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workflowy

local MCP server

workflowy is a local MCP server: Create, update, complete nodes, search & replace with regex and dry run, usage reports, transforms. Install it from oci as ghcr.io/mholzen/workflowy:0.8.1.

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add workflowy -e WORKFLOWY_API_KEY=... -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/mholzen/workflowy:0.8.1

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": {
    "workflowy": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/mholzen/workflowy:0.8.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WORKFLOWY_API_KEY": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

What you need

  • Runtime: Docker.
  • MCP client: Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Claude Desktop, Cursor or any other client that speaks MCP over stdio.
  • Environment variables: WORKFLOWY_API_KEY

Summary

Create, update, complete nodes, search & replace with regex and dry run, usage reports, transforms

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Questions

It reads one environment variable: WORKFLOWY_API_KEY. Set them in your MCP config before starting the server.

Docker, plus an MCP client such as Claude Code, Codex, Claude Desktop or Cursor.

workflowy is a local MCP server distributed as the oci package ghcr.io/mholzen/workflowy:0.8.1.

Run: claude mcp add workflowy -e WORKFLOWY_API_KEY=... -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/mholzen/workflowy:0.8.1

Run: codex mcp add workflowy --env WORKFLOWY_API_KEY=... -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/mholzen/workflowy:0.8.1

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