About Clearly
Clearly is a hosted workspace service that lets agents access documents, canvases, sheets, decks, projects, boards, and tickets. It offers both an MCP server and a terminal CLI for finding and working with workspace content.
Key features
- 01Browse workspace content
- 02Read and edit documents
- 03Search with grep and glob
- 04Create and delete workspace items
- 05Use the beehaven terminal CLI
Use cases
- 01Find a document across a workspace
- 02Edit or remove a workspace item
- 03Access projects and tickets from an agent
- 04Work with documents from a terminal
MCP support
Clearly is a hosted MCP server accessed over streamable HTTP, with OAuth 2.1 sign-in. Its typed tools support cataloging, reading, writing, editing, deleting, grep, and glob operations on workspace content.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://relay.clearly.sh/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http sh-clearly-clearly https://relay.clearly.sh/mcp{"mcpServers":{"sh-clearly-clearly":{"type":"http","url":"https://relay.clearly.sh/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"sh-clearly-clearly":{"type":"http","url":"https://relay.clearly.sh/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"sh-clearly-clearly":{"type":"http","url":"https://relay.clearly.sh/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"sh-clearly-clearly":{"serverUrl":"https://relay.clearly.sh/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project READMEClearly
Your workspace, addressable by agents. Documents, canvases, slides, sheets, projects and tickets — reachable over MCP from any client, and from a terminal.
- Website — clearly.sh
- MCP docs — clearly.sh/docs/mcp
- MCP Registry —
sh.clearly/clearly
This repository has no source code. It is the public home for issues, release notes and security reports. Clearly is a hosted service; the server runs on our infrastructure and the CLI is distributed as a build. If you are looking for a place to file a bug or ask what changed in a release, you are in the right place.
MCP
Clearly is an MCP server, not a plugin — your agent connects out to it. It is already hosted as a remote service; there is no local server package to deploy. On Glama, use Connect or copy the URL below and complete OAuth sign-in.
https://relay.clearly.sh/mcp
Authentication is OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration (RFC 7591), so most clients need nothing but the URL. Sign-in asks which workspace and which agent the connection acts as.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http clearly https://relay.clearly.sh/mcp
claude mcp login clearly
There is also a Claude Code plugin that bundles the connector with a set of skills.
Other clients
Any client that speaks streamable HTTP MCP can connect to the same URL. Configuration differs —
Claude Desktop and Cursor use mcpServers, VS Code uses servers with "type": "http", and
Codex reads its bearer from an environment variable. The
MCP docs carry a snippet per client.
Holding more than one workspace or agent at once
A client stores one credential per server entry, so two workspaces behind a single entry collide. Two extra path forms exist for that reason — each is a distinct credential key:
| URL | Means |
|---|---|
/mcp | the workspace and agent chosen at sign-in |
/mcp/w/<workspaceId> | pinned to one workspace |
/mcp/w/<workspaceId>/a/<agentId> | pinned to one workspace and one agent |
The agent segment is addressing, never authority — the server refuses it unless it matches the token's own agent.
Protocol
Streamable HTTP. Modern clients can use the stateless 2026-07-28 protocol; legacy clients can
negotiate 2025-06-18, 2025-03-26 or 2024-11-05 through initialize. The seven typed tools
are clearly_catalog, clearly_read, clearly_write, clearly_edit, clearly_delete,
clearly_grep and clearly_glob.
serverInfo.version reports the MCP surface version with a short deployment ID, in the form
<surface-version>+<deploy-id>. The surface version changes when the tool contract changes.
CLI
curl -fsSL https://clearly.sh/install.sh | sh
The installer writes beehaven to ~/.local/bin (override with BEEHAVEN_BIN_DIR).
Read it before you run it — install.sh is a plain shell script.
Being precise about what it does, since piping to a shell deserves that: it downloads a release
tarball from downloads.clearly.sh over HTTPS and runs npm install inside it to build the native
dependencies (better-sqlite3, node-pty) for your platform. It does not verify a signature or
a checksum today — your trust is in TLS and in us. Node 20+ is required and the script checks
for it first.
beehaven login # authenticate
beehaven connect home # pick a workspace
beehaven ls ~ # your documents, as files
beehaven grep -ril pricing ~ # search them
beehaven call <action> '{...}' # any workspace action
beehaven status # connection + auth state
beehaven --help lists the rest.
Reporting things
- Bugs and feature requests — open an issue.
- Security — please do not open a public issue. See SECURITY.md.
When filing an MCP issue, beehaven status and the output of the failing initialize are the two
most useful things to include. The server reports its build in serverInfo.version
(<surface-version>+<deploy-id>), which identifies the tool contract and deployed build you were
talking to.
Licence
MIT for the contents of this repository. The Clearly service itself is governed by its terms.
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