Solomd
About
A markdown editor — and the bridge to your LLM. Local-first, MIT, ~15 MB. Bundled MCP server lets Claude Code / Codex / Cursor drive your vault directly. 14 AI providers BYOK.
Details
- License
- MIT
Explore
- First-class agent surface inside the editor
- Bundled MCP server with 13 tools
- Local-first: no cloud servers required
- Supports 14 AI providers (BYOK)
- AutoGit version control per note
- Scheduled recipes with YAML
Setting up with Highlight
This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
-
Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
SolomdCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
From the repository
Latest release: v4.0.0.
solomd mcp-config
json{
"mcpServers": {
"solomd": {
"command": "/Applications/SoloMD.app/Contents/Resources/solomd-mcp",
"args": ["--workspace", "/Users/me/Documents/SoloMD"]
}
}
}
Paste into Claude Desktop / Cursor / etc. For multi-vault federation, repeat --workspace:
json"args": [
"--workspace", "/Users/me/Documents/SoloMD",
"--workspace", "/Users/me/Documents/work-notes"
]
4. Or hand a prompt to claude / codex CLI directly:
bashsolomd agent "rewrite this week of dailies into a weekly review and commit it"
```
Path-traversal guarded. No network port. The LLM only sees what you point the workspace at.
Claude Desktop / Cursor
Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"solomd": {
"solomd": {
"command": "solomd-mcp"
}
}
}
}
McpServers
{
"solomd": {
"command": "solomd-mcp"
}
}
> The editor where agents live.
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Your notes live in a folder. SoloMD is the editor on top — with a first-class agent surface inside the editor, and the MCP endpoint Claude Code / Cursor can drive from outside. Same .md files. Chat with your vault. Schedule recipes that run when you're not at the keyboard. Hand the same vault to any MCP client.
Built on Tauri 2 + Vue 3 + CodeMirror 6. Universal macOS dmg ~32 MB. Free, MIT, no subscription, no SoloMD-hosted servers. Your notes, AI keys, embeddings index, and git history all stay on your machine.
New in 4.6 — the knowledge-graph layer
The structural half Obsidian and Tolaria had and SoloMD didn't — now built, and on SoloMD's own warm design system:
- Properties inspector (⌘⇧I) — edit YAML frontmatter with type/date/status/relation pickers; line-surgical writes preserve your comments, inline arrays and quoting byte-for-byte.
- Type-driven sidebar — give a note type: Project and its members become a first-class collapsible section with custom icon/colour/columns (types-as-lenses).
- Typed relationships — belongs_to / related_to / has frontmatter with automatic inverses, resolved server-side for big vaults.
- Relationship graph ("Neighborhood") — per-note explorer of outgoing + inverse links; click to navigate, ⌘-click to pivot.
- Saved filtered views — persistent sidebar views (.solomd/views/.yml) with a recursive all/any filter builder (type / status / date / regex).
- Inbox workflow — ⌘E mark-organized + auto-advance to inbox-zero.
- tldraw whiteboards — Markdown-backed boards ( `tldraw fence), cross-compatible with Tolaria's on-disk format, lazy-loaded so the core stays light.
Plus a unified macOS title bar (traffic lights inline in the toolbar) and a from-scratch design-system + Vue component library. Still ~15–32 MB, still free, still local-first. → Compare vs Obsidian / Typora / Tolaria
Three halves of one product
The editor. WYSIWYG live edit (Typora-style), tabs + split panes, KaTeX + Mermaid, image paste to _assets/, slideshow mode (⌘⌥P), Vim mode, Hunspell + CJK proofread, semantic search (⌘⇧F), wikilinks + backlinks, Pandoc export. CJK encodings (GBK / Big5 / Shift-JIS) auto-detected.
The endpoint. A bundled solomd-mcp binary exposes the same vault to any MCP client — 13 tools out of the box, including 5 SoloMD-only ones (autogit_log, autogit_diff, autogit_rollback, sync_status, share_url) that no other markdown server has. v4.0 adds --workspace path1 --workspace path2 federation — one MCP session, many vaults. Plus a solomd agent <prompt> CLI that hands off to Claude Code / Codex CLI with the MCP pre-wired.
