# mcp-standardnotes MCP Server

End-to-end encrypted access to a Standard Notes vault (protocol 004, local stdio only).

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## Status

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## Connect

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](https://github.com/lozit/mcp-standardnotes/issues/6) · 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](https://github.com/lozit/mcp-standardnotes/issues/5) · 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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