Outline MCP Server

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add mcp-outline -e OUTLINE_API_KEY=... -e OUTLINE_API_URL=... -- uvx mcp-outline

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-outline": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-outline"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OUTLINE_API_KEY": "...",
        "OUTLINE_API_URL": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

Connect AI assistants to Outline for document search, reading, and management

Questions

Outline MCP Server is a local MCP server distributed as the pypi package mcp-outline.

Run: claude mcp add mcp-outline -e OUTLINE_API_KEY=... -e OUTLINE_API_URL=... -- uvx mcp-outline

Run: codex mcp add mcp-outline --env OUTLINE_API_KEY=... --env OUTLINE_API_URL=... -- uvx mcp-outline

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