The agent surface (v4.0). Right-side Agent Panel: streamed chat-with-vault, [[wikilink]] citations, tool-call cards inline, Insert / Copy buttons drop the reply into the active note. Plus declarative recipes as YAML in <workspace>/.solomd/agents/.yml — cron / on-save / on-commit / on-tag-add / manual triggers. Every agent write lands on its own AutoGit branch you accept or reject before it touches main; write-cap default 5; refuses to start when the working tree is dirty; replayable trace.jsonl per run with read_agent_trace MCP tool.
| Feature | |
|---|---|
| Agent Panel (v4.0) | Streamed chat-with-vault peer to Outline / Backlinks / Tags / History. Tool-call cards expand inline; reply Insert / Copy to active editor; run history persists as plain markdown under .solomd/agent-runs/. |
| Scheduled recipes (v4.0) | YAML jobs in your vault. AutoGit branch sandbox + accept/reject UI before merge. Per-run write-cap (default 5, ceiling 50). 11-recipe cookbook ships in-tree. |
| Replayable trace (v4.0) | trace.jsonl per step (prompt / model_call / tool_call / tool_result / git_commit). Replay-from-step rewinds and re-executes. |
| Workspace federation (v4.0) | solomd-mcp --workspace path1 --workspace path2. One Claude Desktop session, many vaults. MCP profiles UI in Settings → Integrations. |
| Ollama first-class (v4.0) | Auto-detect at localhost:11434. Three model presets (qwen2.5:1.5b/7b/14b). provider: local recipe alias for zero-cloud-cost autonomous loops. |
| AI rewrite, BYOK | 14 providers — OpenAI · Claude · Gemini · DeepSeek · Qwen · GLM · Kimi · Doubao · SiliconFlow · OpenRouter · Mistral · Groq · xAI · Ollama. Direct vendor calls. Keys in OS keychain. |
| GitHub-backed sync | Push your vault to a private GitHub repo on every save. Optional E2EE (Argon2id + XChaCha20-Poly1305). GitLab / Gitea / any HTTPS git URL works too. |
| AutoGit per note | Every ⌘S is a commit in a local .git inside the workspace. libgit2 vendored, no system git needed. Never auto-pushed. |
| MCP server bundled | solomd-mcp ships in the install. 13 tools (8 generic + 5 SoloMD-only). stdio only, no network port. Read-only by default; --allow-write opt-in. |
| REST API (v4.0) | Localhost only, token auth. Same surface as MCP for clients that don't speak MCP yet — Alfred / Raycast / n8n / your own scripts. |
| BYOK cost meter (v4.0) | Per-provider running tokens-spent counter, opt-in. Settings → Integrations. |
| Cloud-folder mode | If your vault lives in ~/Library/Mobile Documents/... or ~/Dropbox/..., SoloMD detects it and adds cross-device session restore on top — the OS already does the file sync. |
| Public read-only share | Command palette → copy solomd.app/share/?repo=...&path=... link. Renders any file in your public GitHub repo, no SoloMD account needed to view. |
Use it
After installing SoloMD on macOS / Linux:
1. Chat with your vault. Open the right-side Agent Panel (⌘⇧P → "View: Toggle Agent Panel" if hidden). Streamed multi-turn against your notes; tool-call cards show every read/write inline. Reply too long? Insert drops it into the active note at the cursor (replaces selection); Copy to clipboard.
2. Schedule a recipe. Settings → Recipes → Browse cookbook. 11 starters ready: weekly review, daily summary, TODO extraction, translation pass, citation cleanup, CJK proofread agent, link-rot detector, frontmatter normalizer, outline-to-blog, refactor pass, weekly tag triage. Install one, edit the prompt, run it.
3. Drive the same vault from another LLM client. One-shot:
```bash
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