mcp-prompts

A Model Context Protocol server that stores, searches and serves prompt templates and agent configurations to any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and others), plus a script that uses those templates to orchestrate Claude CLI agents over a whole project.

Listed on Glama, MCP Market and AIBASE. A Rust reimplementation focused on memory efficiency and concurrency lives in mcp-prompts-rs.

What It Does

• Stores prompts as JSON files in data/prompts/
• Exposes MCP tools for querying and managing prompts
• Provides agent templates for project orchestration
• Works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, and other MCP clients

Packages

• GitHub Packages (preferred): @sparesparrow/mcp-prompts, registry https://npm.pkg.github.com
• npm: @sparesparrow/mcp-prompts, no token needed

Both registries receive the same version from every v* tag (first together at 4.0.2); Docker images follow the same tag.

• Docker: ghcr.io/sparesparrow/mcp-prompts (Docker Hub: sparesparrow/mcp-prompts)

Quick Start

1. Install from GitHub Packages

GitHub Packages asks for a token even for public packages (without one the install fails with 401 Unauthorized). Create a personal access token with the read:packages scope (or, with the GitHub CLI, run gh auth refresh -h github.com -s read:packages), then add this to ~/.npmrc:

@sparesparrow:registry=https://npm.pkg.github.com
//npm.pkg.github.com/:_authToken=YOUR_TOKEN

Keep the token out of any file you commit. Then install:

npm install -g @sparesparrow/mcp-prompts
mcp-prompts   # starts the MCP server on stdio; stop it with Ctrl+C

The package ships the prompts in data/prompts, and the server finds them wherever an MCP client starts it from. Set PROMPTS_DIR to use your own directory instead.

To install from npm instead, skip the ~/.npmrc lines above and run npm install -g @sparesparrow/mcp-prompts. It is the same package, and npm needs no token.

2. Add the server to your MCP client

Claude Code, for every project:

claude mcp add -s user mcp-prompts -- mcp-prompts

Or for one project, commit a .mcp.json at its root (no paths or tokens in it). Claude Code asks you to approve it the first time:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-prompts": {
      "command": "mcp-prompts",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

Check it with claude mcp list. Use one of the two: registering the same name at both scopes gives you two servers.

Claude Desktop and other clients take the same command in their config (for Claude Desktop, claude_desktop_config.json), with the same mcpServers block as above. If the client does not find mcp-prompts on its PATH, use the full path from which mcp-prompts as the command.

Build from source

To run unreleased changes:

pnpm install
pnpm build
node dist/mcp-server-standalone.js    # or: pnpm start

and point your client at that file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-prompts": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/mcp-prompts/dist/mcp-server-standalone.js"],
      "env": { "PROMPTS_DIR": "/absolute/path/to/mcp-prompts/data/prompts" }
    }
  }
}

3. Use in Claude

Ask Claude:

• “List all prompts tagged with orchestration”
• “Get the claudepy-esp32-android-bridge-workflow prompt”
• “Apply the claudepy-esp32-android-bridge-workflow template with esp32_firmware_path set to ./firmware”
• “Add a prompt for Python FastAPI best practices”

Prompts added or changed through add_prompt / update_prompt live in memory and are lost when the server restarts. A prompt that must last is a JSON file under data/prompts/ with a stable id, added by pull request.

HTTP Mode

The same prompts are also available as a JSON API, for clients that don’t speak MCP:

pnpm build
PORT=3003 PROMPTS_DIR=$PWD/data/prompts pnpm start:http
# or: npx mcp-prompts-http, or the default Docker image (port 3003)

curl -s -X POST localhost:3003/v1/prompts/claudepy-esp32-android-bridge-workflow/apply \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"variables":{"esp32_firmware_path":"./firmware"}}'

Invalid input answers 400, unknown prompts 404. Set CORS_ORIGIN to allow browser clients. Changes made over HTTP live in memory, like those made over MCP; the files in data/prompts are not rewritten.

Orchestrating Projects

Use the orchestrate script to analyze entire projects:

./scripts/orchestrate-project.sh ~/projects/mia analyze
./scripts/orchestrate-project.sh ~/projects/esp32-bpm-detector review

This automatically:

1. Detects project type
2. Loads appropriate main agent
3. Spawns specialized subagents
4. Runs comprehensive analysis
5. Returns structured results

MCP Tools

Prompts Organization

data/prompts/
├── main-agents/          # 9 project orchestration templates
│   ├── main_agent_python_backend.json
│   ├── main_agent_cpp_backend.json
│   ├── main_agent_android_app.json
│   ├── main_agent_embedded_iot.json
│   ├── main_agent_web_frontend.json
│   └── ...                # also web backend, DevOps, multiplatform IoT, generic
│
├── subagents/            # architecture, security and test analysts
├── cognitive/            # 7 layers: perception, episodes, semantic, procedures,
│                         #   evaluation, meta, transfer
├── embedded/, cross-platform/, home-automation/, mia-car/, voice-intelligence/
│                         # domain knowledge
├── claudepy-workflows/, openclaw/
│                         # agent workflow and routing prompts
└── learned/              # prompts produced by the learning loop

Architecture

Two layers. The full server (src/mcp/mcp-server.ts) is hexagonal: the domain in src/core (entities, events, services and the repository and event-bus ports) knows nothing about storage or transport, and storage adapters plug in behind the ports — file and in-memory in src/adapters; the earlier DynamoDB, S3 and SQS adapters, Lambda handlers and CDK stack are kept in archive/aws and cdk/. The standalone server that pnpm start and the npm binary run is the small one below: it reads the JSON files in PROMPTS_DIR directly and speaks MCP over stdio.

┌──────────────────────────────┐
│   MCP Server (stdio)         │
│   ├── list_prompts           │
│   ├── get_prompt             │
│   ├── add_prompt             │
│   └── ...                    │
├──────────────────────────────┤
│   File Storage               │
│   └── data/prompts/*.json    │
└──────────────────────────────┘

Orchestration:
  orchestrate-project.sh
    ↓ loads prompts
    ↓ builds agent config
    ↓ calls claude CLI
  Actual agent execution

Development

pnpm install       # Install dependencies
pnpm build         # Build TypeScript
pnpm dev           # Watch mode
pnpm test          # Run tests
pnpm orchestrate   # Test orchestration

Enterprise Deployment

For enterprise features (AWS, multi-tenant, payments), see archive/aws/README.md.

Most users don’t need this - the local MCP server is sufficient.

License

MIT