Batru — Dota 2 & Deadlock win predictor

A minimal, read-only MCP server over batru.gg's live API, so your LLM can answer Dota 2 / Deadlock draft, counter and win-rate questions with real, calibrated model predictions instead of guessing from memory.

It is a thin wrapper around batru.gg's public endpoints — no model runs locally; every number comes from the same production model the website serves.

Why calibrated matters

batru.gg's model is trained on ~20M real matches and calibrated: a reported 60% win rate corresponds to an empirically observed ~60% win rate. We deliberately do not headline a raw "accuracy" number — accuracy alone is misleading for win prediction. What you get from these tools are probabilities you can trust at face value. The tool descriptions instruct the host LLM to report these numbers verbatim and never invent matchup data.

Tools

Hero names are accepted in any form (e.g. am, anti mage, Anti-Mage) and normalised internally — the backend silently drops names it doesn't recognise, so normalising first keeps predictions honest.

Install

Requires uv (or any way to run a Python 3.12+ package from PyPI):

uvx batru-mcp           # fetches from PyPI and starts the stdio MCP server

Configuration is via the BATRU_API_BASE environment variable (default https://batru.gg) — you normally don't need to set anything.

Claude Desktop config

Add to claude_desktop_config.json (macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "batru": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["batru-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop; the batru tools appear in the tool picker. Claude Code: claude mcp add batru -- uvx batru-mcp.

Development

git clone https://github.com/batrugg/batru-mcp && cd batru-mcp
uv sync
uv run batru-mcp        # run the server from the checkout (blocks, waiting on stdin)

For a Claude Desktop pointing at the checkout, use "command": "uv", "args": ["run", "--directory", "/absolute/path/to/batru-mcp", "batru-mcp"].

Tests

uv run pytest            # offline: hero normalisation + draft assembly
uv run pytest -m live    # also hits the real batru.gg API

Prefer programmatic access from Python instead of MCP? pip install batru — the official batru SDK.