Install minirag-mcp for Claude Desktop
Claude Desktop reads mcpServers from claude_desktop_config.json. Restart the app after saving.
- Open ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS, %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json on Windows, or ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on Linux.
- Paste the JSON config below.
- Replace placeholder secrets, then restart the client if it does not reload on its own.
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"sfrangulov-minirag-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"minirag-mcp"
],
"env": {
"BASE_DIR": "",
"BASE_DIRS": "",
"DB_PATH": "",
"CACHE_DIR": "",
"MODEL_NAME": "sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2",
"MAX_FILE_SIZE": "104857600",
"CHUNK_TOKEN_BUDGET": "110",
"RAG_HYBRID_WEIGHT": "0.6",
"RAG_GROUPING": "",
"RAG_MAX_DISTANCE": "",
"RAG_MAX_FILES": "",
"RAG_INSTRUCTIONS_APPEND": "",
"ALLOW_PRIVATE_URLS": "false"
}
}
}
}