# plainsong-mcp

> A Model Context Protocol server for Plainsong: many agents, one score.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/plainsong-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/SuperInstance/plainsong-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/SuperInstance/plainsong
- version: 1.0.1
- license: MIT License
        
        Copyright (c) 2026 Casey Digennaro…
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, model, context, protocol, music, notation, agents, midi
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:plainsong-mcp

### Description (declared)

# plainsong-mcp

<p align="center">
  <img src="assets/images/hero.jpg" alt="Agents composing — the MCP seam between notation and sound" width="640">
</p>

A Model Context Protocol server for [Plainsong](https://github.com/SuperInstance/plainsong),
so any agent can read, write and compile music notation — and so several agents
can work on one score at the same time without overwriting each other.

```bash
plainsong-mcp                 # JSON-RPC over stdio, what most clients expect
plainsong-mcp --http          # loopback HTTP, for remote and multi-agent setups
plainsong-mcp --list-tools    # what it exposes
```

## Install

```bash
pip install git+https://github.com/SuperInstance/plainsong-mcp
```

That brings in the compiler as well. Neither has any other dependency: the
protocol, both transports, the session store and the compiler itself are
written against the standard library. Python 3.10 or newer.

The compiler comes from PyPI as `plainsong>=1.4.0`. 1.1.0 is the first release
carrying `plainsong.features`, the per-bar analysis this package re-exports
rather than duplicating; 1.4.0 is the first carrying `plainsong.runtime.localhost`,
the loopback check behind the same re-export, so 1.4.0 is now the binding floor.
Either way the requirement is real: below it the install succeeds and the
import fails.

## Point a client at it

For a client that launches servers over stdio, the usual shape is:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "plainsong": {
      "command": "plainsong-mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

Then ask it for music. The server exposes 27 tools, which is everything the
`plainsong` CLI can do — write and validate notation, compile to MIDI and
audio, transpose, search a library of several thousand pieces, analyse what
each listener on a stage actually hears, and probe what the host machine can
render.

## Many agents, one score

The reason this exists. A session gives every agent a voice of its own:

```
ensemble_open    name a session, set key, tempo and metre
ensemble…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- media.music (1, declared)
- dev.package-management (0.768, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/plainsong-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T10:23:06.086Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/plainsong-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/plainsong-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:plainsong-mcp