Scrybe

Scrybe

MCP-native cross-platform Markdown editor. The document is the conversation: the desktop app, the CLI, and AI agents all drive the same live document through one tool contract.

Install

brew install --cask hartsock/scrybe/scrybe    # macOS app + matching CLI
npm install -g scrybe-ai                      # CLI via npm
pip install scrybe.ai                         # Python toolkit
cargo install scrybe-cli scrybe-mcp-server    # from source via crates.io

First Homebrew install (Homebrew 6+): a cask from a third-party tap must be trusted once. If you hit "Refusing to load cask from untrusted tap", run brew trust hartsock/scrybe (or the exact command Homebrew prints) and re-run the install.

Windows: choco install scrybe (package staged each release; community-feed publication pending — see #2). All installers are on GitHub Releases: dmg · setup.exe/msi · AppImage · deb · rpm.

For a direct macOS DMG install, drag Scrybe into Applications, open it, then choose Scrybe → Install or Repair 'scrybe' Command…. The operation is idempotent and conflict-safe: it repairs broken Scrybe links but never overwrites an unrelated file. Remove 'scrybe' Command… removes only the managed link.

All packages version in lock-step: one release, one version. The brew tap and choco feed are catching up to automation — they may lag a release until #1 / #2 land their publish secrets.

Quick start

scrybe file.md          # open a file in the GUI
scrybe ./               # open a directory
scrybe --help           # everything the CLI can do

# Connect to Claude Code as an MCP server
claude mcp add scrybe -- scrybe-mcp-server stdio

Every document and editor control has an agent equivalent and vice versa. Host installation controls are intentionally local-only: changing PATH is machine administration, not document editing. The full MCP tool surface — names, schemas, semantics — is frozen per release in docs/mcp-contract-0.6.json; the CLI↔GUI socket contract lives in docs/rpc-contract-0.6.md. Agent workflow guide: AGENTS.md.

Development

git clone https://github.com/hartsock/scrybe && cd scrybe
just check              # full lint + test suite
just dev                # Tauri dev server
just install            # app + toolkit + ~/.local/bin/scrybe
just repair-install     # safely re-run the idempotent installer
just uninstall          # remove development-install artifacts only

Architecture, crate map, and conventions: CLAUDE.md. Direction: ROADMAP.md — GitHub issues are the ground truth.

License

Apache-2.0. Use it, build on it, ship it. Your documents stay plain text and belong to you.

The desktop app bundles statically link a few MPL-2.0 crates from its GUI stack; the required notices ship with the app and live in THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.md + LICENSE-MPL-2.0. The Python wheels and crates.io packages contain no MPL code.