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Awesome Core MCP Server

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Awesome Core runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 791 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 19 Oct 2026.

Read-only MCP server over a local, offline catalog of tools from GitHub awesome lists.

Installs per day peak 505 · avg 26
a month agotoday
791
Installs / week
pypi · awesome-core
0
Stars
0 open issues
19 Oct 2026
Last commit
from GitHub
MIT
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 5 d ago · rules 995398eba69f

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.

        result = subprocess.run(
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.

        result = subprocess.run(
Builds a database query by concatenation web/templates/search.html:10
        <select name="lang">
            <option value="">dowolny język</option>
            {% for name, count in langs %}<option value="{{ name }}" {% if filters.lang == name %}selected{% endif %}>{{ name }} ({{ count }})</option>{% endfor %}
Secret passed into the image build Dockerfile:16
# Baza (data/awesome.db) i README list (offline-db/) są w .gitignore, więc
# trzeba je odtworzyć w trakcie builda: najpierw pobranie list z GitHuba,
# potem zbudowanie bazy. Token jest opcjonalny — bez niego GitHub limituje
# wyszukiwanie, ale build i tak się kończy.
ARG GITHUB_TOKEN=""

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 Awesome Core 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 awesome-core -- uvx awesome-core
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "awesome-core": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "awesome-core"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.awesome-core]
command = "uvx"
args = ["awesome-core"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "awesome-core": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "awesome-core"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "awesome-core": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "awesome-core"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: AWESOME_DATA_DIR (Katalog z gotową bazą awesome.db (zbudowaną przez ./awesome start)).

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Awesome Core — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Awesome Core?
Awesome Core 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 awesome-core was installed 791 times last week.
How do I connect Awesome Core?
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 awesome-core straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Awesome Core?
The pypi package awesome-core was installed 791 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Awesome Core open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python 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.