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Rowbase MCP Server

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Rowbase runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 1 630 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 8 Oct 2026.

Safe, read-only-by-default MySQL, PostgreSQL & SQLite access for AI agents. TOON output.

Installs per day peak 926 · avg 72 · +200% w/w
a month agotoday
1 630
Installs / week
pypi · rowbase-db
0
Stars
0 open issues
8 Oct 2026
Last commit
from GitHub
Apache-2.0
License
Swift

What the code does

We read the source, 4 d ago · rules ccca72095570

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

sys.exit(subprocess.call(args, cwd=ROOT))
            m = __import__(mod)
            kw["unix_sock"] = sock if not os.path.isdir(sock) else os.path.join(sock, f".s.PGSQL.{int(c.get('port') or default_port)}")
  b.textContent = `Update to ${v.latest}`;
  b.title = `Rowbase ${v.latest} is available (you have ${v.current})`;
Secret passed into the image build Dockerfile:10
# no OS keychain inside a container → passwords come from ~/.config/rowbase/secrets.json or ROWBASE_PASSWORD_<NAME>
ENV ROWBASE_SECRETS=file PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch Rowbase and you get told the day something new turns up.

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add rowbase -- uvx rowbase-db
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rowbase": {
      "args": [
        "rowbase-db"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.rowbase]
command = "uvx"
args = ["rowbase-db"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rowbase": {
      "args": [
        "rowbase-db"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rowbase": {
      "args": [
        "rowbase-db"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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Rowbase — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Rowbase?
Rowbase 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 rowbase-db was installed 1 630 times last week.
How do I connect Rowbase?
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 rowbase-db straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Rowbase?
The pypi package rowbase-db was installed 1 630 times in the last week. Week over week that is +200%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Rowbase open source?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Swift and 0 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.