MCP Development Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables Claude to manage software development projects, providing complete project context awareness and handling code execution through Docker environments.

Features

Core Infrastructure

• Project context management

• File system operations

• Template-based project creation

• Git integration

Requirements

• Python 3.12 or higher

• Docker

• Git

Related MCP server: MCP Python Toolbox

Installation

# Using pip
pip install mcp-dev-server

# Development installation
git clone https://github.com/your-org/mcp-dev-server.git
cd mcp-dev-server
pip install -e .

Configuration

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add to your Claude Desktop configuration file:

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dev": {
      "command": "mcp-dev-server",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

Usage

The server provides several MCP capabilities:

Resources

• Project structure and files

• Build status and artifacts

• Test results

• Docker container status

Tools

• Project initialization

• Build operations

• Test execution

• Docker commands

Prompts

• Project analysis

• Development suggestions

• Error diagnosis

Development

Setting up development environment

# Create virtual environment
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate

# Install dependencies
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Running tests

pytest tests/

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct and the process for submitting pull requests.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.