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Glean

Glean is an MCP server that adds tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. A self-hosted RSS reader and personal knowledge management tool. It has 875 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/leslieleung/glean-backend.

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Install Glean

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "glean": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/leslieleung/glean-backend"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio glean -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/leslieleung/glean-backend

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "glean": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/leslieleung/glean-backend"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "glean": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/leslieleung/glean-backend"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About Glean

A self-hosted RSS reader and personal knowledge management tool. Glean (拾灵) helps information-heavy consumers efficiently manage their reading through intelligent RSS aggregation.

  • rss
  • rss-reader
  • mcp
  • mcp-server

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How do I install the Glean MCP server?

Add the command docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/leslieleung/glean-backend to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Glean free?

The server is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Glean actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Sep 3, 2026. The latest release is v0.2.7, published Jun 28, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.