mcp-hosts-installer

by soufgit

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MCP server that installs and registers other MCP servers in Cursor, VS Code, or Claude Desktop from npm, PyPI, or a local folder (via npx).

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Author
soufgit
Categories
Developer Tools, Automation, Infrastructure

Setup

Install mcp-hosts-installer in your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and others).

Repository: https://github.com/soufgit/mcp-hosts-installer

Follow the installation instructions in the repository README, then restart your MCP client.

Install Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers from npm, PyPI, or a local path — directly from Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, or Claude Desktop.One setup: add this server once, then ask the model to install other MCP packages for you.

MCP installer for Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and Claude Desktop— register remote or local MCP servers in the host's config (settings.json/mcp.json/claude_desktop_config.json).

- Tools exposed to the host:install_repo_mcp_server(npm/PyPI package name) andinstall_local_mcp_server(folder path), with optionalargs,env, and targethost(claude-code|cursor|vscode|claude).
- Default host: whenhostis omitted, the tool picks a client thatalready hasa config file in the usual folder (Cursor first, then VS Code, then Claude Code, then Claude Desktop); if none exist, it targetsCursor.
- Prerequisites:Node.jswithnpx; for Python-based servers from PyPI,uvis used.

claude mcp add mcp-hosts-installer npx -- -y mcp-hosts-installer

Or manually in~/.claude/settings.json(created automatically if it doesn't exist):

{ "mcpServers": { "mcp-hosts-installer": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-hosts-installer"] } } }

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mcp.json— macOS:~/.cursor, Windows:%USERPROFILE%\.cursor.

{ "mcpServers": { "mcp-hosts-installer": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-hosts-installer"] } } }

User-levelmcp.json: macOS~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/mcp.json, Windows%APPDATA%\Code\User\mcp.json, Linux~/.config/Code/User/mcp.json. In VS Code: commandMCP: Open User Configuration.

{ "mcpServers": { "mcp-hosts-installer": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-hosts-installer"] } } }

claude_desktop_config.json— macOS:~/Library/Application Support/Claude, Windows:%APPDATA%\Claude.

{ "mcpServers": { "mcp-hosts-installer": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-hosts-installer"] } } }

If you don't passhost, use the inference above or sethostto"claude-code","claude","cursor", or"vscode"explicitly.

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