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aura
by mezmo
filesystem
by modelcontextprotocol
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AI / LLM ToolsDeveloper ToolsProductivity
File SystemDeveloper ToolsProductivity
LanguageRustTypeScript
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aura · Summary

A production-ready AI agent framework with MCP tool integration, RAG pipelines, and OpenAI-compatible API.

filesystem · Summary

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

aura · Use cases

  • Building multi-agent AI systems with specialized worker agents
  • Creating production-ready chat applications with MCP tool integration
  • Implementing RAG pipelines for knowledge-augmented AI assistants

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

aura · Install

Installation

  1. Install Rust:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
  1. Clone and configure:
git clone https://github.com/mezmo/aura
cd aura
cp examples/reference.toml config.toml
  1. Set required environment variables:
export OPENAI_API_KEY="your-api-key"
  1. Build:
cargo build --release
  1. Run the web server:
cargo run --bin aura-web-server

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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