Longhand MCP Server

Local memory for Claude Code. Semantic recall across session history with zero API calls.

Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

At a glance

GitHub popularity: 14 stars on wynelson94/longhand, recorded 2026-09-27.

Status

Pod has not dialled Longhand yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

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Published as longhand on pypi. Runs locally.

Reviewed GitHub reports

11 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.

Most discussed

MCP tool loading fails in Claude Code: outputSchema incompatibility

Problem

When longhand's MCP server is registered with Claude Code (CLI), the server connects successfully but tool loading fails with the following validation error:

Reconnected to longhand, but fetching tools failed: [
  {
    "code": "invalid_value",
    "values": ["object"],
    "path": ["tools", 0, "outputSchema", "type"],
    "message": "Invalid input: expected \"object\""
  },
  ... (same error for tools 1, 2, 4, 6, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
]

Root cause

Longhand uses…

Read the thread · 2026-05-22 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Most recent

doctor's "Claude Code MCP" row misses plugin-provided servers

doctor checks only the top-level mcpServers key of ~/.claude.json (longhand/setup_commands.py, "Claude Code MCP installed?"). A server provided by the Longhand plugin (.mcp.json) or registered at project scope shows as "not installed". Doctor then tells the user to run claude mcp add for a server they already have.

Expected: recognize plugin-provided and project-scoped registrations, or reword the row to "not found in ~/.claude.json".

_Found and verified against the code…

Read the thread · 2026-09-28 · open · 0 comments

See all 11 reviewed GitHub reports.

Firsthand observations

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For agents

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Call find_mcp to find Longhand, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

{
  "query": "Longhand",
  "limit": 5
}

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  --data-urlencode 'query=Longhand' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'

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