Ask Grok MCP Server

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 mcp add ask-grok -- npx -y @ask-llm/grok-mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ask-grok": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ask-llm/grok-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.ask-grok]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@ask-llm/grok-mcp"]

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ask-grok": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ask-llm/grok-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ask-grok": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ask-llm/grok-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: XAI_API_KEY (xAI API key used only for requests to https://api.x.ai), ASK_GROK_HARNESS (Explicit harness: xai-api (default) or grok-cli; no automatic failover), ASK_GROK_MODEL (Exact selected-harness model override (API default grok-4.6; CLI default grok-build; no fallback)), ASK_GROK_REASONING_EFFORT (Reasoning effort: low, medium, high, or xhigh (default: high)), ASK_GROK_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS (xAI API output-token ceiling to bound accidental spend (default: 16384)), ASK_GROK_TIMEOUT_MS (Timeout for xAI API requests in milliseconds (default: 600000)), GMCPT_LOG_LEVEL (Log verbosity: debug, info, warn, error (default: warn)). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.