# whetstone-mcp

> A local MCP server that lets any skill learn from use.

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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/whetstone-mcp-2/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/HrudithL/whetstone
- repository: https://github.com/HrudithL/whetstone
- version: 0.1.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agent, learning, mcp, memory, model-context-protocol, retrieval, skills
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:whetstone-mcp

### Description (declared)

# Whetstone

A local [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server that lets any skill learn from use.

Whetstone attaches to an existing skill and maintains a git-tracked, per-skill store of what a
user likes (`LEARNINGS`) and what the skill got wrong (`ISSUES`), so the skill can improve from
ordinary use without a benchmark, dataset, or eval harness. See
[`LEARNING_SKILLS_DESIGN.md`](https://github.com/HrudithL/whetstone/blob/main/LEARNING_SKILLS_DESIGN.md)
for the full design.

## Install

Requires Python 3.11+. The base install is light and dependency-free at retrieval time: it uses a
small, deterministic `hashing` embedding backend (no torch, no network).

```sh
pipx install whetstone-mcp     # installs the `whetstone` command on your PATH
# or: pip install whetstone-mcp
# or, run without installing: uvx whetstone-mcp
```

An install (pipx/pip) puts two equivalent console scripts on your PATH — `whetstone` (primary, used
throughout this README) and `whetstone-mcp` (same entry point, so `pipx run whetstone-mcp` /
`uvx whetstone-mcp` resolve without the short name).

Register it with an MCP host (e.g. Claude Code) — point the host at whichever you used:

```sh
# if you installed it (pipx/pip): the command is already on PATH
claude mcp add whetstone -- whetstone
# no install — let uv fetch & run it on demand:
claude mcp add whetstone -- uvx whetstone-mcp
```

For higher-quality embeddings, pull in the optional extra and set
`embedding_backend = "sentence-transformers"` in config. Match the command to how it's installed:

```sh
pipx install "whetstone-mcp[embeddings]"                 # fresh install, with the extra
pipx inject whetstone-mcp sentence-transformers          # add to an existing pipx install
pip install "whetstone-mcp[embeddings]"                  # pip
```

### From source (contributors)

```sh
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -e '.[dev]'
```

```sh
.venv/bin/pip install -e '.[embeddings]'   # pulls in sentence-transformers
```

## Run

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## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.version-control (1, derived)
- knowledge.memory (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/whetstone-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T15:24:41.034Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/whetstone-mcp-2/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/whetstone-mcp-2 · ARD identifier urn:air::server:whetstone-mcp-2