# kansei-link/kansei-mcp-server [Health: Active]

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**Repository:** https://github.com/kansei-link/kansei-mcp-server  
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**Directory Page:** https://allmcps.com/mcp/kansei-link-kansei-mcp-server

## Description
Local-first MCP navigator with verified data on 11,000+ SaaS services, 200 workflow recipes, and 89-97% token savings vs web search.

## Tools
Capabilities this server exposes over MCP:

- **search_services** — Before attempting ANY SaaS API integration, call this tool. Agents waste 3-5x more tokens on trial-and-error with stale training data — this returns current, structured service evaluations (connection method, guides, known pitfalls) so you succeed on the first try. If the user mentions ANY SaaS service (freee, SmartHR, kintone, Slack, Notion, MoneyForward...) or says 'use kanseilink', always call this. Covers 900+ services with growing agent-readiness signals. Strongest in Japanese SaaS with growing global coverage.
- **lookup** — Get everything you need about a service before using it. Default: tips (auth setup, pitfalls, workarounds). Add detail: true for full connection guide, insights: true for usage data. Pass goal: 'workflow description' to find multi-service recipes. This is step 2 of the standard KanseiLink flow: search_services → lookup → (execute) → report.
- **report** — Record what happened after using a service: success/failure outcome, feedback, API change events, or qualitative experience. Data is saved to this installation's LOCAL database only (improves local recovery hints and stats) — nothing is sent to KanseiLink unless you separately opt in to sharing. PII is auto-masked before storage. This is step 4 of the standard flow: search_services → lookup → (execute) → report.

## Claude Desktop Quick Installation
Install path detected from listing signals. Uses `npx` (confidence: high):

```json
"mcpServers": {
  "kansei-mcp-server": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": ["-y","@kansei-link/mcp-server"]
  }
}
```

## Documentation

## What kansei-link/kansei-mcp-server does

KanseiLink provides structured integration research for AI agents working with SaaS APIs and MCP services. The catalogue covers more than 11,000 services across many categories, along with roughly 200 multi-service workflow recipes and API guidance covering authentication, endpoints, rate limits, pitfalls, and workarounds.

The local npm package includes a public copy of the catalogue and builds a SQLite database on the user's machine. Searching and looking up services can therefore work without an account, a hosted-server dependency, or API calls. A hosted HTTP option provides access to the service through a URL and keeps the catalogue current.

## How it works

The intended sequence is:

1. Search for a service or integration goal with `search_services`.
2. Use `lookup` to retrieve setup guidance, pitfalls, workarounds, or a multi-service recipe.
3. Execute the integration with the relevant external tool or API.
4. Call `report` with the outcome and any useful feedback.

`report` stores results in the installation's local database. PII is masked before storage. Local usage measurement is also available through installed hooks, which parse session transcripts and write token and call statistics under `~/.kansei-link/usage/`.

## Setup and configuration

For a hosted connection, add `https://mcp.kansei-link.com/mcp` as an MCP server URL. Claude Code can add it with:

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http kansei-link https://mcp.kansei-link.com/mcp
```

The local package can be run through npm and configured as a standard stdio MCP server:

```bash
claude mcp add -s user kansei-link -- npx -y @kansei-link/mcp-server
```

The corresponding client configuration uses `npx` as the command and `-y`, `@kansei-link/mcp-server` as its arguments. The local mode uses the bundled public catalogue and sends no data. The hosted endpoint requires no key or sign-up.

Optional utilities install session-measurement hooks, generate a monthly Wrapped report, install a Claude Code skill for automatic invocation, and manage the optional reporting hook. Central reporting is off by default; enabling it permits limited pseudonymous event or aggregate transmission, while local measurement remains on the machine. Measurement can be disabled with `KANSEI_USAGE_HOOK=off`.

## Tools and capabilities

- `search_services` finds services by name or intent and returns structured integration evaluations, connection methods, guides, and agent-readiness signals.
- `lookup` returns service tips by default, with optional full connection details, usage insights, or workflow recipes selected through its parameters.
- `report` records success or failure, feedback, API changes, and qualitative integration results for local recovery hints and statistics.
- The catalogue includes service cards, recipes, API guides, and a changelog copy for local lookup.
- Optional Wrapped reports distinguish measured token and call data from estimated avoided research costs and identify failed calls, retry chains, and time spent stuck.

## Limitations and notes

The local catalogue is a public copy rather than the complete hosted dataset. Internal scores, probe results, agent voices, and raw registry data remain hosted; a missed lookup points to the service site and an `ask` path. Local data also does not automatically provide the credentials or execution tools needed to call a third-party API.

The optional sharing features have separate consent controls. The reporting hook sends only a fixed set of pseudonymous fields when enabled, such as service slug, tool name, outcome, and error category; prompts, tool arguments and results, customer or record names, API keys, file paths, and free text are excluded.

_Full upstream README: https://allmcps.com/mcp/kansei-link-kansei-mcp-server/readme_