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MCP Compress MCP Server

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MCP Compress is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

List compression profiles, estimate gains, and compress images, PDFs, and Office files.

Uptime history 11 days of history
11 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
665 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp-compress --transport http https://mcp-compress.custom-digital-services.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://mcp-compress.custom-digital-services.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp-compress]
url = "https://mcp-compress.custom-digital-services.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-compress": {
      "url": "https://mcp-compress.custom-digital-services.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-compress": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp-compress.custom-digital-services.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

compress
compress_file
Compress a file and return the result as base64. Pass fileBase64 + fileName. Choose EITHER a preset 'level' (light|balanced|maximum, default balanced) OR a 'custom' profile { imageQuality: 1-100, maxDimension?: px, convertFormat?: webp|avif|jpeg } -- supplying both is rejected. Supported families: images (PNG/JPG/WebP/AVIF), PDF (embedded JPEG images re-encoded, no AGPL tool), and Office OOXML (DOCX/PPTX/XLSX embedded media re-encoded). Returns fileBase64, bytesBefore, bytesAfter, gainPercent, mimeType and the output format. If compression would enlarge a non-converted file, the original is returned with 0% gain. WARNING: convertFormat 'avif' is CPU/RAM heavy (>= 1 GB RAM for large images). Max input size: 26214400 decoded bytes.
compression
list_compression_profiles
List the three compression presets (light, balanced, maximum) with their exact image quality and max-dimension caps, a note per preset, and the maximum accepted input size. Values are kept in parity with the Compresseur Local web app. Takes no parameters.
estimate
estimate_compression
Detect a file (family, format, size from magic bytes) and estimate the compression gain by ACTUALLY compressing it. Pass the file as base64 (fileBase64) plus its fileName (the extension disambiguates Office formats). Omit 'level' to estimate all three presets, or set it for a single one. Returns the detected metadata and, per level, the resulting byte size, gain percentage and output format. Max input size: 26214400 decoded bytes; the HTTP body must accept base64 (decoded x 4/3 plus margin).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp-compress.custom-digital-services.com/mcp streamable-http answering 671 ms 8 min ago

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MCP Compress — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can MCP Compress do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compress_file, estimate_compression, list_compression_profiles. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is MCP Compress working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 665 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect MCP Compress?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does MCP Compress need an API key?
No. MCP Compress completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is MCP Compress?
It answers our handshake in 665 ms on average, which is faster than 15% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.