Cline MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that gives Cline + LM Studio superpowers: web search, image downloading, webpage reading, command execution, and PDF parsing — all without needing API keys.

Tools

Related MCP server: MCP Server Toolkit

Setup

1. Build the server

cd ~/cline-mcp-server
npm install
npm run build

2. Configure Cline to use this MCP server

Open your Cline MCP settings file. Depending on your setup, this is typically at:

• VS Code: ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/globalStorage/saoudrizwan.claude-dev/settings/cline_mcp_settings.json

• Cursor: ~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/globalStorage/saoudrizwan.claude-dev/settings/cline_mcp_settings.json

Add this entry to the mcpServers object:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cline-tools": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/Users/pirrima001/cline-mcp-server/dist/index.js"],
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

3. Restart Cline

After saving the config, restart the Cline extension (or reload the VS Code window). You should see the new tools available in Cline's MCP tools list.

Usage Examples

Once connected, Cline (even with LM Studio) can:

Search the web:

"Search for the latest React 19 features"

Read a webpage:

"Fetch the content from https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/"

Download images:

"Download the image at https://example.com/photo.jpg to ./downloads/photo.jpg"

Run commands:

"Run ls -la in my home directory"

Read PDFs:

"Extract the text from ./documents/paper.pdf"

Development

# Run in development mode (no build needed)
npm run dev

# Build for production
npm run build

# Run the built server
npm start

How It Works

• Web search scrapes DuckDuckGo's HTML results page (no API key required)

• Webpage fetching uses Cheerio to extract clean text, stripping ads/nav/scripts

• Image download streams the file to disk with content-type validation

• Command execution has a blocklist for dangerous patterns (rm -rf /, fork bombs, etc.)

• PDF reading works with both local files and URLs

Requirements

• Node.js 18+ (tested with 18.19.1)

• No API keys needed — everything works out of the box