BenBox
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Agent AI app utilizing MCP tools with Angular mobile and Phoenix desktop app.
Details
- Author
- DrBenjamin
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- SSE‑based MCP server for decoupled agent communication.
- Supports Ollama and Azure OpenAI as LLM providers.
- Image recognition via Streamlit upload or MCP Inspector.
- Angular mobile app with Capacitor for iOS.
- Desktop app (PyInstaller) for file organization.
- Docker support for containerized deployment.
- Integration with Snowflake, PostgreSQL, and MinIO storage.
Setting up with Highlight
This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
-
Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
BenBoxCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
From the repository
Clone the repository, create a conda environment from environment.yml, install the mcp package, and run the MCP server (python src/server.py or mcp dev src/server.py). Launch the Streamlit app with streamlit run app.py, the Angular mobile app with ng serve, or the desktop app with python BenBox.py. Configure secrets in .streamlit/st.secrets.toml (e.g., MCP_URL, AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY, Ollama settings).
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Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"benbox": {
"BenBox": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"-m",
"pip",
"install",
"mcp[cli]"
]
}
}
}
}McpServers
{
"BenBox": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"-m",
"pip",
"install",
"mcp[cli]"
]
}
}BenBox
BenBox is an Agent AI app utilizing MCP
tools with Angular mobile and Phoenix desktop app.
Why MCP?
MCP server can now be some running process that agents (clients) connect to,
use, and disconnect from whenever and wherever they want. In other words,
an SSE-based server and clients can be decoupled processes
(potentially even, on decoupled nodes). This is different and better fits
"cloud-native" use-cases compared to the STDIO-based pattern where the client
itself spawns the server as a subprocess.
Setup
Install the required packages and the MCP server and client:
```bash
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