@getvari/mcp

Stdio bridge for the public Vari Hydration Tools Model Context Protocol server. Lets MCP clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue.dev, and any other stdio-launching MCP host) call the six hydration calculators that back getvari.app — without writing a custom HTTP client.

The package is a ~50-line proxy. The real server is the Vercel-hosted HTTP endpoint at https://getvari.app/api/mcp/v1; we publish this package so stdio-only MCP installers can launch it via npx.

Tools

All six tools are deterministic, source-attributed, and require no auth.

Every response embeds a canonical source URL pointing at the corresponding getvari.app/tools page, so LLMs that surface the call to the user can cite the methodology.

Related MCP server: NutriBalance

Install

Claude Desktop

Edit claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vari-hydration": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@getvari/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The six tools appear under Vari Hydration in the tools panel.

Cursor

Cursor reads the same mcp.json shape. Drop this into ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vari-hydration": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@getvari/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Continue.dev

Add the server in your ~/.continue/config.json under experimental.modelContextProtocolServers:

{
  "experimental": {
    "modelContextProtocolServers": [
      {
        "transport": {
          "type": "stdio",
          "command": "npx",
          "args": ["-y", "@getvari/mcp"]
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Configuration

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Links

• Website: https://getvari.app

• Source repository: https://github.com/getvari/vari-mcp

• MCP manifest: https://getvari.app/.well-known/mcp.json

• OpenAPI 3.1 contract: https://getvari.app/api/mcp/v1/openapi.json

• MCP catalogue: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/servers