Enables installing and configuring MCP servers from GitHub repositories, with support for authentication via personal access tokens
Provides configuration support for the MCP installer on macOS systems
Provides installation of MCP servers published as npm packages
Supports installation of MCP servers published as Python packages on PyPI
Mentioned as a potential MCP server that can be installed via this installer
mcp-installer - A MCP Server to install MCP Servers
This server is a server that installs other MCP servers for you. Install it, and you can ask Claude to install MCP servers hosted in npm or PyPi for you. Requires npx
and uv
to be installed for node and Python servers respectively.
How to install:
Put this into your claude_desktop_config.json
(either at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude
on macOS or C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Roaming\Claude
on Windows):
Example prompts
Hey Claude, install the MCP server named mcp-server-fetch
Hey Claude, install the @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem package as an MCP server. Use ['/Users/anibetts/Desktop'] for the arguments
Hi Claude, please install the MCP server at /Users/anibetts/code/mcp-youtube, I'm too lazy to do it myself.
Install the server @modelcontextprotocol/server-github. Set the environment variable GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN to '1234567890'
A meta-server that allows Claude to install other MCP servers from npm or PyPi, enabling easy expansion of Claude's capabilities with external tools.
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