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pydantic-rpc
by i2y
filesystem
by modelcontextprotocol
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Official
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Developer ToolsAI / LLM Tools
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LanguagePythonTypeScript
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pydantic-rpc · Summary

PydanticRPC rapidly exposes Pydantic models as gRPC, ConnectRPC, and MCP services without protobuf files.

filesystem · Summary

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

pydantic-rpc · Use cases

  • Building AI services with tools exposed through MCP protocol
  • Creating gRPC services without writing protobuf files
  • Developing HTTP-based RPC services using Connect-RPC

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

pydantic-rpc · Install

Install PydanticRPC via pip:

pip install pydantic-rpc

For CLI support:

pip install pydantic-rpc-cli

To use in Claude Desktop, add to config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pydantic-rpc": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "pydantic_rpc.server"],
      "env": {
        "PYDANTIC_RPC_PACKAGE_NAME": "my.services"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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