@tootega/dase-mcp

Standalone MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for the DASE ORM Designer. The full MCP implementation — server, 43 tools, protocol handling — lives HERE, outside VS Code. The DASE extension carries no MCP code at all: it only exposes a loopback agent bridge (plain JSON over HTTP) that this server discovers and drives.

Deliverables:

1. Standalone stdio MCP server (src/server/, built to dist/ and bundled to claude-plugin/server/dase-mcp.cjs) — registers the whole DASE tool set; each tool call becomes one HTTP round trip to the bridge.

2. Claude Code plugin (claude-plugin/) — publishes that server as an installable plugin.

How it works

Claude Code ──stdio──> dase-mcp server ──HTTP (dase-bridge/1)──> DASE agent bridge (VS Code)
                        │  discovery: bridge-endpoint.<hash>.json                │
                        └── globalStorage/hermessilva.dase ◄──── written by ─────┘

The DASE extension (setting dase.agentBridge.enabled, on by default) binds an ephemeral loopback port and writes discovery files (url + protocol + workspacePath + pid) into its global storage. This server picks the live window whose workspace matches the client's working directory, connects lazily, and re-discovers + retries once when a call fails (e.g. the ephemeral port changed after a VS Code reload). When no DASE window is up, tool calls fail with instructions and the dase_status tool reports connectivity.

Bridge protocol: POST /bridge with { "method": "...", "args": [...] } → { "ok": true, "result": ... } or { "ok": false, "error": "..." }. GET /bridge lists the available methods.

Overrides: DASE_BRIDGE_URL (skip discovery), DASE_MCP_DISCOVERY_DIR (extra discovery directory).

Related MCP server: MCP Database Server

Build

npm install
npm run build   # tsc (dist/) + esbuild bundle (claude-plugin/server/dase-mcp.cjs)
node scripts/smoke-test.cjs   # fake bridge + stdio round trip

claude-plugin/server/dase-mcp.cjs is a committed build artifact — plugin installs clone the repo and must not need npm install.

Install as a Claude Code plugin

/plugin marketplace add <this repo>
/plugin install dase-mcp

The marketplace manifest is .claude-plugin/marketplace.json (points at ./claude-plugin).

Tool surface

43 tools (12 read, 23 write/mutation, 7 command triggers, 1 status) — see docs/MCP_API_SPEC.md. Integration and security notes: docs/MCP_INTEGRATION.md.