Glean▌
by gleanwork
Enhance enterprise asset management with Glean’s knowledge management platform for advanced enterprise search and people
Integrates with Glean's enterprise knowledge platform to provide company search, people profile lookup, and AI assistant capabilities directly within your workflow.
best for
- / Enterprise employees needing quick access to company information
- / Teams wanting to integrate organizational knowledge into workflows
- / Developers building internal tools with company data access
capabilities
- / Search company documents and data
- / Look up employee profiles and contact information
- / Chat with AI assistant trained on company knowledge
- / Read specific documents by ID or URL
what it does
Connects to your company's Glean enterprise knowledge platform to search documents, find people, and chat with AI assistant that knows your organization's data.
about
Glean is an official MCP server published by gleanwork that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Enhance enterprise asset management with Glean’s knowledge management platform for advanced enterprise search and people It is categorized under developer tools. This server exposes 4 tools that AI clients can invoke during conversations and coding sessions.
how to install
You can install Glean in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport.
license
MIT
Glean is released under the MIT license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.
readme
Glean Local MCP Server Monorepo
This monorepo contains packages for Glean's local MCP server. For more details see the READMEs of the individual packages.
- @gleanwork/configure-mcp-server for configuring the local MCP server with popular MCP clients.
- @gleanwork/local-mcp-server on running the local MCP server.
The local MCP server can be run via npx or Docker. See the @gleanwork/local-mcp-server README for Docker deployment instructions.
Contributing
Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup and guidelines.
License
MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details
Support
- Documentation: docs.glean.com
- Issues: GitHub Issues
- Email: support@glean.com
FAQ
- What is the Glean MCP server?
- Glean is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server profile on explainx.ai. MCP lets AI hosts (e.g. Claude Desktop, Cursor) call tools and resources through a standard interface; this page summarizes categories, install hints, and community ratings.
- How do MCP servers relate to agent skills?
- Skills are reusable instruction packages (often SKILL.md); MCP servers expose live capabilities. Teams frequently combine both—skills for workflows, MCP for APIs and data. See explainx.ai/skills and explainx.ai/mcp-servers for parallel directories.
- How are reviews shown for Glean?
- This profile displays 10 aggregated ratings (sample rows for discoverability plus signed-in user reviews). Average score is about 4.5 out of 5—verify behavior in your own environment before production use.
Ratings
4.5★★★★★10 reviews- ★★★★★Shikha Mishra· Oct 10, 2024
Glean is among the better-indexed MCP projects we tried; the explainx.ai summary tracks the official description.
- ★★★★★Piyush G· Sep 9, 2024
We evaluated Glean against two servers with overlapping tools; this profile had the clearer scope statement.
- ★★★★★Chaitanya Patil· Aug 8, 2024
Useful MCP listing: Glean is the kind of server we cite when onboarding engineers to host + tool permissions.
- ★★★★★Sakshi Patil· Jul 7, 2024
Glean reduced integration guesswork — categories and install configs on the listing matched the upstream repo.
- ★★★★★Ganesh Mohane· Jun 6, 2024
I recommend Glean for teams standardizing on MCP; the explainx.ai page compares cleanly with sibling servers.
- ★★★★★Oshnikdeep· May 5, 2024
Strong directory entry: Glean surfaces stars and publisher context so we could sanity-check maintenance before adopting.
- ★★★★★Dhruvi Jain· Apr 4, 2024
Glean has been reliable for tool-calling workflows; the MCP profile page is a good permalink for internal docs.
- ★★★★★Rahul Santra· Mar 3, 2024
According to our notes, Glean benefits from clear Model Context Protocol framing — fewer ambiguous “AI plugin” claims.
- ★★★★★Pratham Ware· Feb 2, 2024
We wired Glean into a staging workspace; the listing’s GitHub and npm pointers saved time versus hunting across READMEs.
- ★★★★★Yash Thakker· Jan 1, 2024
Glean is a well-scoped MCP server in the explainx.ai directory — install snippets and categories matched our Claude Code setup.