{"id":"bejaminjones-bear-notes-mcp","name":"bear-notes-mcp","af_score":63.8,"security_score":29.5,"reliability_score":23.8,"what_it_does":"Provides an MCP server for Claude Desktop to read Bear note data directly from Bear’s SQLite database (read-only) and to write changes via Bear’s x-callback-url API (sync-safe) on macOS.","best_when":"You run Claude Desktop on macOS with Bear installed, and you want an AI assistant to safely manage your own personal note library with fast local reads and sync-safe writes.","avoid_when":"You need a hosted SaaS integration with strong, centralized auth; or you cannot grant the executing process file-system access to the Bear database file.","last_evaluated":"2026-03-30T15:27:42.389875+00:00","has_mcp":true,"has_api":false,"auth_methods":["None documented (local MCP server execution)"],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["Write operations depend on Bear and its x-callback-url functionality; if Bear hasn’t been opened at least once, writes may fail.","Database path assumptions on macOS; users may need BEAR_DB_PATH override.","Large databases may cause slower reads; unconstrained queries can be slow.","Tag sanitization auto-corrects formats and may return warnings; agents should expect canonicalized tags instead of echoing inputs verbatim.","Concurrent writes/updates may be impacted by Bear-side conflict detection; retry behavior is not documented."],"error_quality":null}