brainllm

io.github.miisodev/brainllm

7/8 checks passed
Runs locally
4 secrets
★ 0 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-20
Health score 59

About brainllm

brainllm is an MCP server published by the GitHub account miisodev. Self-hosted memory for LLMs in TriliumNext, structured by the server and editable by you.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package brainllm at version 13.1.0.

It asks for 4 secrets: TRILIUM_ETAPI_TOKEN, TRILIUM_PASSWORD, BRAINLLM_OWNER_PASSWORD and BRAINLLM_OAUTH_SECRET. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

It also needs TRILIUM_BASE_URL set before it starts.

Version 13.1.0 was published on 20 October 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 7 pass, 1 warn, 0 fail, 1 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`TRILIUM_BASE_URL`	Yes	No	Base URL of the TriliumNext instance, e.g. http://localhost:8080
`TRILIUM_ETAPI_TOKEN`	No	Yes	ETAPI token. Required unless TRILIUM_PASSWORD is set. Create one in Trilium under Options → ETAPI.
`TRILIUM_PASSWORD`	No	Yes	Alternative to TRILIUM_ETAPI_TOKEN — BrainLLM mints a token on first start and caches it beside brainllm.json.
`BRAINLLM_MODE`	No	No	core (default) exposes the 45 brain-aware tools; full additionally exposes the 33 raw ETAPI tools.
`BRAINLLM_TZ`	No	No	IANA timezone used to stamp dated notes, e.g. Africa/Johannesburg. Defaults to the host timezone.
`BRAINLLM_OWNER_PASSWORD`	No	Yes	Enables the OAuth 2.1 / CIMD endpoints required by claude.ai and other hosted Claude surfaces. This is the password entered on the consent screen when authorizing a client.
`BRAINLLM_OAUTH_SECRET`	No	Yes	Optional 32+ character deployment secret for signing OAuth tokens; rotate it to invalidate old tokens.
`BRAINLLM_PUBLIC_URL`	No	No	Override for the public origin when a proxy rewrites Host. Must exactly match the URL entered in the client.
`BRAINLLM_ALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_HTTP`	No	No	Explicit trusted-network-only escape hatch for HTTP mode. Never enable on a public interface.
`BRAINLLM_TRUST_PROXY`	No	No	Trust forwarded host/protocol headers for OAuth discovery only when a trusted reverse proxy sets them.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/miisodev/BrainLLM
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Warn	Asks for 4 secrets: TRILIUM_ETAPI_TOKEN, TRILIUM_PASSWORD, BRAINLLM_OWNER_PASSWORD, BRAINLLM_OAUTH_SECRET
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account miisodev
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	brainllm@13.1.0 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 13 files in brainllm@13.1.0: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 13 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 59 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity10 / 40

0 GitHub stars, 593 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-28, last release 2026-10-29, 83 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

0 closed of 0 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks16 / 20

1 warning, each costing a fifth.

1 forks, 10 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

No Hacker News threads link to its source code.

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.miisodev/brainllm`
Publisher	GitHub account miisodev
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account miisodev. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	npm `brainllm` 13.1.0 (stdio)
Version	13.1.0
Published	2026-10-20
Last updated	2026-10-20
Source repository	https://github.com/miisodev/BrainLLM
Website	https://miisodev.github.io/BrainLLM/
Category	Productivity & notes (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brainllm": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "brainllm@13.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TRILIUM_BASE_URL": "<your value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

We did not run this server, so we don't know what it does when it runs. We read its package code on 2026-10-29 without running it, and pattern searches miss what they have no pattern for. Tool descriptions built at run time were not seen. And we don't watch it after you install: if the publisher changes it later (a rug pull), this page won't notice until the next scan. Treat a pass as "nothing found", not as "safe".

For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-miisodev-brainllm.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.