Yes. This community server is open source under the MIT license and free to run; it works within your Outline plan and the Outline API's limits.

Does it support remote/OAuth?

This community build is a local stdio server authenticated with an API key. Outline also offers an official remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP at https:// .getoutline.com/mcp with OAuth.

Outline MCP server

CommunityVortiago150Config last verified Jun 1, 2026

Connect an agent to your Outline wiki to search, read, write, and organize team documents.

Outline MCP is a community server that connects an AI agent to an Outline knowledge base — the open-source team wiki — through Outline's API. It is built for grounding work in what your team has already documented: the agent can search documents, walk collection structure, resolve a document by title, read and export content, and follow backlinks, then create, update, move, archive, restore, and delete documents as knowledge changes. Collection management, threaded comments, and an ask-AI tool that answers questions over your docs round out the read side, while batch tools let an agent create, update, move, archive, or delete many documents in one call.

It runs locally over stdio with uvx and authenticates with an Outline API key, pointing at Outline Cloud or a self-hosted instance via OUTLINE_API_URL. Outline also ships an official remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP at https://<your-subdomain>.getoutline.com/mcp with OAuth, which you can prefer when you want per-user browser authorization instead of a shared key.

Quick install

Copy-paste configs are provided for all 8 supported clients. Pick your client below.

Add to ~/.claude.json

~/.claude.json

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "outline": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-outline"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OUTLINE_API_KEY": "<OUTLINE_API_KEY>",
        "OUTLINE_API_URL": "<OUTLINE_API_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Or via CLI

bash

claude mcp add outline -- uvx mcp-outline

Step-by-step guides

Available tools

Tool	Description
search_documents	Searches documents by keyword across the workspace.
list_collections	Lists the collections in the workspace.
get_collection_structure	Returns the document hierarchy within a collection.
get_document_id_from_title	Resolves a document title to its ID.
read_document	Reads the content of a document.
export_document	Exports a document, for example as Markdown.
create_document	Creates a new document.
update_document	Updates an existing document's content or metadata.
move_document	Moves a document to a different collection or parent.
archive_document	Archives a document.
unarchive_document	Restores a document from the archive.
delete_document	Sends a document to the trash.
restore_document	Restores a document from the trash.
list_archived_documents	Lists the archived documents.
list_trash	Lists the documents currently in the trash.
add_comment	Adds a comment to a document.
list_document_comments	Lists the comments on a document.
get_comment	Retrieves a single comment.
get_document_backlinks	Lists documents that link to a given document.
create_collection	Creates a new collection.
update_collection	Updates a collection's properties.
delete_collection	Deletes a collection.
export_collection	Exports an entire collection.
export_all_collections	Exports all collections in the workspace.
batch_create_documents	Creates multiple documents in one call.
batch_update_documents	Updates multiple documents in one call.
batch_move_documents	Moves multiple documents in one call.
batch_archive_documents	Archives multiple documents in one call.
batch_delete_documents	Deletes multiple documents in one call.
ask_ai_about_documents	Asks a natural-language question answered over your Outline documents.

Required configuration

OUTLINE_API_KEYRequired
An Outline API key generated in your Outline settings.
OUTLINE_API_URLOptional
API base URL; defaults to https://app.getoutline.com/api. Set for self-hosted instances.

What you can do with it

Ground answers in team docs

An agent searches the wiki and returns sourced answers from existing documents instead of guessing or re-explaining a project.

Keep the wiki current

As decisions land, the agent creates or updates the right documents and files them into the correct collection automatically.

FAQ

Is it free?: Yes. This community server is open source under the MIT license and free to run; it works within your Outline plan and the Outline API's limits.
Does it support remote/OAuth?: This community build is a local stdio server authenticated with an API key. Outline also offers an official remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP at https://<your-subdomain>.getoutline.com/mcp with OAuth.

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