Tatn MCP Server Diff Python

🚀 mcp-server-diff-python

An MCP server for obtaining text differences between two strings. This server leverages the Python standard library difflib to efficiently generate and provide unified-format text differences, making it ideal for text comparison and version control purposes.

✨ Features

Tools

This server offers one tool:

• get-unified-diff: Obtain the differences between two texts and return them in a unified format.
  • Parameters:
    • string_a: The source text for comparison (required).
    • string_b: The target text to compare with (required).
  • Return value: A string containing the unified-format differences.

💻 Usage Examples

Claude Desktop

When using Claude Desktop:

To use it in Claude Desktop, add the following server configuration:

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

"mcpServers": {
  "mcp-server-diff-python": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": [
      "mcp-server-diff-python"
    ]
  }
}

Or add the following configuration:

git clone https://github.com/tatn/mcp-server-diff-python.git
cd mcp-server-diff-python
uv sync
uv build

"mcpServers": {
  "mcp-server-diff-python": {
    "command": "uv",
    "args": [
      "--directory",
      "path\\to\\mcp-server-diff-python",
      "run",
      "mcp-server-diff-python"
    ]
  }
}

🔧 Technical Details

Debugging

You can use npx to start the MCP Inspector:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uvx mcp-server-diff-python

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory path\to\mcp-server-diff-python run mcp-server-diff-python