🎞️ VibeTape MCP Server

Record the vibe of your build — A revolutionary Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that captures key development moments, creates actionable RETEX cards, and provides context handoff between AI sessions to eliminate knowledge loss.

🚀 What is VibeTape?

VibeTape transforms your development workflow into a proactive context management system. Beyond capturing moments, it provides intelligent context handoff between sessions, automatic denoising of trivial entries, and cross-session continuity that works with any MCP-compatible AI client.

Perfect for:

• 🎯 Solo developers who want to remember past solutions
• 👥 Teams who need shared knowledge and context
• 🔄 Consultants who work across multiple similar projects
• 📚 Technical leads building institutional knowledge

✨ Key Features

🚀 Context Handoff System (NEW v0.3.0)

• Transition cards — Generate compact context summaries (350 tokens)
• Smart ranking — Intelligent moment prioritization by recency, type, and impact
• Cross-session continuity — Never lose context between AI sessions
• Proactive suggestions — Auto-detect when context window is saturating

🧹 Intelligent Denoising (NEW v0.3.0)

• Noise filtering — Auto-detect and filter trivial moments
• Duplicate merging — Consolidate similar entries intelligently
• Signal scoring — Quality metrics for moment relevance (0-1 scale)
• Cooldown detection — Prevent spam from repetitive actions

🎯 Smart Moment Capture

• Wins, fails, decisions, notes — capture what matters
• Git context — automatic branch, commit, and diff tracking
• Zero overhead — secure, read-only project file access

🔍 Intelligent Search

• Semantic search with OpenAI embeddings (TF-IDF fallback)
• Advanced filtering by tags, dates, types, and regex
• Relation mapping — link related moments (causes, solves, relates)

🧠 AI-Powered Insights

• RETEX cards — AI-generated prescriptive rules from your experiences
• Pattern detection — find recurring issues automatically
• Statistics dashboard — track your development patterns

👥 Team Collaboration

• Team Vault — optional shared state via Git
• Comments — collaborative annotations on moments
• Export tools — JSON and Markdown for documentation

🏃‍♂️ Quick Start

1. Install

git clone https://github.com/sambaleuk/Vibetape-MCP-Server.git
cd Vibetape-MCP-Server
npm install
npm run build

2. Configure Your AI Client

VibeTape works with any MCP-compatible AI client:

🤖 Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vibetape": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/Vibetape-MCP-Server/dist/server.js"],
      "cwd": "/absolute/path/to/Vibetape-MCP-Server",
      "env": {
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "your-openai-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

💻 Cursor IDE

Add to your ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "vibetape": {
    "command": "node",
    "args": ["--loader", "ts-node/esm", "src/server.ts"],
    "cwd": "/absolute/path/to/Vibetape-MCP-Server",
    "env": {
      "OPENAI_API_KEY": "your-openai-key-here"
    }
  }
}

🌟 Gemini CLI

# Install MCP support for Gemini CLI
pip install mcp-client

# Configure VibeTape
gemini-cli config add-mcp vibetape \
  --command "node" \
  --args "/absolute/path/to/Vibetape-MCP-Server/dist/server.js" \
  --env OPENAI_API_KEY=your-key-here

🔧 Continue.dev

Add to your .continue/config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vibetape": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/Vibetape-MCP-Server/dist/server.js"],
      "env": {
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "your-openai-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

⚡ Custom MCP Clients

VibeTape implements the full MCP specification and works with any compliant client:

• GitHub Copilot Chat (via MCP extensions)
• Custom AI assistants built with MCP SDK
• Enterprise AI platforms supporting MCP protocol

3. Start Using

Restart your AI client and start capturing moments:

Hey AI, mark this moment: "Successfully implemented Redis caching - reduced API response time from 200ms to 50ms" as a win with tags: api, performance, redis

4. Try Context Handoff (v0.3.0)

Experience the revolutionary context continuity:

# When your context window is getting full
AI: "I notice we're approaching context limits. Should I generate a transition card?"

# Generate handoff
generate_context_handoff with budgetTokens: 350

# Later, in a different AI client or session
AI: "Let me read your previous context..."
→ Instantly resume with full project state, decisions, and next steps

🛠️ Available Tools

🚀 Context Handoff Tools (NEW v0.3.0)

• generate_context_handoff — Create compact transition cards (350 tokens)
• suggest_transition_card — Auto-suggest handoff when context saturates
• sweep_noise — Intelligent denoising of trivial/duplicate moments

Core Tools

• mark_moment — Capture key development moments
• search_moments — Find similar past experiences
• list_moments — Browse recent captures
• make_retex — Generate AI prescriptive cards
• export_timeline — Day-by-day development timeline

Advanced Tools (v0.2+)

