This MCP server connects a Reaper project to Claude Desktop, allowing you to ask questions about your Reaper projects and receive detailed information based on the project's data.
To get started with the Reaper MCP server, follow these steps:
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install .
setup/claude_desktop_config.json
uv
installation pathThe server provides two main tools:
find_reaper_projects
parse_reaper_project
To effectively use the Reaper MCP server with Claude:
You might ask questions like:
The tools will find your project, parse its data, and Claude will provide answers based on the extracted information.
To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:
claude mcp add-json "reaper" '{"command":"python","args":["-m","reaper_mcp_server"]}'
See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.
There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json
file so that it is available in all of your projects.
If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json
file.
To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".
When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json
file will be opened and you can add your server like this:
{
"mcpServers": {
"reaper": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"-m",
"reaper_mcp_server"
]
}
}
}
To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json
file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.
Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.
The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.
You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.
To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:
1. Find your configuration file:
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
2. Add this to your configuration file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"reaper": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"-m",
"reaper_mcp_server"
]
}
}
}
3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect