DevBrain

by mimecam

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Finds relevant code snippets, developer articles, and blog posts based on your queries.

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mimecam
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Developer Tools, Knowledge Base, Other, Search

Setup

Install DevBrain in your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and others).

Repository: https://github.com/mimecam/mcp-devbrain-stdio

Follow the installation instructions in the repository README, then restart your MCP client.

Chat with your favorite newsletters(coding, tech, founder).

It is a newsletter-based MCP that searches for relevant code snippets, indie developer articles and blog posts so you don't have to hunt through generic web results again. Just ask LLM: "research <!-- --> on devbrain"

It's kind of like a web search, but specifically tuned for high-quality, developer-curated content. You can easily plug in your favorite newsletter to expand its knowledge base even further.

For example, when you are implementing feature "A", DevBrain can pull related articles that would serve as a solid reference and a foundation for your implementation.

DevBrain returns articles as short description + URL, you can then:

- instruct LLM agent likeClaudeorGooseto fetch full contents of the articles using provided URLs
- instruct LLM to implement a feature based on all or selected articles

Try quickly with remote http-transport MCP

"devbrain": { "type": "http", "url": "https://devbrain.svenai.com/mcp" },

Local Installation (remote http mcp recommended)

Viauvoruvx. Installuvanduvx(if not installed):

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Example command to run MCP server instdiomode:

uvx --python ">=3.10" --from devbrain devbrain-stdio-server

Use in Claude Code (or other coding agents)

[](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/@mimeCam/mcp-devbrain-stdio)<<<https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/mcp#installing-mcp-serversYou can either add MCP to cc manually or reference tthe same .json file that Claude app uses.

To adddevbrainto Claude's config, edit the file:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.jsonand insertdevbrainto existingmcpServersblock like so:

{ "mcpServers": { "devbrain": { "command": "uvx", "args": [ "--python", ">=3.10", "--force-reinstall", "--from", "devbrain", "devbrain-stdio-server" ] } } }

- Somehow it fails to get the latest version even when OS has it installed. Forcing an update (at least once) is required for Claude app. This is done with--force-reinstallarg.
- Claude is known to failwhen working withuvanduvxbinaries. See related:https://gist.github.com/gregelin/b90edaef851f86252c88ecc066c93719. If you encounter this error then run these commands in a Terminal:

sudo ln -s ~/.local/bin/uvx /usr/local/bin/uvx
sudo ln -s ~/.local/bin/uv /usr/local/bin/uv

Integration for Cline and other AI agents

Command to start DevBrain MCP instdiomode:

uvx --python ">=3.10" --force-reinstall --from devbrain devbrain-stdio-server

and add this command to a config file of the AI agent (Cline or other).

Note that DevBrain requires Python 3.10+ support. Most systems have it installed. However VS Code (that Cline depends on) is shipped with Python 3.9. Use correct version of Python when running DevBrain MCP. A corrected version to launch DevBrain MCP looks like this:

uvx --python ">=3.10" --force-reinstall --from devbrain devbrain-stdio-server

You can run this MCP as a Docker container in STDIO mode. First build an image withbuild.sh. Then add a config to Claude like so:

{ "mcpServers": { "devbrain": { "command": "docker", "args": [ "run", "-i", "--rm", "svenai/mcp-devbrain-stdio:latest" ] } } }

Test command to verify that docker container works correctly:

docker run -i --rm svenai/mcp-devbrain-stdio:latest

This project is released under the MIT License and is developed by mimeCam as an open-source initiative.

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