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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. 154 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 29 Oct 2026.

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

Installs per day peak 120 · avg 35 · -38% w/w
a month agotoday
154
Installs / week
pypi · distillery-mcp
25
Stars
31 open issues
29 Oct 2026
Last commit
from GitHub
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License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 3 d ago · rules 995398eba69f

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.

Image runs as root Dockerfile:37
# 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": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "distillery-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.distillery-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["distillery-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "distillery-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "distillery-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "distillery-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "distillery-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: JINA_API_KEY (API key for Jina embedding provider), OPENAI_API_KEY (API key for OpenAI embedding provider (alternative to Jina)).

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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 154 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 in the form 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 154 times in the last week. Week over week that is -38%. 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, 25 stars on GitHub and 31 open issues, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.