Hide MCP

🚀 Hide MCP Server

A MCP server for Hide, providing a headless IDE.

🚀 Quick Start

📦 Installation

Claude Desktop

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json%

✨ Features

🛠️ Tools

This server implements two tools, inspired by Anthropic's computer-use-demo:

Text Editor

Used to view and edit files. It supports viewing files with line numbers, listing directories, creating files, replacing strings with exact matches, inserting lines, and maintaining an edit history.

Bash

A persistent bash shell with support for common Linux/Python packages, background processes, and automatic output truncation.

🔧 Technical Details

🏗️ Build and Release

To prepare a distribution package:

1. Synchronize dependencies and update the lock file:

uv sync

2. Build the package distribution:

uv build

This will create source and wheel distributions in the dist/ directory.

3. Publish to PyPI:

uv publish

Note: You need to set your PyPI credentials via environment variables or command flags:

• Token: --token or UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN
• Or username/password: --username/UV_PUBLISH_USERNAME and --password/UV_PUBLISH_PASSWORD

📦 Packaging

To package the service into a standalone executable:

uv run pyinstaller hide-mcp.spec

This will create a standalone executable in the dist/ directory.

🐞 Debugging

Since the MCP server runs via stdio, debugging can be challenging. For the best debugging experience, we highly recommend using MCP Inspector.

You can start the MCP Inspector using this command via npm:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory /path/to/hide-mcp run hide-mcp

After starting, the Inspector will display a URL that you can access in your browser to start debugging.