• link_moments — Create relationships between moments
• comment_moment — Add collaborative annotations
• search_moments_advanced — Multi-criteria search
• stats_overview — Development pattern analytics
• recurrent_patterns — Automatic issue pattern detection
• export_json/md — Full state exports

📋 Resources

🚀 Context Handoff Resources (NEW v0.3.0)

• handoff://{id} — Transition card for cross-session continuity (Markdown)

Core Resources

• moment://{id} — Individual moment details (JSON)
• timeline://{day} — Daily timeline (Markdown)
• retex://{id} — AI-generated prescriptive card (JSON)
• graph://{id} — Moment relationship graph (JSON)
• export://json?{q} — Full export (JSON)
• export://md?{q} — Full export (Markdown)

🔧 Configuration

Environment Variables

# Optional: OpenAI for semantic search and RETEX generation
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-your-key-here

# Optional: Custom storage location (default: ~/.vibetape)
VIBETAPE_HOME=~/.vibetape

# Optional: Team collaboration directory
VIBETAPE_TEAM_DIR=~/your-team-repo

Works Without OpenAI

VibeTape gracefully degrades without OpenAI:

• ✅ TF-IDF semantic search (good for most cases)
• ❌ No AI-generated RETEX cards

👥 Team Collaboration

Enable team sharing by setting VIBETAPE_TEAM_DIR to a Git repository:

1. Set VIBETAPE_TEAM_DIR=~/your-team-repo in your environment
2. VibeTape creates team_state.json in that directory
3. Commit and push the file to share with your team
4. Team members get shared moments, relations, and comments

🔒 Security & Privacy

VibeTape is designed with security in mind:

• 🔐 Local storage only — Data stays in ~/.vibetape/ by default
• 👀 Read-only project access — Never modifies your code
• 🚫 No shell execution — Only safe Git read operations
• 🌐 Minimal network — Only OpenAI API (optional)
• 🔑 Environment variables — API keys never hardcoded

📊 Use Cases

🚀 Context Handoff (NEW v0.3.0)

# End of day in Claude Desktop
Generate handoff → Get compact transition card

# Next morning in Cursor IDE  
Read handoff://{id} → Instantly resume with full context
→ Never lose momentum between sessions

Solo Development

Mark moment: "Fixed memory leak in React component by moving effect cleanup"
Search: "memory leak React"
→ Instantly find your past solution

Team Knowledge Sharing

Link moments: "Timeout error" solves "API performance issue"  
Comment: "This also works for the user service endpoints"
→ Build institutional knowledge

Pattern Recognition

Run stats_overview → See you have 15 "timeout" related fails this month
Run recurrent_patterns → Discover common root causes
→ Proactively fix systemic issues

Documentation Generation

Export timeline for sprint retrospective
Generate RETEX cards for post-mortem
→ Turn experience into actionable documentation

🧹 Intelligent Denoising (NEW v0.3.0)

Run sweep_noise → Auto-filter trivial moments
Signal scoring → Focus on high-value entries
→ Maintain clean, actionable development history

🏗️ Architecture

VibeTape follows MCP (Model Context Protocol) standards and works with any MCP-compatible AI client:

┌─────────────────┐    ┌─────────────────┐    ┌─────────────────┐
│  Any MCP Client │◄──►│  VibeTape MCP   │◄──►│  Local Storage  │
│ Claude/Cursor/  │    │     Server      │    │   ~/.vibetape   │
│ Gemini/Custom   │    │    (v0.3.0)     │    │ + Team Vault    │
└─────────────────┘    └─────────────────┘    └─────────────────┘
                               │
                               ▼
                      ┌─────────────────┐
                      │   OpenAI API    │
                      │   (optional)    │
                      └─────────────────┘

🚀 Context Handoff Flow (v0.3.0)

Session A (Claude)        VibeTape           Session B (Cursor)
     │                       │                       │
     ├─► generate_handoff ───┤                       │
     │   (350 tokens)        │                       │
     │                       ├─► handoff://{id}      │
     │                       │                       │
     │                       │   ◄─── read handoff ─┤
     │                       │                       │
     │                       └─► Full context ──────►│

📈 Roadmap

🎯 Next Release (v0.4.0)

• Enhanced handoff templates — Customizable transition card formats
• Multi-session analytics — Cross-client usage patterns
• Smart moment auto-capture — Git hook integration with denoising

🚀 Future Features

• SQLite backend — Better performance for large datasets
• Web dashboard — Visual relationship graphs and analytics
• Slack/Discord integration — Share moments with team chat
• VS Code extension — Native IDE integration
• Export integrations — Notion, Obsidian, etc.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! VibeTape is built for the developer community.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Built with Model Context Protocol (MCP) by Anthropic
• Inspired by the need for better developer knowledge management
• Thanks to the open source community for amazing tools and libraries

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