# Use in Claude Code
We are very excited to write this document about Claude Code with Stata-MCP. At my daily research, Claude Code is one of the tools I use most often.
If you have not installed it, you can visit [Claude Code](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/quickstart) to install it.
> Requirements:
> - [Stata](https://www.stata.com) 17+
> - [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/) or python 3.11+
> - Claude Code
## Quickly Start
First, check whether Stata-MCP is compatible with your device by verifying each requirement.
```bash
uvx stata-mcp --usable
```
Then, create your project. We suggest creating all the projects in the same directory. For example, we use `~/Documents/StataProjects` as the project directory.
```bash
cd ~/Documents/StataProjects
claude mcp add stata-mcp --env STATA_MCP_CWD=$(pwd) --scope project -- uvx --directory $(pwd) stata-mcp
```
> Advice: Please make sure the directory without any special characters like whitespace, emoji or Chinese characters.
Now the project has been created successfully.
The project structure is as follows:
```text
my_first_project/ # Project directory
├── stata-mcp-folder/ # All the files generated by Stata-MCP
│ ├── stata-mcp-dofile/ # do-files
│ ├── stata-mcp-log/ # log files
│ ├── stata-mcp-result/ # Some command (like `outreg2`) results saved here
│ └── stata-mcp-tmp/ # Temporary files, like data info description
│ └── .gitignore # git ignore file
└── CLAUDE.md # The global instructions to limit the project
```
