Connects Claude to Bear notes through CloudKit with 34 MCP tools covering search, create, edit, tagging, attachments, and todos. Includes a context library system inspired by Karpathy's LLM knowledge base pattern: tag notes with #context in Bear, sync them to a local folder with an index manifest, and Claude navigates using index-first retrieval instead of loading everything. Ships with bcli for command line management and one-command installation that configures both Claude Desktop and Claude Code. Reach for this if you keep reference material or working notes in Bear and want Claude to read, search, and update them without copy-paste, or if you want a curated subset synced as filesystem context.
claude mcp add --transport stdio mreider-better-bear uvx better-bear