Kion Server

Installation

[!TIP] For more detailed installation and usage instructions, please see our support documentation

Claude Desktop Extension

uv is currently a requirement for the desktop extension. Please see installation instructions

Once uv is installed, the Claude Desktop Extension can be installed by downloading the .dxt archive from the releases section, and then the archive can be installed via the extension settings in Claude Destkop, double clicking the file, or dragging the file onto the extension settings.

Dockerhub

Releases are published to the kionsoftware/kion-mcp repository, and can be run directly using docker.

Pypi

This package can be installed via pip. pip install kion-mcp-server

Development Setup

Install uv

Install uv using homebrew with brew install uv

Install an MCP client

An MCP server needs an MCP client to run it. For development - the mcp inspector is a great tool for getting up and running with the server.

Add this server as a tool

For your MCP client there should be a json file defining what MCP Servers it has access to. Look up where this file is for your client and add something similar to this to it (json objects vary slightly by client check your client's documentation for the exact required JSON. MCP inspector has fields that can be configured directly.):

"KionMcp": {
    "command": "uv",
    "args": [
        "--directory",
        "<absolute path to this folder>",
        "run",
        "kion-mcp-server"
    ]
}

NOTE: sometimes you will need to give an exact path to uv for some clients to work properly. Just run which uv and put the output of that as the command in the JSON