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Distillery MCP Server

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Distillery runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 200 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 13 Aug 2026.

Knowledge base for Claude Code with semantic search, feed intelligence, and teams

Installs per day peak 115 · avg 29 · +20% w/w
a month agotoday
200
Installs / week
pypi · distillery-mcp
24
Stars
33 open issues
13 Aug 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 21 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

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.

Builds a database query by concatenation [пакет] .github/workflows/bench-graph-regression-cell.yml:538, .github/workflows/bench-graph-regression-cell.yml:538
            bench(graph): update Cell A regression aggregate from run

            Run ID: ${{ github.run_id }}
Image runs as root Dockerfile:28
# The `-dev` variant runs as `nonroot` by default. Switch to root so we can
# copy the `uv` binary into /usr/local/bin and write to /app.
USER root

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

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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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 distillery-mcp -- uvx distillery-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "distillery-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "distillery-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.distillery-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["distillery-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "distillery-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "distillery-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "distillery-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "distillery-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: JINA_API_KEY (API key for Jina embedding provider), OPENAI_API_KEY (API key for OpenAI embedding provider (alternative to Jina)). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Distillery — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Distillery?
Distillery 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 distillery-mcp was installed 200 times last week.
How do I connect Distillery?
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 distillery-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Distillery?
The pypi package distillery-mcp was installed 200 times in the last week. Week over week that is +20%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Distillery open source?
We cannot say either way: written in Python, 24 stars on GitHub and 33 open issues, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.