A side-by-side look at the Duplicacy MCP and Session Watcher MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Duplicacy MCP for monitoring work as a local process; choose Session Watcher for monitoring as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
DUPLICACY_EXPORTER_URL.start_watcher, stop_watcher, watcher_status.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Monitoring | Monitoring |
| Quality signal | 52/100 · Good | 61/100 · Good |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | Not declared | No auth required |
| Pricing | Not declared | Free |
| Required env vars | DUPLICACY_EXPORTER_URL | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 2 | 5 |
| Directory activity | 1 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 3 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | Not listed | 12 |
| Full listing | View Duplicacy MCP | View Session Watcher |
No tool names declared yet. Check the project README from the listing page.
start_watcherStart (or reuse) the dashboard server; returns its URLstop_watcherStop the managed serverwatcher_statusReport whether the server is running and its URLrotate_sessionRotate to a new session IDget_bucket_summaryReturn current context bucket structure (files, skills, tools) with metricsget_turn_skeletonRender the turns of the capture epoch, one block per turn, as the slots a note can fillsubmit_turn_notesReturn the producing session's notes through the slots the skeleton definesprepare_handoffPersist selected paths + summary as a handoff package; returns a semantic tokenload_handoffLoad a handoff by token, free-text search, or auto-match for the current projectturn_pagePage deeper into the history, newest first; a returned cursor proves more history remains, while its absence does not prove none doesturn_searchFind a literal that occurs verbatim in the transcripts — an identifier, a path, a quoted phraseturn_locateFind which turn ranges mention a remembered term, when the original wording is unknownPaste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
{
"mcpServers": {
"geiserx-duplicacy-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"duplicacy-mcp"
],
"env": {
"DUPLICACY_EXPORTER_URL": "YOUR_DUPLICACY_EXPORTER_URL_HERE"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"nomadop-session-watcher": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@nomadop/session-watcher"
]
}
}
}