Samong MCP Server
A local-first knowledge base for the notes already in your repositories You solved it once and wrote it down. Six months later the note is still in the repo and you cannot find it. Point Samong at a project root and the .md files you would commit become searchable and linked - and readable by the AI tools you already work with. Plain Markdown, Obsidian-compatible ([[wikilink]] / [[wikilink|alias]]), no account, no…
People who work with full text search, knowledge base and local first and want it reachable from Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in Rust.
VERIFIED ACTIVE
LAST COMMIT 2026-09-14 · ★ 2 · #179 OF 208 MAINTAINED DOCUMENTATION · VERIFIED 2026-09-18
Apache-2.0 · Rust servers · how we verify → /methodology
01 · Install Samong
Claude Desktop
Settings → Extensions → Install, then select the https://github.com/waanvar/samong/releases/download/v0.6.0/samong-mcp.mcpb .mcpb bundle02 · 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 Claude Desktop extension (.mcpb bundle)
license Apache-2.0 - declared in the repository
registry namespace io.github.waanvar is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner
03 · What Samong can do
Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.
Latest releases
v0.6.0 · 2026-09-14
Release notes, an ARM Linux build, and the first numbers the search has ever · been given. · Added · A Linux ARM64 archive, samong-aarch64-linux.tar.gz. Raspberry Pi, the · instance types most clouds now price as the…
v0.5.0 · 2026-09-09
v0.4.1 · 2026-08-27
04 · Who maintains Samong
Samong is maintained by waanvar. It's the only MCP server we track from this author; the repo dates to Jul 2026.
05 · Facts
- repository
- github.com/waanvar/samong
- website
- https://samong.dev/
- category
- documentation - ranked #179 of 208 actively-maintained documentation servers as of 2026-09-18.
- release cadence
- 10+ releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-09-14)
- registry
- io.github.waanvar/samong (active, first published 2026-08-05 · 5 versions)
- packages
- mcpb:https://github.com/waanvar/samong/releases/download/v0.6.0/samong-mcp.mcpb
06 · Samong FAQ
What is Samong?
A local-first knowledge base for the notes already in your repositories You solved it once and wrote it down. Six months later the note is still in the repo and you cannot find it. Point Samong at a project root and the .md files you would commit become searchable and linked - and readable by the AI tools you already work with. Plain Markdown, Obsidian-compatible ([[wikilink]] / [[wikilink|alias]]), no account, no…
Is Samong still maintained?
Yes - as of 2026-09-18, its last commit was 2026-09-14 and it shipped 10+ releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.
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