Typesense MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server that interfaces with Typesense

Installation

Install uv

Requires Python 3.11 or higher.

On Mac you can install it using homebrew

brew install uv

Clone the package

git clone git@github.com:avarant/typesense-mcp-server.git ~/typesense-mcp-server

Add the server to your MCP client config. Most clients (Cursor at ~/.cursor/mcp.json, Claude Desktop at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json, Windsurf, Zed, VS Code, etc.) accept the same mcpServers shape:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "typesense": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": ["--directory", "~/typesense-mcp-server", "run", "mcp", "run", "main.py"],
      "env": {
        "TYPESENSE_HOST": "",
        "TYPESENSE_PORT": "",
        "TYPESENSE_PROTOCOL": "",
        "TYPESENSE_API_KEY": ""
      }
    }
  }
}

Refer to your client's MCP documentation for the exact config file location.

Transports

The server supports three MCP transports. STDIO is the default and is what most desktop clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.) use. For remote clients or web UIs, you can run it as an HTTP server using either the legacy SSE transport or the newer Streamable HTTP transport.

STDIO (default)

TYPESENSE_API_KEY=xyz uv run python main.py

Streamable HTTP (recommended for web clients)

Single endpoint at /mcp. Works with browser-based clients like the llama.cpp web chat. Set MCP_TRANSPORT=streamable-http (or pass --http):

TYPESENSE_API_KEY=xyz \
MCP_TRANSPORT=streamable-http \
MCP_STATELESS_HTTP=true \
MCP_CORS_ORIGINS='*' \
uv run python main.py

• Stateless mode (MCP_STATELESS_HTTP=true) is required for clients that don't keep an MCP session across requests.
• CORS must be enabled (MCP_CORS_ORIGINS) for browser clients. Use a specific origin like http://localhost:8080 in production rather than *.

SSE (legacy)

Two endpoints, GET /sse for the event stream and POST /messages/ for JSON-RPC. Set MCP_TRANSPORT=sse (or pass --sse):

TYPESENSE_API_KEY=xyz MCP_TRANSPORT=sse uv run python main.py

Configuration

Env var	Default	Description
MCP_TRANSPORT	stdio	stdio, sse, or streamable-http
MCP_HOST	0.0.0.0	Bind address for HTTP transports
MCP_PORT	8000	Bind port for HTTP transports
MCP_STATELESS_HTTP	false	Stateless mode for HTTP transports (required for some web clients)
MCP_CORS_ORIGINS	(empty)	Comma-separated allowed origins. Empty disables CORS. * = any.

Available Tools

The Typesense MCP Server provides the following tools:

Server Management

• check_typesense_health - Checks the health status of the configured Typesense server
• list_collections - Retrieves a list of all collections in the Typesense server

Collection Management

• describe_collection - Retrieves the schema and metadata for a specific collection
• export_collection - Exports all documents from a specific collection
• create_collection - Creates a new collection with the provided schema
• delete_collection - Deletes a specific collection
• truncate_collection - Truncates a collection by deleting all documents but keeping the schema

Document Operations

• create_document - Creates a single new document in a specific collection
• upsert_document - Upserts (creates or updates) a single document in a specific collection
• index_multiple_documents - Indexes (creates, upserts, or updates) multiple documents in a batch
• delete_document - Deletes a single document by its ID from a specific collection
• import_documents_from_csv - Imports documents from CSV data into a collection

Search Capabilities

• search - Performs a keyword search on a specific collection
• vector_search - Performs a vector similarity search on a specific collection