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io.github.KuvopLLC/better-bear MCP Server

MCP server for Bear notes — read, search, create, edit, tag, and manage notes via CloudKit

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Published as better-bear on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

Most discussed

Server exits on a malformed JSON-RPC frame (denial-of-service)

Hello, and apologies for the unsolicited report.

Your MCP server io.github.mreider/better-bear (better-bear) was included in an automated conformance study of publicly registered Model Context Protocol servers. The study installed and executed every eligible server in the official registry and drove it through a set of protocol checks. One result looked worth reporting to you directly.

What we observed

Server crashes or stops responding after a malformed JSON-RPC frame

Read the thread · 2026-07-31 · open · external user · 0 comments

Server exits on a malformed JSON-RPC frame (denial-of-service)

Hello, and apologies for the unsolicited report.

Your MCP server io.github.mreider/better-bear (better-bear) was included in an automated conformance study of publicly registered Model Context Protocol servers. The study installed and executed every eligible server in the official registry and drove it through a set of protocol checks. One result looked worth reporting to you directly.

What we observed

Server crashes or stops responding after a malformed JSON-RPC frame

Read the thread · 2026-07-31 · open · external user · 0 comments

Tag indexing bugs: bear_create_note body-embedded hashtags are not indexed; read/write APIs disagree about ancestor tags

Hello,

Thanks for the recent updates that have made better-bear such a useful tool. I noticed some inconsistencies regarding tags while working with Claude on some of my notes. I asked Claude to do some tests. It turned out that there may be more than one issue with the tagging mechanism via better-bear. I'm pasting the report from Claude below.

Summary

Three related issues in the tag-handling path of the better-bear MCP:

  1. Hashtags placed inside the body argument of `bear_creat

Read the thread · 2026-04-21 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

Tag indexing bugs: bear_create_note body-embedded hashtags are not indexed; read/write APIs disagree about ancestor tags

Hello,

Thanks for the recent updates that have made better-bear such a useful tool. I noticed some inconsistencies regarding tags while working with Claude on some of my notes. I asked Claude to do some tests. It turned out that there may be more than one issue with the tagging mechanism via better-bear. I'm pasting the report from Claude below.

Summary

Three related issues in the tag-handling path of the better-bear MCP:

  1. Hashtags placed inside the body argument of `bear_creat

Read the thread · 2026-04-21 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

Write operations cause persistent iCloud sync conflicts and bear_add_tag doesn't update Bear's tag index

Thanks a lot for making this repo. It has been very fun playing with it in Claude, even though I know very little about MCP. In the process, I ran into a sync issue which looks similar to a typical Bear cross-device conflict, but not quite the same. Normally when I see the diverging arrow, it means there are two copies of the same note, and deleting one fixes the problem. But while batch-tagging some notes with Claude, the diverging arrow appeared on notes that only have one copy, and I haven't

Read the thread · 2026-04-12 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

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