Optical Context MCP Server

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Optical Context MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 154 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 16 Sep 2026.

Compress OCR-heavy PDFs into dense packed images so agents can work with long visual documents.

Installs per day peak 50 · avg 25 · +12% w/w

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154

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16 Sep 2026

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MIT

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Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Optical Context MCP every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add optical-context-mcp -- uvx optical-context-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "optical-context-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "optical-context-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.optical-context-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["optical-context-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "optical-context-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "optical-context-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "optical-context-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "optical-context-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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Optical Context MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Optical Context MCP?

Optical Context MCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package optical-context-mcp was installed 154 times last week.

How do I connect Optical Context MCP?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls optical-context-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Optical Context MCP?

The pypi package optical-context-mcp was installed 154 times in the last week. Week over week that is +12%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Optical Context MCP open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 1 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.