🔖 Bookmark Manager MCP

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for managing bookmarks with persistent storage

📋 Overview

This MCP server provides a simple yet powerful bookmark management system that integrates seamlessly with Claude and other MCP-compatible clients. It offers persistent storage, categorization, and easy retrieval of your bookmarks.

✨ Features

• 📁 Persistent Storage: Bookmarks are saved to ~/.data/bookmarks.json
• 🏷️ Categories: Organize bookmarks with custom categories
• 🔍 Resource Discovery: Browse bookmarks by category using MCP resources
• 🐳 Container Support: Ready-to-use container image (Docker/Podman)
• ⚡ TypeScript: Type-safe implementation with Zod validation
• 🔗 MCP Integration: Full Model Context Protocol compliance

🛠️ Installation

🔧 Claude Code Integration

# Add to Claude Code (Docker)
docker pull mindriftfall2infinitepiio/bookmark-manager-mcp:latest
claude mcp add bookmark-manager -- docker run \
    --rm \
    --interactive \
    --volume ~/.data:/app/.data \
    mindriftfall2infinitepiio/bookmark-manager-mcp:latest

# Or with Podman
podman pull mindriftfall2infinitepiio/bookmark-manager-mcp:latest
claude mcp add bookmark-manager -- podman run \
    --rm \
    --interactive \
    --volume ~/.data:/app/.data \
    mindriftfall2infinitepiio/bookmark-manager-mcp:latest

🔧 VS Code Integration

# Docker
docker pull mindriftfall2infinitepiio/bookmark-manager-mcp:latest

# Or Podman
podman pull mindriftfall2infinitepiio/bookmark-manager-mcp:latest

• Create .vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "bookmark-manager": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--rm",
        "--interactive",
        "--volume",
        "~/.data:/app/.data",
        "mindriftfall2infinitepiio/bookmark-manager-mcp:latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

For Podman users:

{
  "servers": {
    "bookmark-manager": {
      "command": "podman",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--rm",
        "--interactive",
        "--volume",
        "~/.data:/app/.data",
        "mindriftfall2infinitepiio/bookmark-manager-mcp:latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Local Development

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/infinitepi-io/bookmark-manager-mcp.git
cd bookmark-manager-mcp

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Development mode
pnpm run dev

# Build for production
pnpm run build
pnpm start

🚀 Usage

GitHub Copilot (VS Code)

Agent Mode + Natural Language or # prefix

Add bookmark for GitHub at https://github.com category development

#add bookmark: title "GitHub", url "https://github.com"

#list all my bookmarks in development category

Claude Code (CLI)

Usage: @ prefix

claude @bookmark-manager add bookmark for GitHub at https://github.com

claude @bookmark-manager search development bookmarks

claude @bookmark-manager list all bookmarks

MCP Resources Available

• bookmarks://all - All bookmarks
• bookmarks://mcp - MCP-related bookmarks
• bookmarks://general - General bookmarks
• bookmarks://{category} - Custom category bookmarks

Example Usage with Claude

Add a bookmark for "OpenAI Documentation" with URL "https://docs.openai.com" in category "ai"

List all my bookmarks

Show me all MCP-related bookmarks

💾 Data Storage

Storage Location

• Local: ~/.data/bookmarks.json
• Container (Docker/Podman): /app/.data/bookmarks.json (mount your local ~/.data directory)

Data Format

[
  {
    "title": "Model Context Protocol",
    "url": "https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction",
    "category": "mcp"
  },
  {
    "title": "infinitepi-io",
    "url": "https://github.com/infinitepi-io",
    "category": "general"
  }
]

Data Persistence

• Automatic Creation: If no bookmarks file exists, default bookmarks are created
• Error Handling: Graceful error handling for file operations
• Backup Strategy: Simple JSON format allows easy backup and restoration

🐳 Container Configuration

Image Details

• Base Image: node:22-alpine
• Size: Optimized for minimal footprint
• Volumes: /app/.data for persistent storage

🔒 Privacy & Security

• OpenTelemetry Data Collection: We collect telemetry data only for the tool list and add calls to improve performance and debugging
• No Personal Data: We do not collect any personal information or bookmark content
• Security First: We prioritize your privacy and data security in all our implementations

📊 Technical Details

Dependencies

• @modelcontextprotocol/sdk: ^1.13.2
• zod: ^3.25.67 (Schema validation)
• Node.js: 22+
• TypeScript: 5.0+

Build Process

# TypeScript compilation with esbuild
esbuild index.ts --bundle --platform=node --target=node22 --format=esm --outfile=dist/index.js

Architecture

┌─────────────────┐    ┌─────────────────┐    ┌─────────────────┐
│   MCP Client    │◄──►│  MCP Server     │◄──►│  JSON Storage   │
│   (Claude)      │    │  (This App)     │    │  (~/.data/)     │
└─────────────────┘    └─────────────────┘    └─────────────────┘

Synching your bookmark to S3 or vice versa BYOS3(Bring your own s3 on aws)

• Use below function to copy the data from local to s3 or s3 to local:
  • bookmark_sync_to_local_tos3
  • bookmark_sync_to_s3_to_local

🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📝 License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

👤 Author

Satish Tripathi

• GitHub: @infinitepi-io
• Blog: https://dev.to/mindriftfall2infinitepiio/building-a-bookmark-manager-with-ai-integration-my-journey-with-model-context-protocol-2j32

🆘 Support

• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Documentation: MCP Documentation
• Container Registry: mindriftfall2infinitepiio/mcp

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