# Chatpack MCP [Health: Active]

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**Repository:** https://github.com/chddaniel/chatpack  
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**Directory Page:** https://allmcps.com/mcp/chatpack-mcp

## Description
Read-only MCP server for Chatpack documentation, framework setup guides, and React UI block source. Runs locally over stdio with npx -y @chatpack/mcp. Node.js 20 or later; MIT license; no account or API key required.

## Claude Desktop Quick Installation
Install path detected from listing signals. Uses `npx` (confidence: high):

```json
"mcpServers": {
  "chatpack-mcp": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": ["-y","@chatpack/mcp"]
  }
}
```

## Documentation

## What Chatpack MCP MCP server does

Chatpack MCP MCP server gives MCP-compatible AI clients a read-only way to consult Chatpack’s project materials. Its coverage includes documentation search, framework setup guidance, and source for React UI blocks. It is intended for development assistance rather than for changing a Chatpack project, querying an application database, or operating a deployed chat backend.

The underlying Chatpack project provides chat infrastructure for applications, including conversations, messages, permissions, read state, group membership, and real-time delivery. The MCP package focuses on helping an agent understand and use that project; it does not expose those runtime chat features as write-capable agent tools.

## How it works

The package runs as a local MCP process and communicates with the configured client over standard input and output. A client starts the package with npx, then uses its read-only capabilities to locate relevant documentation, framework instructions, or React UI block implementation details.

Because the process reads project reference material rather than connecting to a hosted Chatpack account, no Chatpack account, API key, or remote service configuration is required. The server is separate from the Chatpack packages used to build an application, such as the core engine and storage adapters.

## Setup and configuration

Install Node.js 20 or newer, then configure the MCP client to launch the package with:

```sh
npx -y @chatpack/mcp
```

The server is designed for local stdio execution. Client configuration should use the command above as the server process; the provided material does not specify environment variables, a network endpoint, or additional configuration values.

This setup is useful in an editor or coding-agent workflow where the model needs to look up Chatpack conventions during implementation. The repository also mentions client configuration for MCP users, but the available material does not provide client-specific configuration files or JSON examples.

## Tools and capabilities

Chatpack MCP MCP server supports these documented areas:

- Searching Chatpack documentation
- Retrieving framework setup guides
- Reading React UI block source
- Serving reference content through read-only MCP tools

The documentation covers subjects such as quickstart usage, concepts, real-time behavior, storage adapters, framework guides, and the REST reference. The available description does not name individual MCP tool identifiers or define their arguments and return schemas, so those details should be confirmed in the package’s own README or client inspection interface.

## Limitations and notes

The server is read-only. It does not create or modify Chatpack resources, configure authentication, provision storage, or mount an application’s API. Those tasks remain part of integrating Chatpack into an application.

Chatpack MCP MCP server requires Node.js 20 or later and runs locally over stdio. The Chatpack project is currently in the 0.x phase, and its API may receive minor breaking changes before version 1.0. The MCP package itself is released under the MIT license.

_Full upstream README: https://allmcps.com/mcp/chatpack-mcp/readme_