Stata MCP Server (macOS)

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for managing and running Stata .do files that integrates with Claude Desktop.

Features

📁 File management

• BROOK_Do_FILES: Get a list of .do files in a directory

• READ_FILE**: Read a .do file

• WRITE_FILE**: Create or overwrite a .do file (supports automatic backup)

✏️ Edit a file

• EDIT_FILE**: Edit a specific section of a .do file

  • Add a variable (add_variable)

  • Add analysis code (add_analysis)

  • Insert a custom section (insert_section)

🚀 Automation.

• generate_do_template**: Generate a .do file template using AI

• run_do_file**: Run a .do file in Stata (macOS support)

• run_do_selected_lines**: Run only selected lines ⭐ NEW!

Related MCP server: MCP File Operations Server

Installation complete ✅

The installation is complete with the following configuration:

• project path: /users/username/projects/stata-mcp-server

• Stata path: /Applications/Stata/StataBE.app/Contents/MacOS/StataBE

• Working directory**: /Users/username/Documents/Stata

• Cloud Desktop Settings**: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

How to use it.

1. Restart Claude Desktop

Completely shut down and restart Claude Desktop.

2. Enable in Claude Desktop

"Read the test.do file and show me"

"Create a do file that analyzes the relationship between education and income"

"Show me a list of all do files in the current directory"

"Add a logistic regression to the analysis.do file"

"Run only lines 10 through 15 of the test_sample.do file"

"Run only the regression part of the regression.do file separately"

3. Run selected lines ⭐

You can now select and run only certain lines of a do file:

"Run only lines 5 through 10 of the analysis.do file"
"Run only the data load part (lines 8-12) to test"

This function works as follows

1. extracts the specified line range

2. creates a temporary .do file (automatically adding the necessary settings)

3. run the temporary file in Stata

4. clean up the temporary file after returning results

Do file template structure.

/*******************************************************************************
* Project: [Analysis Description]
* Created: [Current Date]
* Author: Stata MCP Server (LLM generation)]
* Purpose: [Analysis Purpose] [Analysis Purpose
*******************************************************************************/

* Initial Setup
Clear all
More settings
Close capture logs
Log using "logfile.log", replace

* Load data
* Use "your_data.dta", clear

* Verify data
描述
summarize

* Create and preprocess variables
* generate new_var = .

* descriptive statistics
* tabulate var1

* main analysis
* regress Y X1 X2 X3

* save results
"results.doc" with * outreg2, replace

Close the log
exit

Testing

Verify that the server is working properly:

cd /users/username/projects/stata-mcp-server
echo '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"tools/list","id":1}' | node dist/index.js

Backup system

• Create automatic backups when files are modified

• Backup location: $STATA_WORKSPACE/.stata-backups/

• Format: Filename: filename.do.YYYY-MM-DDTHH-MM-SS-sssZ.bak

Troubleshooting

Common issues

1. Not recognized by Cloud Desktop 1.

   • Restart Cloud Desktop completely

   • Check configuration file path: /users/username/library/application support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

2. **Stata fails to run

   • Check Stata path: /Applications/Stata/StataBE.app/Contents/MacOS/StataBE

   • Check Stata license

3. **Permissions error

   • Check Documents/Stata directory permissions

   • Check file read/write permissions

Check the log

# Server logs
cd /users/username/project/stata-mcp-server
node dist/index.js 2> server.log

# Stata execution log
# .log files are generated with each .do file

Develop

Script

npm run build # compile typescript
npm run dev # Development mode (watch)
npm run start # Start the server
npm run clean # Clean build files

Environment variables

• STATA_PATH**: Stata executable path

• STATA_WORKSPACE**: Stata working directory

License

MIT License.

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**Created by the Sociology of Science Research Team ❤️ ** **

Congratulations on your Stata MCP server installation! 🎉 .

Restart the Claude desktop and try it out.