notes via CloudKit. Includes a context library — a curated, synced folder of notes optimized for LLM consumption, inspired by Karpathy's LLM Knowledge Base pattern.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Better Bear safe to use?: Better Bear has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Better Bear?: Better Bear supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Better Bear do?: Better Bear provides 3 tools: Install, CLI, Contributors. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Better Bear?: Better Bear is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.
Is Better Bear actively maintained?: Better Bear is recently maintained — last commit was 70 days ago. It has 61 GitHub stars.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "better-bear": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "better-bear"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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What Better Bear does

MCP server and CLI for Bear notes via CloudKit. Includes a context library — a curated, synced folder of notes optimized for LLM consumption, inspired by Karpathy's LLM Knowledge Base pattern.

Test This Server

Run this in your terminal to verify the server starts. Then let us know if it worked — your result helps other developers.

npx -y 'better-bear' 2>&1 | head -1 && echo "✓ Server started successfully"

After testing, let us know if it worked:

README

better bear

MCP server and CLI for Bear notes via CloudKit. Includes a context library — a curated, synced folder of notes optimized for LLM consumption, inspired by Karpathy's LLM Knowledge Base pattern.

Full docs: better-bear.com

Install

Install the CLI, then connect to Claude:

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KuvopLLC/better-bear/main/install.sh | bash
bcli auth
bcli mcp install

This installs the bcli binary, authenticates with iCloud, and sets up the MCP server for both Claude Desktop (via .mcpb bundle) and Claude Code.

Other install methods

Method	Command
Claude Desktop only	`bcli mcp install --desktop-only`
Claude Code only	`bcli mcp install --code-only`
Claude Code (direct)	`claude mcp add better-bear -- npx -y better-bear`
Config file	`bcli mcp install --json`
.mcpb bundle	Download from latest release and double-click

Manage

bcli mcp status      # check what's configured
bcli mcp uninstall   # remove from Claude Desktop and Claude Code
bcli mcp reinstall   # clean uninstall + install
bcli upgrade         # upgrade bcli binary

CLI

All commands also work standalone from the terminal:

bcli ls                          # list notes
bcli search "query"              # full-text search
bcli create "Title" -b "Body"    # create a note
bcli edit <id> --append "text"   # append to a note
bcli tags                        # list all tags
bcli attach <id> photo.jpg       # attach a file
bcli stats                       # library statistics
bcli health                      # health check

See better-bear.com for the full command reference.

Context Library

Turn a subset of your Bear notes into a synced, curated context folder that Claude can navigate using index-first retrieval. Tag notes with #context in Bear, sync, and Claude reads a compact index to find relevant files — loading only what it needs, not everything.

bcli context init                          # one-time setup
bcli context sync                          # pull qualifying notes
bcli context add <id> --subtag research    # tag a note for inclusion
bcli context status                        # health check

Or tell Claude: "Set up a context library" — and it handles everything via MCP tools.

The architecture follows Karpathy's three-folder pattern: bear/ (synced from CloudKit), external/ (PDFs, exports, shared docs), and inbox/ (drop zone for triage). An index.md manifest maps everything. See better-bear.com for full documentation.

MCP Tools

34 tools covering notes, tags, TODOs, attachments, search, front matter, stats, health checks, and the context library. See the [MCP server README](mcp-server/README.

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Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

85/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−15

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Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

Checked better-bear against OSV.dev.

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Tools (3)

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~124 tokens total

Community

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Better Bear safe to use?: Better Bear has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Better Bear?: Better Bear supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Better Bear do?: Better Bear provides 3 tools: Install, CLI, Contributors. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Better Bear?: Better Bear is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.
Is Better Bear actively maintained?: Better Bear is recently maintained — last commit was 70 days ago. It has 61 GitHub stars.