Deliberate Thinking

A structured thinking Model Context Protocol tool for AI assistants that breaks down complex problems into sequential, revisable thoughts.

Notes

• This is based on the Sequential Thinking MCP
• The project goal is merely to be useful to me and my work. It's easy to fork for your work.
• This is written in Rust merely for low-latency start-up times and for fun.

Quick Start

Install

From GitHub Releases (recommended):

Download the latest binary for your platform from the releases page.

Available platforms:

• macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)
• Linux (x86_64 and ARM64)
• Windows (x86_64)

From source:

git clone https://github.com/kljensen/deliberate-thinking.git
cd deliberate-thinking
cargo build --release

Adding deliberate thinking to your AI assistant

You can find instructions for your assistants at these links:

• Claude Code MCP instructions
• OpenAI Codex MCP instructions
• GitHub Copilot MCP instructions

For Claude Code, I often have a .mcp.json file in my working directory with the following content.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "deliberate-thinking": {
      "command": "/your/path/to/deliberate-thinking-server",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

License

The Unlicense.