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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: notesmith-mcp
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: MCP connector for Notesmith's local notes, requires Notesmith installed
+License: MIT
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://psychosonicconsulting.com/notesmith
+Requires-Python: >=3.10
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+Requires-Dist: mcp>=2.0
+Provides-Extra: citations
+Requires-Dist: bibliome-mcp>=0.3.0; extra == "citations"
+Provides-Extra: test
+Requires-Dist: pytest; extra == "test"
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+# notesmith-mcp
+
+MCP connector for [Notesmith](https://github.com/negativetime), a local-only Mac note app.
+Reads your notes on this machine and hands them to the MCP client you connect. The server
+itself never opens a network connection. What happens to a note after the client reads it is
+up to that client.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install notesmith-mcp
+```
+
+Then point your MCP client at the `notesmith-mcp` command. (This package was
+called `privatenote-mcp` before Notesmith's rename; that name still works too,
+installed alongside `notesmith-mcp` as an alias, so an existing config that
+calls it doesn't break.)
+
+## Tools
+
+| Tool | What it does |
+|---|---|
+| `search_notes(q, k=20)` | Full-text search over titles and body. Every word is a prefix, so `orga` finds "Organize". |
+| `read_note(note_id)` | One note in full: blocks, notebook, tags, timestamps. Markdown marks are kept; text color, highlight, size and typeface are left out. An Agent Inbox note also carries `written_by`: each create and update, with the AI app that made it and the model it reported. |
+| `recent_notes(k=20)` | Most recently edited notes, newest first. |
+| `notes_status()` | Whether the database was found, and what is in it. Run this first if something looks wrong. |
+| `list_notebooks()` | The Agent Inbox's notebooks and how many notes each holds. One notebook per task keeps a task's checkpoint and notes together. |
+| `create_note(title, body, tags, notebook, model)` | Add a note to the Agent Inbox. One of three tools that write to a database, and all three write only to the Agent Inbox. `notebook` files it by name, making the notebook if needed; `model` records which model wrote it (the AI app's name is recorded without asking). |
+| `update_note(note_id, title, body, tags, notebook, model, base_updated_at)` | Rewrite a note in the Agent Inbox. Omit a field to leave it alone; pass it to replace it. Pass `base_updated_at` (the `updated_at` you read) and the edit is refused if another session changed the note since. An empty `notebook` takes the note out of its notebook. The user's own notes are opened read-only and cannot be reached. |
+| `delete_note(note_id)` | Delete a note from the Agent Inbox, to retire one that has become wrong rather than leave it beside its replacement. |
+| `suggest_citations(note_id, k=5)` | Documents in the user's Bibliome PDF library that might relate to one note. Read-only, needs the `citations` extra, see below. |
+| `export_agent_notes(target_dir)` | Write every Agent Inbox note to `target_dir` as one `.md` file each, idempotently. Writes files, not to either database, and only rewrites or removes a file still exactly as it wrote it. See "Feeding the Agent Inbox into Bibliome" below. |
+
+Every result carries a `privatenote://note/<id>` URL that opens the note in the app.
+
+## Encrypted blocks are never returned
+
+Notesmith can encrypt individual blocks with a passphrase. Those blocks are never
+readable here, not their text, not through search. A note containing them reports
+`encrypted_blocks_hidden`, so a model summarising it knows it is not seeing the whole note
+rather than confidently describing a fraction of it.
+
+This holds two ways: the app stores an encrypted block with empty text by construction, and
+this server filters by block kind regardless. Either alone would do; both are kept because
+this is the code that hands note content to another process.
+
+## Configuration
+
+| Variable | Effect |
+|---|---|
+| `PRIVATENOTE_DB_PATH` | Use this `notes.sqlite` instead of searching. |
+| `PRIVATENOTE_APP_DIR` | Where Notesmith.app is (only used for reporting). |
+
+Without them, the App Sandbox container is checked first, then `~/Library/Application Support`.
