CLEO MCP Server

Every developer who has ever returned to a project after weeks away and found only ruins knows the wound CLEO was built to heal. The agents are powerful. But power without memory is chaos. Brilliance without continuity is waste. CLEO is the companion that remembers where you left off - the one who keeps the thread when life pulls you away. It runs locally over stdio via the published package.

People connecting coding agent tools to Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in TypeScript.

VERIFIED ACTIVE

LAST COMMIT 2026-09-17 · ★ 160 · #11 OF 229 MAINTAINED CODING AGENT · VERIFIED 2026-09-18

MIT · TypeScript servers · how we verify → /methodology

01 · Install CLEO MCP Server

Claude Code

claude mcp add kryptobaseddev-cleo -- npx -y @cleocode/cleo

Claude Desktop / Cursor / VS Code - add to config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kryptobaseddev-cleo": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cleocode/cleo"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Same JSON for Cursor. For VS Code, rename the top-level key from `mcpServers` to `servers`.

Using another client? Same JSON, different key

Claude Desktop · mcpServers

Cursor · mcpServers

VS Code · servers

Windsurf · mcpServers

Zed · context_servers

Cline · mcpServers

Roo Code · mcpServers

Continue · mcpServers

LibreChat · mcpServers

Gemini CLI · mcpServers

Codex CLI · mcp_servers

Full setup guides: every client.

02 · Evidence

Security posture

What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.

runs as local process (stdio) - runs on your machine with your user's permissions

license MIT - declared in the repository

npm package @cleocode/cleo - the @cleocode scope differs from the repo owner (kryptobaseddev); confirm it's the project's official package

registry namespace io.github.kryptobaseddev is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner

03 · What CLEO MCP Server can do

Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.

Latest releases

v2026.9.7 · 2026-09-17

v2026.9.6 was tagged and published but never became installable - @cleocode/cleo@2026.9.6 does not exist on npm. This release supersedes it and carries everything that release was meant to deliver. · Fixed…

v2026.9.6 · 2026-09-17

Fixed · and callsite-coverage: atoms now resolve against the repo under test. The gh#1365 fix shipped in v2026.9.5 threaded an execution root to four of the eleven arms of the validateAtom switch; pr: and…

v2026.9.5 · 2026-09-17

Fixed · Do not wrap a command that is already systemd-run; name the scope we do create; a harness that never started no longer reports as a red suite (gh#1396, gh#1397) _(provenance: T12221)_ · The evidence cache key…

04 · Who maintains CLEO MCP Server

CLEO MCP Server is maintained by kryptobaseddev. It's the only MCP server we track from this author; the repo dates to Dec 2025.

05 · Facts

repository
github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo
website
https://github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo
category
coding agent - ranked #11 of 229 actively-maintained coding agent servers as of 2026-09-18.
release cadence
10+ releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-09-17)
registry
io.github.kryptobaseddev/cleo-mcp-server (active, first published 2026-02-10 · 41 versions)
packages
npm:@cleocode/cleo

06 · CLEO MCP Server FAQ

What is CLEO MCP Server?

Every developer who has ever returned to a project after weeks away and found only ruins knows the wound CLEO was built to heal. The agents are powerful. But power without memory is chaos. Brilliance without continuity is waste. CLEO is the companion that remembers where you left off - the one who keeps the thread when life pulls you away. It runs locally over stdio via the published package.

Is CLEO MCP Server still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-09-18, its last commit was 2026-09-17 and it shipped 10+ releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

How do I install CLEO MCP Server?

Run `npx -y @cleocode/cleo`. You can also paste the ready-made client config above.

Does CLEO MCP Server run locally?

Yes - it's a stdio server: it runs on your machine (via npx) with your user's permissions. Your data stays local unless the server itself calls external APIs.

07 · Alternatives to CLEO MCP Server

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