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mcp-chatbot
by mctrinh
everything
by modelcontextprotocol
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mcp-chatbot · Summary

MCP-powered research assistant using Claude 3 for literature search and summarization.

everything · Summary

Official MCP test server exercising all protocol features for client builders.

mcp-chatbot · Use cases

  • Academic literature review and research
  • Engineering research paper summarization
  • Information extraction from technical papers

everything · Use cases

  • Testing MCP client implementations against all protocol features
  • Learning MCP protocol capabilities through a reference server
  • Validating client compatibility with different transport methods

mcp-chatbot · Install

# Option 1: Using uv (recommended)
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
uv pip install -e .

# Option 2: Using pip
pip install -e .

# Run the research server
python research_server.py

# In a new terminal, launch the chatbot CLI
mcp-chatbot run

To integrate with Claude Desktop, add the following to your config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-chatbot": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "mcp_chatbot.cli"],
      "env": {
        "ANTHROPIC_MODEL": "claude-3-opus-20240229"
      }
    }
  }
}

everything · Install

NPX (recommended)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
    }
  }
}

On Windows, use cmd /c:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "cmd",
      "args": ["/c", "npx", "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
    }
  }
}

Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "mcp/everything"]
    }
  }
}

Global install

npm install -g @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything@latest
npx @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything
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