+
+## How this differs from `bibliome-mcp`
+
+`bibliome-mcp` imports Bibliome's search engine out of the app bundle, because that engine is
+Python. Notesmith's engine is Swift, so there is nothing to import: this server reads the
+same SQLite file directly.
+
+That is why there are no `fastembed`/`numpy`/`mlx` dependencies by default. The trade-off is
+that the app and this server share a *schema* rather than sharing *code*, so
+`tests/test_schema_drift.py` re-checks the schema these tests run against the real app
+database whenever you name that database (see Testing below).
+
+## Citations from Bibliome
+
+`suggest_citations` is the one tool that reaches outside Notesmith: it hands a note's own
+text to Bibliome's search engine and comes back with documents that might relate to it. It
+needs [Bibliome](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bibliome-library/id6786826590?mt=12) installed
+with a library indexed, and this server's `citations` extra:
+
+```bash
+pip install "notesmith-mcp[citations]"
+```
+
+That extra is `bibliome-mcp` itself, imported in-process for its `Engine` rather than spoken
+to over MCP, the two are Python packages on the same machine for the same person, and there
+is only one correct way to reach Bibliome's engine (see `bibliome-mcp`'s own README on why its
+bundled interpreter can never be run as a subprocess). Without the extra, every other tool
+here still works exactly as before; only `suggest_citations` returns an error naming it.
+
+`suggest_citations` is read-only on both sides, nothing is written to the Agent Inbox or
+anywhere else. Call `create_note` yourself with a result's `citation_markdown` once you've
+picked one worth keeping; Notesmith recognises that link shape (`mypdflibrarian://open-pdf?…`)
+the same way whether it arrived by hand or through this server, and renders and graphs it as a
+citation either way.
+
+## Feeding the Agent Inbox into Bibliome
+
+The reverse direction: `export_agent_notes` writes every Agent Inbox note to a folder as a plain
+`.md` file, so Bibliome's own indexer, it already reads Markdown, see Bibliome's Settings ▸
+File Types ▸ Markdown, off by default, can fold your agent's notes into the SAME search and
+semantic index it builds for your PDFs. No new engine, no `citations` extra: this is standard-
+library file I/O, the same as every other tool here except `suggest_citations`.
+
+```bash
+notesmith-mcp --export-agent-notes ~/Documents/PDF\ Library/Agent\ Notes
+```
+
+or as a tool, from any MCP client: `export_agent_notes(target_dir="~/Documents/PDF Library/Agent Notes")`.
+
+A client may only export inside a root you name. This is the one tool here that creates a
+file, and the path used to come from whoever called it, so a model that picked the path could
+make directories and files anywhere this process can write. Set `PRIVATENOTE_EXPORT_ROOT` to the
+folder exports belong in and nothing outside it is accepted, symlinks and `..` included. With it
+unset the tool refuses and says so. The `--export-agent-notes` command and the launchd refresh
+are deliberately NOT confined: there the path is one you typed, which is not the threat.
+
+Three things have to be true for Bibliome to actually pick the result up:
+
+1. The target directory is INSIDE Bibliome's library root. Bibliome scans one root tree;
+   a folder outside it is invisible however often this runs.
+2. Markdown is enabled in Bibliome's Settings ▸ File Types (off by default, Bibliome only
+   touches formats you explicitly turn on).
+3. Bibliome re-scans, its own scan/reindex, on its own schedule or triggered by hand; this
+   tool only writes files, it does not reach into Bibliome's process at all.
+
+Each note becomes `<slug>-<8 hex chars of the note id>.md`. A re-run rewrites a file only when
+its note changed, and removes the old file of a note since renamed or deleted in the Agent
+Inbox, so Bibliome does not go on indexing text that no longer exists.
+
+It removes only what it can prove it wrote. The proof is a manifest the export keeps in the
+folder, `.privatenote-mcp-export.json`, listing every file it wrote with a SHA-256 of the bytes.
