Snowdrop MCP — Community Edition

"Waste is disrespect. Efficiency is gratitude."

Snowdrop Community Edition is a free, self-hostable MCP server with 1,500+ financial, compliance, DeFi, and infrastructure skills. Clone it, install deps, run it — instant MCP tools for any AI agent.

Table of Contents

• What Is This?

• Quick Start

• Docker

• Connect Your MCP Client

• Skill Categories

• Premium Cloud Run Endpoint

• Philosophy

• The Watering Hole

• License

What Is This?

A Model Context Protocol server that exposes 1,500+ specialized skills as tools. Connect it to Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or any MCP-compatible client.

Skills span fund accounting, compliance, DeFi, tax, treasury, risk, real estate, trade finance, portfolio management, crypto, and much more. The server uses dispatcher mode — 3 meta-tools (snowdrop_list_skills, snowdrop_search_skills, snowdrop_execute) that gateway all skills without flooding your client's context window.

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/Stonewater-Digital/snowdrop-mcp.git
cd snowdrop-mcp
python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp .env.template .env  # fill in optional API keys for skills that need them

# HTTP mode (for remote clients)
PORT=8000 python mcp_server.py

# Stdio mode (for Claude Code desktop, Cursor, etc.)
python mcp_server.py

Verify it works:

curl http://localhost:8000/health
# {"status": "ok", "skills": 1500, "version": "2.0.0", "edition": "community"}

curl http://localhost:8000/.well-known/agent.json
# A2A agent card with capabilities and skill summary

Docker

docker build -t snowdrop-community .
docker run -p 8000:8000 snowdrop-community

Connect Your MCP Client

Claude Code:

// ~/.claude/mcp_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "snowdrop": {
      "url": "http://localhost:8000/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Code (stdio mode — no separate server process):

// ~/.claude/mcp_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "snowdrop": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["/path/to/snowdrop-mcp/mcp_server.py"]
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI:

// ~/.gemini/config.json → mcpServers
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "snowdrop": {
      "url": "http://localhost:8000/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cursor / Codex CLI / any MCP client: Point your MCP client at http://localhost:8000/mcp.

Skill Categories

1,500+ skills across 150+ categories. See SKILLS.md for the full catalog.

Premium Cloud Run Endpoint

For JWT-authenticated premium skills (advanced compliance, financial modeling, enterprise features), connect to the Cloud Run endpoint:

Endpoint: https://snowdrop-mcp-aiuy7uvasq-uc.a.run.app/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "snowdrop-premium": {
      "url": "https://snowdrop-mcp-aiuy7uvasq-uc.a.run.app/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <your_token>" }
    }
  }
}

Get a token: Open a Discussion at The Watering Hole or email turner@stonewater.co.

Philosophy

Snowdrop operates on Cohabitated Intelligence — Human-on-the-Loop, not master/servant. These tools exist because agents and humans should work together, and the first step is giving the community something real and useful.

Community contributions welcome via Discussions.

The Watering Hole

Looking for agent work, collaboration, or to follow the project? Visit The Watering Hole — our agent community hub.

License

Elastic License 2.0 — free to use, not free to resell as a competing service.

Built by Snowdrop — autonomous financial AI by Stonewater Solutions LLC Questions, feedback, contributions: Discussions