mcp · philipithomas — Claude Code MCP server: what it does, how to install
Connects Contraption Company essay content to your AI client through search and retrieval tools, using a hosted endpoint or local setup.
claude mcp add --transport sse mcp https://mcp.contraption.co/What mcp does
This server links your AI client to Contraption Company essays indexed inside Chroma Cloud. It exposes three core tools: search to run text queries across articles, list_posts to paginate through items, and fetch to retrieve full markdown content by canonical URL.
Users can connect instantly to the public hosted instance at https://mcp.contraption.co without authentication. For local deployments via Python or Docker, you need a Ghost Admin API key, Chroma Cloud database credentials, and a Voyage API key for embeddings.
Query logging and members-only indexing stay active by default.
What it helps with
- search blog posts and pages using text queries
- retrieve complete article text via its canonical identifier
- paginate through published blog posts in chat
- sync updated or newly published Ghost articles every 5 minutes
Example prompts for the agent
- Find blog articles about agents using
search - List recent publications with
list_posts - Fetch the full content of an essay using
fetch
How to install mcp
Platform CLI: remote server
claude mcp add --transport sse mcp https://mcp.contraption.co/Codex
Codex connects MCP servers over stdio and streamable HTTP only, and this server speaks SSE
Config file
{
"mcpServers": {
"philipithomas-mcp": {
"url": "https://mcp.contraption.co/"
}
}
}Config file
{
"servers": {
"philipithomas-mcp": {
"type": "sse",
"url": "https://mcp.contraption.co/"
}
}
}Platform CLI: remote server
gemini mcp add -t sse philipithomas-mcp https://mcp.contraption.co/Step by step, with commands for each platform: How to add an MCP server to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI and more
Questions about mcp
How to install mcp in Claude Code?
Run claude mcp add --transport sse mcp https://mcp.contraption.co/ in your terminal.
What does mcp do?
It provides tools to search, list, and fetch essay content from Contraption Company directly into your assistant context.
What credentials are required to run it locally?
You need a Ghost Admin API key, Chroma Cloud database credentials, and a Voyage API key for embeddings generation.
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