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Project Brain for Claude Desktop

io.github.gentleelephant/project-brain

Read-only source search and retrieval across configured GitHub repositories

client:Claude Desktop transport:stdio runtime:oci

Install Project Brain in Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json · windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "project-brain": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/gentleelephant/project-brain:v2.0.3"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROJECT_BRAIN_REPO_LIST": "<PROJECT_BRAIN_REPO_LIST>",
        "PROJECT_BRAIN_STATE_DIR": "<PROJECT_BRAIN_STATE_DIR>",
        "PB_GITHUB_TOKEN": "<PB_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "PB_FETCH_TTL": "<PB_FETCH_TTL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config opens this file. Restart the app after saving. Claude Desktop docs

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