Can Claude / ChatGPT / Cursor use Sourdough Tracker directly?

Yes, via the MCP server. It's a stdio JSON-RPC server that wires into Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-aware client in five lines of config. The list of tools matches your data model 1:1 - whatever a CRUD type exposes in the UI is exposed identically to the agent.

Do agent calls share the same auth + access controls?

Yes. The MCP server authenticates with the same JWT or PAT a human session uses. Sharing rules, org membership, rate limits, suspicion bans - all of it applies. There's no "agent backdoor" that bypasses the access matrix.

Is there an audit trail for agent actions?

Yes. Every mutation goes through the same audit-log path as a UI click. The transport (UI / API / CLI / MCP) is recorded as channel metadata so you can filter "what did the agent do this hour" from your account history.

Can I rate-limit an agent separately from a human?

Per-token rate limits apply, so you can issue an agent its own PAT and cap it independently. The shared user-level bucket also caps total throughput, so a runaway loop can't drain your whole account. The CLI's auto-update channel marker means you can also see in audit which version is calling.

Does the MCP / API surface cost extra?

No. Same plan, same surface. We don't paywall the agent - it's the same product, the same schema, the same access gates. If a plan can do X in the UI, it can do X via MCP.

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Sourdough Tracker: the agent-friendly alternative to Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes

Same product, same surface for humans and AI agents. MCP server + CLI + drop-in clients in 15 languages.

Agentic alternative

Comparison

Notes

Finn GlasCo-Founder + Engineering

·February 9, 2026·

1 min read

Sourdough Tracker ships an MCP server you can wire into Claude Desktop or any MCP client in five lines. The same auth + access gates apply, the same audit log records every action, the same rate limits apply. Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes doesn't currently expose this surface - that's the gap.

At a glance

A free-form notes app can absolutely hold sourdough notes - I used Notion for two years before building this. The trade-off is the friction of structure: every entry needs to be hand-formatted, you can't filter feeds vs bakes without templating discipline, and 'show me every bake at 75% hydration' is a manual exercise. Sourdough Tracker trades the flexibility of free text for purpose-built fields - rise %, hydration, outcome rating, ambient temp - so the analysis happens by itself. If your bakes are weekly and you care about patterns, the structured version pays back fast.

Agent surface

What 'agent-friendly' actually means in practice

Sourdough Tracker ships an MCP server, a CLI, and drop-in clients in 15 languages. They're auto-generated from the same schema your UI uses; the auth, the access gates, the rate limits, the audit log all apply identically whether you're clicking buttons or calling the API. Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes doesn't currently expose this surface, which is the gap a serious agent integration trips over - the agent ends up scraping the UI through a browser, which is fragile, slow, and silently bypasses everything below.

Sourdough Tracker vs Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes: agent-readiness comparison

	Ours Sourdough Tracker	Theirs Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes
Free-form text	Body field
Per-feed structured fields
Filter feeds vs bakes		DIY
Photos inline with the entry
Per-starter share		Page-level only
EU-hosted, no AI training		Depends
Free tier

When to pick which

Pick Sourdough Tracker when

You want patterns over time without manual templating.

Sharing one starter (not the whole notebook) matters.

EU-hosted + no third-party AI ingest is a requirement.

Pick Notion / Obsidian / Apple Notes when

You already live in Notion / Obsidian and one more page is the path of least resistance.

You want maximum flexibility, even at the cost of structure.

Agentic-integration questions

What an agent-builder asks before wiring a tool into Claude / ChatGPT / Cursor.

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Written by

Finn Glas

Co-Founder + Engineering

Finn is one of the Co-Founders. He owns the engineering side, the infrastructure, and most of the late-night fixes that ship before anyone notices.

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