{"id":"obra-private-journal-mcp","name":"private-journal-mcp","af_score":60.2,"security_score":26.0,"reliability_score":22.5,"what_it_does":"Provides an MCP server (stdio via npx) that lets an agent write private, timestamped journal entries to local files (with YAML frontmatter) and perform local semantic search over those entries using embeddings generated with @xenova/transformers.","best_when":"Used by a single user locally (e.g., Claude Desktop) where privacy is achieved by keeping data on the host machine and where lightweight semantic search is sufficient.","avoid_when":"When you need strong authentication/authorization controls, centralized governance, or when the host environment cannot be trusted with sensitive personal data written to disk.","last_evaluated":"2026-03-30T13:33:28.393343+00:00","has_mcp":true,"has_api":false,"auth_methods":["No authentication described for MCP/stdio mode (tool runs locally via npx)."],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["Running via `npx` means the agent environment must allow executing GitHub packages; network access may be needed for initial retrieval.","Local embeddings/index generation on startup can be slow; first-run latency may affect agent workflows.","Search results reference file paths; agents should treat returned paths carefully to avoid unintended file reads.","No documented rate limiting/auth—misconfiguration or misuse could lead to excessive disk writes or local resource exhaustion."],"error_quality":0.0}