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Joplin MCP Server by alondmnt MCP Server

FastMCP server exposing Joplin notes, notebooks, tags, and imports.

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Published as joplin-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

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Feature proposal: notebook allowlist for restricting MCP server access

Problem

When an AI agent connects to Joplin via MCP, it currently has access to all notebooks. For users with personal, work, or sensitive notebooks alongside ones they want an agent to operate on, there is no way to limit the scope of access. A misconfigured prompt or unexpected tool call could read or modify notes the user never intended to expose.

Proposed solution

A pattern-based allowlist that controls which notebooks the MCP server can access. The configuration would use gitigno

Read the thread · 2026-03-09 · closed · outside contributor · 10 comments

[codex] Joplin MCP exposes only server_info endpoint; no notes resource available

Steps to reproduce

  1. Call list_mcp_resources against the joplin MCP server.

• Called joplin.list_mcp_resources({"server":"joplin"}) └ {"server": "joplin", "resources": [{"server": "joplin", "uri": "joplin://server_info", "name": "get_server_info", "description": "Get Joplin server
information.", "mimeType": "text/plain", "_meta": {"_fastmcp": {"tags": []}}}]}

  1. Observe the sole resource joplin://server_info.
  2. Call read_mcp_resource on `joplin://note

Read the thread · 2026-02-10 · closed · external user · 6 comments

No valid session ID provided

Hello, I hope you are well.

I really really tried to get your MCP working (I think it has more tools than the other Joplin MCPs out there, and it's written in Python), but I keep getting this error:

Error POSTing to endpoint (HTTP 400): Bad Request: No valid session ID provided

I managed to get

Read the thread · 2025-07-17 · closed · external user · 6 comments

Race condition: update_note API call returns 200 OK but confirmation message is missing or unreliable for immediate followup reads

Bug: update_note API Call Returns HTTP 200 but Response is Missing from Frontend (Race Condition)

Problem Statement

When using update_note (or tool_replace_note_content) through the Joplin MCP server via Open WebUI/MCPO, the tool executes successfully on the backend but the confirmation message is missing from the user-facing output, even though:

  1. HTTP 200 OK is returned by the server
  2. The note IS actually updated in Joplin (verified in subsequent reads)
  3. **

Read the thread · 2026-04-11 · closed · external user · 5 comments

Unable to use with Codex. Seems to force HTTPS when using env-vars

in .codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.joplin]
enabled = false
command = "uvx"
args = ["--from", "joplin-mcp", "joplin-mcp-server"]

[mcp_servers.joplin.env]
JOPLIN_TOKEN = "xyz"
JOPLIN_HOST = "localhost"
JOPLIN_PORT = "41184"

Result

› can you access joplin now?

• Called joplin.ping_joplin({})
  └ OPERATION: PING_JOPLIN
    STATUS: FAILED
    CONNECTION: FAILED
    ERROR: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=41184): Max retries exceeded with url: /ping?
        token=xxx 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/11) · 2026-02-07 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### Most recent

### Reduce agent-directed output verbosity: drop instructional/decorative additions from tool responses

Related: #59 

## Summary

Several tool outputs include content optimised for a human reading a transcript rather than for an agent consuming the result. These additions cost tokens on every call without changing agent behaviour. This issue covers only the wasteful additions — the navigational structure (matching-line previews, TOC mode, `content_size`, `notebook_path`) is genuinely valuable and should stay.

## Problems

### 1. `NEXT_STEPS` blocks with example calls

`get_note` in TOC mode (and

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/66) · 2026-08-19 · closed · 0 comments

### Question: project direction now that Joplin ships native AI features

I use joplin-mcp daily (via Claude Code) to drive my notes and to-dos, and it has become a core part of my workflow — thank you for building it.

When Joplin's native AI features appeared, I compared the two and stayed with joplin-mcp — it is currently the more mature way to work with notes from an assistant. But the direction is clear: Joplin itself is investing in AI. I am curious how you see this playing out for joplin-mcp: do you expect the native features and an external MCP server to serve

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/65) · 2026-08-15 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### fix: environment variables are ignored when a config file exists

the server loads a config file **or** the environment, never both. `_auto_discover_with_logging()` calls `from_file()` as soon as it finds a config file on a discovered path (`JOPLIN_MCP_CONFIG`, `~/.config/joplin-mcp/*`, or `./joplin-mcp.json`), and only falls back to `from_environment()` when no file exists. so every `JOPLIN_*` variable is inert for anyone who has a config file - which is everyone who ran the installer.

that matters because MCP clients configure servers through an `env` block

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/60) · 2026-08-05 · closed · 0 comments

### Heavy Token Use

Thank you for creating the mcp. Is there a way to create queries that limit the token use.  Querying a single notebook page for information can consume of 5K tokens.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/59) · 2026-08-02 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### update_note/update_notebook/update_tag success messages omit item title/name

## Summary

`format_update_success()` in `formatting.py` only includes `ITEM_ID` in its response, never the item's title/name — unlike `format_creation_success()`, which includes both. This makes it hard for an LLM client (and any human reading the tool call log) to tell which note/notebook/tag was just touched, without cross-referencing the ID against an earlier call.

```python
def format_update_success(item_type: ItemType, item_id: str) -> str:
    return f"""OPERATION: UPDATE_{item_type.valu

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/58) · 2026-07-25 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### MCP Joplin 0.9.0 not working with Claude Desktop

I upgraded my 0.7.1 to the latest version (0.9.0) via pip and now the MCP server doesn't work with Claude Desktop. Latest macOS, latest Claude Desktop app, latest Joplin app. Reinstalled via pip and went through the configuration again, but still the same error. When I hit the webclipper page directly in a browser (http://localhost:41184/), I get the following error message:

`{"error":"Not Found: \n\nError: Not Found\n    at Api.route (file:///Applications/Joplin.app/Contents/Resources/lib/serv

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/55) · 2026-06-12 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### import engine bypasses note_view cache invalidation

tool-side mutations now flow through `note_view.modify_note` / `note_view.delete_note`, which wrap the joppy client and clear the single-note cache in one step (commit 5b6bfa4). the import engine still calls `self.client.modify_note(...)` directly at two sites:

- `src/joplin_mcp/imports/engine.py:572` — link rewriting during import
- `src/joplin_mcp/imports/engine.py:801` — fixing `created_time` / `updated_time` on imported notes

neither site invalidates the cache. a user who imports a file an

[Read the thread](https://github.com/alondmnt/joplin-mcp/issues/54) · 2026-05-21 · open · 0 comments

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