mcp-standardnotes MCP Server
End-to-end encrypted access to a Standard Notes vault (protocol 004, local stdio only).
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Published as mcp-standardnotes 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
Login fails: Cloudflare 403 "Just a moment" — browser UA spoofing now triggers CF impersonation detection
Summary
The login flow fails on api.standardnotes.com with a Cloudflare 403 challenge (cf-mitigated: challenge). The root cause: http.js sends a Chrome User-Agent + Origin: https://app.standardnotes.com + Referer to avoid CF bot challenges, but Cloudflare's bot scoring has changed — it now treats "claims to be Chrome but has a non-browser TLS fingerprint" as impersonation and challenges those requests harder, while honest non-browser clients pass straight through.
Reproductio
Read the thread · 2026-08-03 · closed · external user · 2 comments
Be able to set tag hierarchy (nested subtags / folders)
Hi and thanks for your great work!
It would be super helpful if the MCP also enables to write into nested subtags aka folders. Since I don't have any JS experience, I put an LLM generated problem report which might help you to get an overview of the situation, hope that's okay...
Abstract
The mcp-standardnotes server treats tags as a flat list. A tag's parent, meaning its position in the Standard Notes folder hierarchy, is never returned, and no operation can create a nested tag or move
Read the thread · 2026-07-16 · closed · external user · 5 comments
Install from clone sets wrong location for index.js in config args
Following the README instructions for installing from a clone, the following entry ends up in claude_desktop_config.json:
"mcp-standardnotes": {
"command": "[redacted]/.nvm/versions/node/v22.17.1/bin/node",
"args": [
"[redacted]/Applications/mcp-standardnotes/src/index.js"
],
"env": {
"SN_EMAIL": "[redacted]"
}
}
As a result, Claude closes the connection to the server and surfaces an error:
Error: Cannot find module '[redacted]/A
[Read the thread](https://github.com/lozit/mcp-standardnotes/issues/4) · 2026-07-14 · closed · external user · 2 comments
### 2FA login fails without prompting for authentication code
Hi,
I’m trying to use mcp-standardnotes-login with a Standard Notes account that has 2FA enabled.
The CLI asks for email and password, but then fails immediately instead of prompting for the 2FA code.
Command:
mcp-standardnotes-login
Output:
Email: <my email>
Password: ********
[error] Login failed {"message":"Please enter your two-factor authentication code.","causes"
Thanks.
[Read the thread](https://github.com/lozit/mcp-standardnotes/issues/3) · 2026-06-02 · closed · external user · 5 comments
### MCP server initialization errors out with Claude Desktop on Mac OS
- on Mac Sequoia 15.7.1
- mcp-standardnotes-login worked.
- paths are all correct and node is finding index.js
- I seem to be on the latest protocol (004)
Here is the pertinent log entries:
2026-05-03T04:19:23.872Z [mcp-standardnotes] [info] Initializing server... { metadata: undefined }
2026-05-03T04:19:23.881Z [mcp-standardnotes] [info] Using MCP server command: /opt/homebrew/bin/node with args and path: {
metadata: {
args: [
'/opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/mcp-standardnotes/dis
[Read the thread](https://github.com/lozit/mcp-standardnotes/issues/2) · 2026-05-03 · closed · external user · 3 comments
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