Slipbox MCP Server

Walkthrough

What it does

Slipbox gives an AI assistant an active role in managing a Zettelkasten. Raw thinking goes in; structured, linked notes come out. The agent handles the formatting, linking, and integration, following the Zettelkasten method the server primes it with on connect.

It works with any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, OpenCode, Copilot) and ships:

• 19 MCP tools for notes, links, search, graph analysis, and cluster management
• 6 workflow prompts (with matching skills) that encode the method so you don't re-learn it each session
• BM25 full-text search across titles and content via SQLite FTS5
• Cluster detection that surfaces emergent topic groups and scaffolds structure notes
• Seven typed links: reference, extends, refines, contradicts, questions, supports, related

Plain files, no lock-in

Notes are markdown with YAML frontmatter, readable in Obsidian, Foam, Logseq, or any editor. The SQLite database is only an index. Delete it and rebuild from the files anytime.

Install with pipx install slipbox-mcp (or uv tool install slipbox-mcp), point SLIPBOX_BASE_DIR at a data directory, and connect it to your MCP client.