Manas

Item: Manas
Rating: 45
Author: M8ven

Enables interaction with a local knowledge repository via MCP, providing tools for capturing, indexing, and searching Markdown notes with Git version control and optional semantic search.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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You'll be asked for 4 credentials: MANAS_EMBEDDING_API_KEY, MANAS_MCP_TOKEN, MANAS_RERANKER_API_KEY, ZEROENTROPY_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configMANAS_BRAIN_REPOSITORY— All product environment variables use the MANAS_ prefix. Set MANAS_STATE to choose local state storage and (or --repo) to choose the knowledge repository.

configMANAS_DIAGNOSTICS

🔐 secretMANAS_EMBEDDING_API_KEY

configMANAS_MCP_SCOPES— serve starts a local MCP server. For loopback HTTP MCP, set a non-secret local token with MANAS_MCP_TOKEN and use to restrict access. Do not put credentials or local state inside the repository.

🔐 secretMANAS_MCP_TOKEN— serve starts a local MCP server. For loopback HTTP MCP, set a non-secret local token with and use MANAS_MCP_SCOPES to restrict access. Do not put credentials or local state inside the repository.

configMANAS_POSTGRES_URL

🔐 secretMANAS_RERANKER_API_KEY

🔐 secretZEROENTROPY_API_KEY

// full audit trail

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commit: 9797f6f84fc25466a036fa5ea5630098a0e3209a

code hash: 98c39544623274676afff30325ade74a056808cae9541ef812f1681095077243

verified: 7/29/2026, 8:59:24 AM

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