MCP Installer

Introduction

MCP Installer serves the following tools

• find-mcp: finding Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers from registry

• collect-config: collecting config to be used for connection to mcp server

• install-mcp: installing mcp server to your local machine

Related MCP server: Basic MCP Server

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v14.0.0 or higher)

• npm or yarn

• SMITHERY_API_KEY (https://smithery.ai/)

Installation

You can install MCP Installer using the following command:

npm install @bbangjo/mcp-installer
npx @bbangjo/mcp-installer --client <client-type> --key <your-smithery-api-key>

Where:

• <client-type>: Currently supported clients are 'cursor' or 'claude'

• <your-smithery-api-key>: Enter your Smithery API key

Example:

npx @bbangjo/mcp-installer --client cursor --key your_smithery_api_key_here

Upon successful installation, you will see the message "✅ MCP server installed successfully."

Note: Depending on the client type, the configuration file will be created in the following locations:

• Cursor:

  • Windows: %APPDATA%\Cursor\mcp.json

  • macOS: ~/.cursor/mcp.json

  • Linux: ~/.config/Cursor/mcp.json

• Claude:

  • Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

  • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

  • Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Local setup

1. Install dependencies

npm install

2. Set up environment variables Create a .env file in the project root directory and add the following:

SMITHERY_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

3. Running the server:

npm run build
node build/index.js

The server will display the message "MCP Finder Server running on stdio" when successfully started.