Rehype MCP Server

rehype penrose plugin

Local serverstdio

What is the Rehype MCP server?

Connect Rehype to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. rehype penrose plugin. The rehype mcp server is what makes that connection.

What the server does

Installation

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client.

Available tools

The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:

Worth knowing first

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

Where it fits

Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Rehype's toolset — Graphviz, Mermaid, Gnuplot and 4 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by stereobooster; 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We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
Graphviz[@beoe/rehype-graphviz](/packages/rehype-graphviz/)
Mermaid[@beoe/rehype-mermaid](/packages/rehype-mermaid/)
Gnuplot[@beoe/rehype-gnuplot](/packages/rehype-gnuplot/)
Vizdom[@beoe/rehype-vizdom](/packages/rehype-vizdom/)
Penrose[@beoe/rehype-penrose](/packages/rehype-penrose/)
DiagramsIdeas for other diagrams: [Text to Diagram](https://stereobooster.com/posts/text-to-diagram/).
CoreThe Core tool exposed by this server.

Example prompts to try

  • Use Rehype to Graphviz.
  • Use Rehype to Mermaid.
  • Use Rehype to Gnuplot.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Rehype to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 7 tools (Graphviz, Mermaid, Gnuplot, and more) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Rehype directly.