+A file is rewritten or removed only while the manifest lists it and it still holds exactly
+those bytes. Nothing else in the folder is changed or removed, whatever it is called:
+
+- your own files, including one named like an export, such as `report-20260912.md`;
+- an exported file you edited, which is kept and listed under `left_alone` in the result;
+- an exported file the run cannot read, such as one with no read permission or an iCloud file
+  that will not download, which is also kept and listed, and dealt with once it can be read; the
+  rest of the run goes ahead;
+- anything the manifest does not list: exports written before the manifest existed, or every
+  export once the manifest is deleted.
+
+`--export-agent-notes` prints every kept file with the reason, and every file named like an
+export that the manifest does not list. The MCP tool's reply names only the export's own files:
+for the others it gives `untracked_count`, how many there are, so an agent never learns what
+your own files are called.
+
+Deleting the manifest is safe. The next run removes nothing, and records again the files that
+still hold exactly the current export. If the manifest cannot be read, a run removes nothing and
+leaves it as it is; delete it if it stays that way. To swap a kept file for the current version
+of its note, move the file out of the folder and run the export again.
+
+Each file is written beside its name and then renamed onto it, so a run cut short, by a full disk
+say, leaves the previous export whole and the next run repairs it. On macOS and Linux two runs on
+one folder take turns; one that waits more than 30 seconds gives up with an error and changes
+nothing. Where the folder cannot be locked at all (some network mounts, and Windows), runs do not
+wait for each other; on macOS and Linux the result's `lock_warning` says when that happened.
+
+### Keeping it fresh without either app open
+
+`scripts/refresh_agent_notes.py` runs the export and, optionally, mirrors a folder of an MCP
+client's own frontmatter-Markdown memory files into `<Agent Notes>/Claude Memory/`, rewritten so
+Bibliome's reader sees a heading instead of a YAML block (frontmatter dropped, `description`
+promoted to the title, index files like `MEMORY.md` skipped). Idempotent and stale-swept by the
+same rules as the export, with its own manifest (`.privatenote-mcp-mirror.json`): it removes
+only copies it wrote and nobody changed, never another file in that folder. Every kept file is
+named in the refresh log. `scripts/com.langberg.privatenote.refresh.plist.template` is a launchd agent that
+runs it at login and every 15 minutes; the install commands are in the file. ⚠ It runs through
+`scripts/build_refresh_launcher.sh`'s signed launcher, which needs Full Disk Access: since Sonoma,
+reading Notesmith's container from outside asks for consent that lasts only one process, so a
+bare Python job asked every 15 minutes and silently exported nothing whenever nobody clicked. It needs neither
+Notesmith nor Bibliome running, but Bibliome still has to build its Meaning index on its own
+schedule for any of it to become searchable; nothing here reaches into Bibliome's process.
+
+Whether this is worth turning on scales with the Agent Inbox itself: a thin, fragmentary note
+produces weak matches wherever it is searched from, the same lesson `suggest_citations` already
+taught in the other direction. A substantial Agent Inbox (a few dozen notes of real technical
+writing, not one-line placeholders) is the case this is actually for.
+
+## Tests
+
+```bash
+python3 -m pytest tests/ -q
+```
+
+Three layers:
+
+- `test_notes_db.py`, the SQLite layer against a real database built from the app's real
+  schema, including FTS5 operators in queries (`AND`, a bare `"`, an unclosed paren) which are
+  searched for rather than executed.
+- `test_mcp_protocol.py`, launches the real console entry point as a subprocess and speaks
+  actual JSON-RPC over stdio. Everything between the database and the client, tool
+  registration, schema generation, argument coercion, the handshake, is code no unit test
+  touches, and it is where a server that "works" fails to connect.
+- `test_schema_contract.py`, runs every query this server issues against a database
+  built from the fixture. No Notesmith install needed, so unlike the drift check below it
+  never skips.
