MCP Chat Adapter

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides a clean interface for LLMs to use chat completion capabilities through the MCP protocol. This server acts as a bridge between an LLM client and…

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What is the MCP Chat Adapter MCP Server?

MCP Chat Adapter is an MCP project maintained in the aiamblichus/mcp-chat-adapter repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides a clean interface for LLMs to use chat completion capabilities through the MCP protocol. This server acts…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.

Installation

The documented npm package is mcp-chat-adapter. The configuration below comes from the maintainer’s example; adapt its paths and account values to your environment.

Configuration values

The example declares CONVERSATION_DIR, OPENAI_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_BASE, DEFAULT_MODEL. Secret-looking values have been replaced with placeholders. Required and optional labels are shown only when the documentation states them.

Source

Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.

How to install the MCP Chat Adapter MCP Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chat-adapter": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-chat-adapter"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CONVERSATION_DIR": "/Users/aiamblichus/mcp-convos",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY",
        "OPENAI_API_BASE": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
        "DEFAULT_MODEL": "qwen/qwq-32b"
      }
    }
  }
}

From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
CONVERSATION_DIRDeclared in the maintainer’s client configuration.Check documentation
OPENAI_API_KEYDeclared in the maintainer’s client configuration.Check documentation
OPENAI_API_BASEDeclared in the maintainer’s client configuration.Check documentation
DEFAULT_MODELDeclared in the maintainer’s client configuration.Check documentation