Xcf MCP Server

Xcf mcp server lets Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients work with Xcf directly. Speed up writing Xcode apps with xcf, a dead simple Swift-based MCP server designed for Cursor, Claude Code, and VSCode — no TypeScript, no JavaScript, no BS!.

What Xcf does

Speed up writing Xcode apps with xcf, a dead simple Swift-based MCP server designed for Cursor, Claude Code, and VSCode — no TypeScript, no JavaScript, no BS!

Tools it exposes

Once connected, the assistant can call these 14 tools directly:

• show — List open Xcode projects
• run — Run current project
• build — Build current project
• current — Show selected project
• env — Show environment variables
• pwd — Show current folder (aliases: dir, path)
• help — Display all available commands
• xcf — Execute xcf actions (show, open, build, run, current, env, pwd, analyze, lz)
• list — Lists all available tools on this server
• xcf_help — Quick help for xcf actions only
• use_xcf — Activate XCF mode
• tools — Show detailed reference for all tools including AI function calls
• show_help — Display help information about available commands
• build_project — Build the current Xcode project

Installing the xcf mcp server

Setup follows the standard MCP pattern: clone or install the server, then register it in your client's configuration file and restart the client. The configuration snippets on this page cover Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor.

Configuration

The server reads 2 environment variables: XCODE_PROJECT_FOLDER, XCODE_PROJECT. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.

Where it fits

Developer-tool servers are usually the first ones people connect, because they turn "help me with this code" into an assistant that can actually read the repo and act on it. Xcf sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — show, run, build among others — tells you what it is really for. Worth comparing against the other developer tools servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.

Practical notes

• This server runs locally, so it operates with whatever access your machine and its credentials already have. Scope that deliberately rather than by default.
• With 14 tools exposed, expect a noticeable bump in prompt size — disable it in projects that never use Xcf.
• Maintained by CodeFreezeAI, written in TypeScript.
• MCP clients ask for confirmation before each tool call by default. Keep that on while you learn what the xcf mcp server actually does with your data.
• Every entry in this directory is reviewed by hand before it goes live, and details are checked against the project's own documentation.