trilium-mcp

A community-built MCP server for TriliumNext that enables AI agents to read and write notes, labels, and relations via the ETAPI. It supports creating, updating, searching, and managing a self-hosted knowledge base tree of notes with attributes.

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Community listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by OVDEN13

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What you can do with it

Capture research dumps and decisions into notes
Maintain structured tables using notes-as-rows and labels-as-columns
Search the existing knowledge base and feed snippets into conversations
Manage note relations and labels for organization

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.1.5

mcp-registry: io.github.OVDEN13/trilium-mcp@0.1.5 Source repository

Maintenance checked: Oct 31, 2026, 10:59 PM UTC

Packages and installation

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ghcr.io/ovden13/trilium-mcp:0.1.5

oci

ghcr.io/ovden13/trilium-mcp:0.1.5 package definition

{
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "ghcr.io/ovden13/trilium-mcp:0.1.5",
  "registryType": "oci",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "TRILIUM_URL",
      "format": "string",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "Base URL of the Trilium ETAPI. Comma-separated for failover: fast LAN first, public fallback (e.g. http://192.168.0.10:8092,https://memo.example.com)."
    },
    {
      "name": "TRILIUM_TOKEN",
      "format": "string",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "ETAPI token created in Trilium under Options -> ETAPI"
    },
    {
      "name": "TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Per-request HTTP timeout in seconds (default 30)"
    },
    {
      "name": "TRILIUM_MCP_LOG",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Tool-call log level on stderr: off / info (default) / debug"
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trilium-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "TRILIUM_URL=<YOUR_TRILIUM_URL>",
        "-e",
        "TRILIUM_TOKEN=<YOUR_TRILIUM_TOKEN>",
        "-e",
        "TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=<YOUR_TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS>",
        "-e",
        "TRILIUM_MCP_LOG=<YOUR_TRILIUM_MCP_LOG>",
        "ghcr.io/ovden13/trilium-mcp:0.1.5"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TRILIUM_URL": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_URL>",
        "TRILIUM_TOKEN": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_TOKEN>",
        "TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS>",
        "TRILIUM_MCP_LOG": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_MCP_LOG>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trilium-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "TRILIUM_URL=<YOUR_TRILIUM_URL>",
        "-e",
        "TRILIUM_TOKEN=<YOUR_TRILIUM_TOKEN>",
        "-e",
        "TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=<YOUR_TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS>",
        "-e",
        "TRILIUM_MCP_LOG=<YOUR_TRILIUM_MCP_LOG>",
        "ghcr.io/ovden13/trilium-mcp:0.1.5"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TRILIUM_URL": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_URL>",
        "TRILIUM_TOKEN": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_TOKEN>",
        "TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS>",
        "TRILIUM_MCP_LOG": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_MCP_LOG>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "trilium-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "TRILIUM_URL=<YOUR_TRILIUM_URL>",
        "-e",
        "TRILIUM_TOKEN=<YOUR_TRILIUM_TOKEN>",
        "-e",
        "TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=<YOUR_TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS>",
        "-e",
        "TRILIUM_MCP_LOG=<YOUR_TRILIUM_MCP_LOG>",
        "ghcr.io/ovden13/trilium-mcp:0.1.5"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TRILIUM_URL": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_URL>",
        "TRILIUM_TOKEN": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_TOKEN>",
        "TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS>",
        "TRILIUM_MCP_LOG": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_MCP_LOG>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trilium-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "TRILIUM_URL=<YOUR_TRILIUM_URL>",
        "-e",
        "TRILIUM_TOKEN=<YOUR_TRILIUM_TOKEN>",
        "-e",
        "TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=<YOUR_TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS>",
        "-e",
        "TRILIUM_MCP_LOG=<YOUR_TRILIUM_MCP_LOG>",
        "ghcr.io/ovden13/trilium-mcp:0.1.5"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TRILIUM_URL": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_URL>",
        "TRILIUM_TOKEN": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_TOKEN>",
        "TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS>",
        "TRILIUM_MCP_LOG": "<YOUR_TRILIUM_MCP_LOG>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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