mcp-devbrain-stdio

DevBrain MCP Server

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About

It is a newsletter-based MCP that searches for relevant code snippets, indie developer articles and blog posts so you don't have to hunt through generic web results again. Just ask LLM: "research on devbrain"

It's kind of like a web search, but specifically tuned for high-quality, developer-curated content. You can easily plug in your favorite newsletter to expand its knowledge base even further.

For example, when you are implementing feature "A", DevBrain can pull related articles that would serve as a solid reference and a foundation for your implementation.

Claude app	Goose app (tap on an image to open utube)

DevBrain returns articles as short description + URL, you can then:

• instruct LLM agent like Claude or Goose to fetch full contents of the articles using provided URLs
• instruct LLM to implement a feature based on all or selected articles

Installation and Usage

Via uv or uvx. Install uv and uvx (if not installed):

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Example command to run MCP server in stdio mode:

uvx --python ">=3.10" --from devbrain devbrain-stdio-server

Use in Claude Code

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/mcp#installing-mcp-servers
You can either add MCP to cc manually or reference tthe same .json file that Claude app uses.

Use in Claude

To add devbrain to Claude's config, edit the file:
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
and insert devbrain to existing mcpServers block like so:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "devbrain": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--python", ">=3.10",
        "--force-reinstall",
        "--from",
        "devbrain",
        "devbrain-stdio-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Claude issues:

• Somehow it fails to get the latest version even when OS has it installed. Forcing an update (at least once) is required for Claude app. This is done with --force-reinstall arg.
• Claude is known to fail when working with uv and uvx binaries. See related: https://gist.github.com/gregelin/b90edaef851f86252c88ecc066c93719. If you encounter this error then run these commands in a Terminal:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin

sudo ln -s ~/.local/bin/uvx /usr/local/bin/uvx

sudo ln -s ~/.local/bin/uv /usr/local/bin/uv

and restart Claude.

Integration for Cline and other AI agents

Command to start DevBrain MCP in stdio mode:

uvx --python ">=3.10" --force-reinstall --from devbrain devbrain-stdio-server

and add this command to a config file of the AI agent (Cline or other).

Note that DevBrain requires Python 3.10+ support. Most systems have it installed. However VS Code (that Cline depends on) is shipped with Python 3.9. Use correct version of Python when running DevBrain MCP. A corrected version to launch DevBrain MCP looks like this:

uvx --python ">=3.10" --force-reinstall --from devbrain devbrain-stdio-server

Docker integration

You can run this MCP as a Docker container in STDIO mode. First build an image with build.sh. Then add a config to Claude like so:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "devbrain": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "svenai/mcp-devbrain-stdio:latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Test command to verify that docker container works correctly:

docker run -i --rm svenai/mcp-devbrain-stdio:latest

License

This project is released under the MIT License and is developed by mimeCam as an open-source initiative.