Ask LLM MCP Server

What the code does

We read the source, 4 d ago · rules 995398eba69f

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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

{
  "servers": {
    "ask-llm": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ask-llm/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: XAI_API_KEY (xAI API key for metered Grok requests; Ask LLM never enables billing or credits), ASK_GROK_HARNESS (Explicit Grok harness: xai-api (default) or grok-cli; no failover), ASK_GROK_MODEL (Exact selected-harness model override (API default grok-4.7; CLI default grok-4.7; no fallback)), ASK_GROK_REASONING_EFFORT (Grok 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)), CURSOR_API_KEY (Optional Cursor CLI credential for ask-cursor-agent; alternative to agent login), ASK_CURSOR_TIMEOUT_MS (Timeout for model-neutral Cursor Agent harness calls (default: 600000)), ASK_CLAUDE_MODEL (Default Claude model alias or full model name (default: opus)), ASK_CLAUDE_FALLBACK_MODEL (Claude CLI fallback when Opus is overloaded or unavailable (default: sonnet)), ASK_CLAUDE_TIMEOUT_MS (Timeout for Claude CLI execution in milliseconds (default: 600000 = 10 minutes)), OLLAMA_HOST (Ollama server address (default: http://localhost:11434)), ASK_ANTIGRAVITY_TIMEOUT_MS (Timeout for Antigravity (agy) execution in milliseconds (default: 300000 = 5 minutes)), ASK_ANTIGRAVITY_SANDBOX (Set to '0' to drop agy's --sandbox flag if it blocks --add-dir context reads (default: sandbox on)), GMCPT_TIMEOUT_MS (Timeout for CLI execution in milliseconds (default: 300000 = 5 minutes)), GMCPT_LOG_LEVEL (Log verbosity: debug, info, warn, error (default: warn)).