Zenitsu

Zenitsu is a local MCP server that lets AI assistants read and update your Zenitsu tasks, notes and daily journal on a Linux desktop.

What you can do

Read your Zenitsu tasks, notes and daily journal from the local app database and bring them into an AI conversation, under rules you set in the app's AI settings. Update those tasks and notes on your behalf, with the app preventing the AI from erasing your data. Support daily journaling and review routines when used through the Claude Code plugin, which adds daily-line and sunday-review commands. Optionally enforce that every task an AI adds has a priority, a type and a due date.

When to use it

Use it if you already run the Zenitsu task manager and notebook on Linux and want an AI assistant such as Claude, Codex, VS Code Copilot or Cursor to work with your tasks, notes and journal without leaving your machine.

Requirements

The Zenitsu app must be installed and opened once on a Linux desktop; the server runs as a local stdio process (zenitsu-mcp) bundled with the app. The database is expected at ~/.local/share/com.xernai.zenitsu/ unless the ZENITSU_DB environment variable points to zenitsu.sqlite elsewhere. With the AppImage, the AppImage path is used as the command with mcp as the first argument, or ZENITSU_APPIMAGE is set for the plugin. No authentication is declared.