The CrowdCent MCP server now ships inside the [`crowdcent-challenge`](https://github.com/crowdcent/crowdcent-challenge) package as an optional extra.
Crowdcent MCP MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Crowdcent MCP directly instead of describing what you should do. The CrowdCent MCP server now ships inside the crowdcent-challenge package as an optional extra. One config line replaces this repository, no clone or absolute paths needed:.
Being a remote server, there is no local install. You register the endpoint with your client, authorise it once, and the tools appear.
You will need one environment variable: CROWDCENT_API_KEY. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
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. It is maintained by crowdcent; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Crowdcent MCP's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
{
"mcpServers": {
"crowdcent": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["--from", "crowdcent-challenge[mcp]", "crowdcent-mcp"],
"env": {"CROWDCENT_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| CROWDCENT_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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