# vata-mcp

> A personal link/notes archive exposed as an MCP server — the calling LLM decides categorization, you bring your own MongoDB

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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/vata-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/vivekvpai/vata/tree/mcp
- repository: https://github.com/vivekvpai/vata/tree/mcp
- version: 0.2.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: bookmarks, claude, llm, mcp, model-context-protocol, mongodb, notes
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:vata-mcp

### Description (declared)

# vata-mcp

Vata exposed as an MCP server: a personal link/notes archive. Save a link
or note; the LLM already driving your chat session decides its title,
category, description, and tags and calls `vata_save` with them — you
just save and search, categories are never something you manage by hand.

**Design note:** the categorization "AI" here is not a separate service —
it's whichever model is already in your MCP client (Claude, etc.). The
`/vata-save` prompt instructs it to call `vata_list_categories`, decide
fit-or-new itself, and pass explicit values into `vata_save`. No
`VATA_LLM_MODEL` or API key is needed for this to work well. That setting
only matters for callers that *can't* reason (a bare script calling the
tool directly) — see [Tools](#tools) below.

Design docs: [VATA_MCP_PLAN.md](VATA_MCP_PLAN.md),
[VATA_SCHEMA.md](VATA_SCHEMA.md), [VATA_DATAFLOW.md](VATA_DATAFLOW.md).
Single-user per install — everyone who installs this runs their own
server against their own database; there's no shared/multi-tenant
service.

## Install

```bash
pipx install vata-mcp
vata-mcp setup
```

The setup wizard walks you through picking a MongoDB (local or Atlas,
validated live), an optional fallback LLM, an optional access token, and
an optional `/vata-clean` password — then prints a ready-to-paste MCP
client config block. Full walkthrough, including MongoDB installation, in
[SETUP.md](SETUP.md). Per-client config instructions (Claude Desktop/Code
confirmed working; ChatGPT/Windsurf/Gemini attempted, not confirmed) in
[CLIENT_SETUP.md](CLIENT_SETUP.md).

Settings are saved to a config file (env vars still override it if set —
see [Environment variables](#environment-variables)), so `vata-mcp setup`
only needs to run once.

## Deploying remotely (optional, free tier, ~15 min)

Only needed if you want Vata reachable from somewhere other than the
machine it's installed on (e.g. so a phone or a second computer can use
it too). Personal local use does not need this section at al…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.database (1, declared)
- productivity.notes (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/vata-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T15:23:07.868Z)

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