Claude Chat

mcp-server-claude-chat

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for the Anthropic Claude Messages API. Built in Rust, it exposes chat, vision, live web search, and model listing as MCP tools — so any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, etc.) can consult Claude as a tool.

Communicates via stdio using JSON-RPC 2.0, like all the other MCP servers in this collection. Structurally it mirrors mcp-server-grok-chat / mcp-server-gpt-chat, adapted to Anthropic's API shape.

Subscription vs. API credits

This server uses the Anthropic API with an API key (API credits). That is the only supported, terms-compliant way to drive Claude from a third-party tool.

A Claude Pro/Max subscription (the kind that powers Claude Code and the Claude apps) is *not* usable here: that authentication is licensed for Anthropic's own first-party clients, and routing it through a custom server would violate Anthropic's Consumer Terms — the "$200 of Claude usage from another service" concern you raised. So: API key it is. (If you run an Anthropic-compatible gateway, point base_url at it — see Configuration.)

Tools

Note: Anthropic has no embeddings endpoint (they recommend Voyage AI), so unlike the grok/gpt servers there is no embedding tool.

chat

chat_with_vision

chat_with_search

Web search is billed by Anthropic at $10 per 1,000 searches on top of token costs, and an org admin must enable web search in the Claude Console.

list_models

No parameters. Results cached for 5 minutes.

Prerequisites

• Rust (edition 2024)
• An Anthropic API key from console.anthropic.com

Setup

mkdir -p ~/.config/mcp-server-claude-chat

cp config.toml.example ~/.config/mcp-server-claude-chat/config.toml

then edit it and set api_key

Config (~/.config/mcp-server-claude-chat/config.toml):

api_key = "sk-ant-..."

Optional:

base_url = "https://api.anthropic.com/v1" # or a compatible gateway

default_model = "claude-opus-4-8"

default_max_tokens = 4096

The server fails fast at startup if the config is missing or api_key is empty.

Build

cargo build --release   # produces target/release/claude-chat

cargo build # debug build cargo run # run in dev mode RUST_LOG=debug cargo run cargo test # unit tests (response formatting, validation, message building)

MCP Configuration

Claude Desktop (~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json) or any MCP client:

{

"mcpServers": { "claude-chat": { "command": "/media/codechap/4TB/develop/mcps/mcp-server-claude-chat/target/release/claude-chat" } } }

Claude Code:

claude mcp add claude-chat -- /media/codechap/4TB/develop/mcps/mcp-server-claude-chat/target/release/claude-chat

Project Structure

src/

main.rs - entry point, config loading, stdio transport setup server.rs - MCP tool definitions (chat, chat_with_vision, chat_with_search, list_models) api.rs - Anthropic HTTP client, Messages/Models types, response formatter params.rs - tool parameter types with serde + JSON Schema derives config.rs - TOML config loading

License

MIT