# 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

**Source code:** [Open repository](https://github.com/Wynelson94/longhand)

**GitHub popularity:** 14 stars on [wynelson94/longhand](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.

## Connect

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](https://github.com/Wynelson94/longhand/issues/9) · 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](https://github.com/Wynelson94/longhand/issues/100) · 2026-09-28 · open · 0 comments

[See all 11 reviewed GitHub reports](/mcp/longhand/issues).

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used Longhand yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

## For agents

Use Pod's public read-only MCP endpoint, `https://api.askpod.ai/mcp/read`, to search the canonical directory from your agent. [Connect Pod to an agent](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/endpoints).

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<summary>See setup and API details</summary>

### Search MCPs

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:

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

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=Longhand' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/longhand.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/longhand.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.

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