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open-ontologies
by fabio-rovai
filesystem
by modelcontextprotocol
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Knowledge GraphDeveloper ToolsAI / LLM Tools
File SystemDeveloper ToolsProductivity
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open-ontologies · Summary

AI-native ontology engine Rust MCP server with 43 tools for building, validating, and querying RDF/OWL ontologies using Oxigraph triple store.

filesystem · Summary

A feature-rich MCP server for filesystem operations with dynamic directory access control.

open-ontologies · Use cases

  • AI-assisted ontology development and knowledge modeling
  • Validation and reasoning over RDF/OWL knowledge graphs
  • Automated ontology generation from natural language descriptions

filesystem · Use cases

  • Enable AI models to read and write project files during development
  • Allow Claude or other MCP clients to browse and analyze codebases
  • Provide secure sandboxed access to specific directories for content generation

open-ontologies · Install

Installation

**Pre-built binaries:**

# macOS (Apple Silicon)
curl -LO https://github.com/fabio-rovai/open-ontologies/releases/latest/download/open-ontologies-aarch64-apple-darwin
chmod +x open-ontologies-aarch64-apple-darwin && mv open-ontologies-aarch64-apple-darwin /usr/local/bin/open-ontologies

# Linux (x86_64)
curl -LO https://github.com/fabio-rovai/open-ontologies/releases/latest/download/open-ontologies-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
chmod +x open-ontologies-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu && mv open-ontologies-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu /usr/local/bin/open-ontologies

**Connect to Claude Desktop:** Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "open-ontologies": {
      "command": "/path/to/open-ontologies",
      "args": ["serve"]
    }
  }
}

filesystem · Install

Installation

Using NPX

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",
        "/path/to/allowed/directory"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Using Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "--mount", "type=bind,src=/path/to/allowed/dir,dst=/projects/allowed/dir",
        "mcp/filesystem",
        "/projects"
      ]
    }
  }
}

VS Code Extension

Click the installation buttons in the README to install directly in VS Code.

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