Does Harbor have built-in AI?

No. Harbor has no built-in AI — and that’s a decision, not a gap.

Here’s the thinking. You likely already pay for ChatGPT, Claude, or something like them, and they are better than anything a notes company would bolt on. We also watched Evernote graft on a proprietary AI and lean on it to justify price increases. We’re not doing that: no AI assistant baked in, no “smart” features running over your notes, no AI line item hiding in your bill.

What Harbor has instead is openness:

• a documented REST API (with a full OpenAPI spec),
• a real command-line client, the harbor CLI,
• an agent skill your AI coding assistant can install, and
• at launch, a first-class MCP server.

Together they mean the AI you already have can create, edit, organize, format, and search your notes — working for you, in your tools, on your terms. The how-to is in How do I connect ChatGPT or Claude to Harbor?

Two things this design means in practice:

1. Nothing reads your notes by default. AI only touches your library when you connect one and hand it a token you control.
2. Encrypted notes are never reachable — by any AI, tool, or API. Our servers can’t read them, so nothing downstream can either.

There is one exception, and you should hear it from us rather than find it: a Suggest title button on an untitled note, which reads that one note and proposes a name for it. It runs only when you press it, only on the note you’re looking at, and never on an encrypted one. A button you choose to press is a different animal from an assistant reading your library in the background — but it is AI, so we’re not going to pretend otherwise.

The full story is at Bring Your Own AI.