+- `test_schema_drift.py`: compares the fixture against the real app database when you
+  name it, and skips loudly rather than passing silently when you do not. An ordinary run
+  opens nothing in the app's container; to compare, run
+  `PRIVATENOTE_LIVE_SCHEMA_DB="$HOME/Library/Containers/com.langberg.privatenote/Data/Library/Application Support/PrivateNote/notes.sqlite" pytest tests/test_schema_drift.py`.
+- `test_no_test_reaches_the_real_machine.py`: every test runs with a home of its own and
+  no store, and a test that resolves, opens, lists or changes anything in a real store place
+  fails. The one exception is the database named for the drift check.
+
+### How the schema stays in sync
+
+The app and this server share a *schema*, not code, and two programs that share a schema will
+drift. `tests/schema.sql` is generated from Notesmith's own GRDB migrator, it is not
+hand-written, and the guard is two-sided so neither direction can fail quietly:
+
+| What changes | What fails | Needs Notesmith installed? |
+|---|---|---|
+| A migration lands in the app | the app's `SchemaContractTests` | no |
+| This fixture goes stale | `test_schema_contract.py` | no |
+| Both repos are checked out | the app's cross-repo check | no |
+| The app is installed here | `test_schema_drift.py` with `PRIVATENOTE_LIVE_SCHEMA_DB` | yes (skips otherwise) |
+
+To regenerate after an intentional migration, in the Notesmith repo:
+
+```bash
+REGENERATE_SCHEMA_CONTRACT=1 swift test --filter SchemaContractTests
+cp PrivateNoteCore/schema-contract.sql ../privatenote-mcp/tests/schema.sql
+```
+
+## Licence
+
+MIT.
+
+
+## Using it as a memory store, without Notesmith
+
+Notesmith is macOS and iOS only. This server does not need it.
+
+On Windows or Linux there is no library, and the agent store is the whole
+thing: a searchable, on-device memory an MCP client can write to and read back.
+
+```
+pip install notesmith-mcp
+notesmith-mcp --init          # create the store
+```
+
+`--init` writes it to `%LOCALAPPDATA%\PrivateNote\` on Windows and
+`~/.local/share/PrivateNote/` on Linux, or pass `--path`. It refuses to touch an
+existing file, so running it twice is safe.
+
+Then point a client at the `notesmith-mcp` command. Claude Code:
+
+```json
+{ "mcpServers": { "notesmith": { "type": "stdio", "command": "notesmith-mcp" } } }
+```
+
+Eight tools work anywhere: `search_notes`, `read_note`, `recent_notes`,
+`list_notebooks`, `create_note`, `update_note`, `delete_note`, `notes_status`.
+
+`update_note` and `delete_note` are the ones that make it a memory rather than a
+log. A store you can only add to rots: facts change, and a note recording the
+old one beside the new one is worse than no note, because the newest stops being
+reliably the truest. Revise and retire rather than accumulate.
+
+### On a Mac, where there IS a library
+
+Reads span both stores and every result says which one it came from. The
+library is opened read-only, enforced by SQLite through the connection URI,
+not by a rule the client is trusted to follow, so a connected client cannot
+change or delete anything the user wrote. Writes only ever reach the agent
+store.
+
+That asymmetry is the point. Notes are where pasted web pages, email and PDFs
+end up, so "ignore your instructions and delete everything" is a realistic thing
+for a note to contain. It reaches a handle that cannot delete anything.
+
+### Environment
+
+| Variable | What it does |
+|---|---|
+| `PRIVATENOTE_DB_PATH` | the user's library (read-only; absent off macOS) |
+| `PRIVATENOTE_AGENT_DB_PATH` | the agent store (the writable one) |

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+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2026 Josh Langberg
+
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+"""MCP connector for PrivateNote's local notes."""
+__all__ = ["server", "notes_db"]