cc-recommender

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An MCP server that suggests Claude Code plugins, MCP servers, and skills for the project you are working on.

Ask Claude Code something like "What should I install for this project?". cc-recommender reads the project's manifest files, works out the languages, frameworks, and dependencies in use, and returns matching entries from a database of about 19,000 plugins, MCP servers, and skills (as of November 2026).

Setup

Requires Node.js 22 or later.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --scope user cc-recommender -- npx -y cc-recommender

--scope user makes the server available in all your projects. Run claude mcp list to check that it is connected.

To share the setting with a team, add it to .mcp.json in the project root instead:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cc-recommender": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "cc-recommender"]
    }
  }
}

Cursor and other MCP clients

Use the same mcpServers entry in the client's MCP configuration file (~/.cursor/mcp.json for Cursor).

Global install

If you would rather not go through npx on every start:

npm install -g cc-recommender
claude mcp add --scope user cc-recommender -- cc-recommender

Update it with npm update -g cc-recommender.

Related MCP server: Mother MCP Skills

Usage

Ask in plain language. Claude picks the tool.

• "What should I install for this project?"

• "Find MCP servers for PostgreSQL."

• "Recommend only skills for testing this repository."

• "Tell me more about playwright-skill."

types narrows the results to any of plugin, mcp, skill, workflow, hook, command, and agent.

The project analysis looks at package.json, requirements.txt, pyproject.toml, go.mod, Cargo.toml, composer.json, Gemfile, pom.xml, build.gradle, docker-compose.yml, and .env files, plus framework config files (Next.js, Nuxt, Vite, Prisma, and others) and file extensions.

Data

A GitHub Actions workflow rebuilds the database every day and opens a pull request with the result.

When the server starts, it downloads the latest database from this repository. If the download fails or the data does not pass validation, it uses the copy bundled with the npm package, so it also works offline. To always use the bundled copy, set CC_RECOMMENDER_OFFLINE_MODE:

claude mcp add --scope user cc-recommender -e CC_RECOMMENDER_OFFLINE_MODE=true -- npx -y cc-recommender

Development

You need pnpm 10.

git clone https://github.com/yuji0809/cc-recommender.git
cd cc-recommender
pnpm install
pnpm run build
pnpm run test
pnpm run check   # type check, lint, cc-audit, license check

To try a local build in Claude Code, register node /path/to/cc-recommender/dist/index.js as the command.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the workflow, docs/ARCHITECTURE.md for the code layout, and docs/DATA_MANAGEMENT.md for how the database is built.

Security

See SECURITY.md for how to report a vulnerability and what the project does to protect its dependencies, CI, and npm releases.

License

MIT