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io.github.KuvopLLC/better-bear

better-bear

Is the io.github.KuvopLLC/better-bear MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-10-26.

MCP server for Bear notes — read, search, create, edit, tag, and manage notes via CloudKit

alive probed 2026-11-14 · unchanged since 2026-10-26

35tools
7.1ktokens in Claude Opus 5.5
3.5 %of Claude's 200k window
2.8×the median server
342 msto initialize
10 msto list tools
Run it
npx -y better-bear@0.4.26 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
Host
npmjs.com
Reports itself as
better-bear 0.4.26
Capabilities
tools
Instructions
none
Of a 1M window
0.7 % of a 1M context window
Count
7.1k tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-10-26. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 7.4k. The o200k_base estimate is 4.1k. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
Repository
https://github.com/KuvopLLC/better-bear
Registry
active, updated 2026-04-23 · registry entry
Changes
2 recorded, reachable in 2 of them. A row is added when the result, the tool count or the cost changes.

Most expensive tools

The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.74×.

Tool≈ Claude tokenso200k estimateShare of this server
bear_edit_note4592646 %
bear_create_note4212426 %
bear_context_triage4042326 %
bear_list_notes3992296 %
bear_attach_file3622085 %

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History

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ProbedResultInitToolsClaudeo200k
2026-10-26 07:02alive315 ms357.1k4.1k
2026-10-19 06:52alive342 ms354.1k

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