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How it works

Volante is a desktop app that runs a single MCP endpoint on your computer.

  1. Add your servers once. Webflow, GitHub, a browser, your files, anything that speaks MCP.

  2. Connect your AI apps once. Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code and others, in one click each.

  3. Ask your AI. Every app can now use every server, with the permissions you choose, and every request shows up in Volante's activity log.

Related MCP server: mcp-store

Features

  • Any MCP server. Local commands, remote Streamable HTTP or SSE servers. Servers that use OAuth sign in through your browser.

  • Several Webflow workspaces. Add each workspace by name; each gets its own sign-in, its own tool prefix and its own permissions, so your AI always knows which workspace it is working in.

  • Permissions per server. Allow everything, Look only, No deleting or Choose tools, with a switch per tool on top. Tools are tagged as reads, changes or deletes, from the server's own annotations or, failing that, from the tool name.

  • No name clashes. Tools are prefixed per server (webflow_acme__list_sites, github__create_issue).

  • One-click connect for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Gemini CLI and Codex, plus import of the servers those apps already have. Each app's config file is backed up (*.volante.bak) before its first edit.

  • Activity log of every request: arguments, result, duration and which app asked.

  • Stays out of the way. Lives in the system tray or menu bar, can start when you sign in, and the stdio bridge starts it on demand for apps that launch MCP servers as processes.

Install

Grab the installer for your system from the latest release.

System

File

Windows 10 / 11

Volante-Setup-<version>.exe

macOS, Apple Silicon (M1 and later)

Volante-<version>-arm64.dmg

macOS, Intel

Volante-<version>-x64.dmg

The installers aren't code-signed yet, so the first launch needs one extra step:

  • Windows: if SmartScreen appears, choose More info → Run anyway.

  • macOS: open the app once, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway next to the message about Volante.

Security

  • Listens on 127.0.0.1 only, behind a bearer token, and rejects requests with a foreign Host or Origin header.

  • Environment variables, headers and OAuth tokens are encrypted at rest by the operating system (DPAPI on Windows, the Keychain on macOS).

  • Nothing is sent anywhere except to the MCP servers you add.

How apps connect

App

Transport

Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Gemini CLI

Streamable HTTP to http://127.0.0.1:47900/mcp with Authorization: Bearer <token>

Claude Desktop, Codex

Volante's own executable in Node mode as a stdio bridge (out/main/bridge.js)

Build from source

Requires Node.js 22 or later.

npm install
npm run dev

Command

What it does

npm run dev

Run with live reload

npm run typecheck

Type-check the main process and the UI

npm run build

Bundle into out/

npm run dist

Build the Windows installer into release/

npm run dist:mac

Build the macOS installers into release/ (run on a Mac)

npm run icons

Re-render the app and tray icons

Pushing a tag like v1.0.0 builds both installers on GitHub Actions and attaches them to a draft release.

ROUTER_DATA_DIR=<folder> runs against a separate config folder, which is handy for testing. scripts/smoke-test.cjs checks a running instance end to end against scripts/fixture-server.cjs.

Credits

Built with Electron, React, the MCP TypeScript SDK and Iconoir icons.

Fonts: Inter Tight and JetBrains Mono, bundled under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (see src/renderer/src/fonts/).

License

MIT © BE Aesthetics

Maintenance

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