`chuk-mcp` gives you a clean, typed, transport-agnostic implementation for both **MCP clients and servers**. It focuses on the protocol surface
chuk-mcp gives you a clean, typed, transport-agnostic implementation for both MCP clients and servers. It focuses on the protocol surface (messages, types, versioning, transports) and leaves orchestration, UIs, and agent frameworks. Exposed over MCP by the chuk mcp mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
Tools — The Tools tool exposed by this serverResources — resources = await send_resources_list(read, write) if resources.resources: uri = resources.resources[0].uri data = await send_resources_read(readPrompts — prompts = await send_prompts_list(read, write) if prompts.prompts: got = await send_prompts_get(read, write, name=prompts.prompts[0].nameBeing a remote server, there is no local install. You register the endpoint with your client, authorise it once, and the tools appear.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Chuk MCP's toolset — Tools, Resources, Prompts — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by chrishayuk; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Tools | The Tools tool exposed by this server. |
| Resources | resources = await send_resources_list(read, write) if resources.resources: uri = resources.resources[0].uri data = await send_resources_read(read, write, uri) print(data.contents) |
| Prompts | prompts = await send_prompts_list(read, write) if prompts.prompts: got = await send_prompts_get(read, write, name=prompts.prompts[0].name, arguments={}) for m in got.messages: print(m.role, m.content) |
{
"mcpServers": {
"sqlite": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["mcp-server-sqlite", "--db-path", "database.db"]
},
"filesystem": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem", "."]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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