Kuzu MCP server

Kuzu MCP Server provides a Model Context Protocol server that allows Large Language Models to inspect and query Kuzu database schemas. It enables LLMs to interact with your Kuzu databases by examining their structure and executing Cypher queries directly.

Features

Available Tools

• getSchema: Retrieves the complete schema of your Kuzu database

  • Returns all nodes, relationships tables, and their properties
  • Requires no input parameters

• query: Executes Cypher queries against your Kuzu database

  • Requires input: cypher (string) containing the Cypher query to execute

Available Prompts

• generateKuzuCypher: Creates a Cypher query from natural language
  • Requires input: question (string) containing your query in natural language

Installation

Docker Installation (Recommended)

1. Edit the Claude Desktop configuration file:

   • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
   • Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

2. Add the following configuration to the mcpServers object:

{
  "mcpServers": {
      "kuzu": {
          "command": "docker",
          "args": [
              "run",
              "-v",
              "{Absolute Path to the Kuzu database}:/database",
              "--rm",
              "-i",
              "kuzudb/mcp-server"
          ]
      }
  }
}

3. Replace {Absolute Path to the Kuzu database} with the actual path to your Kuzu database
4. Restart Claude Desktop

Node.js Installation

1. Install dependencies:

npm install

2. Edit the Claude Desktop configuration file:

   • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
   • Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

3. Add the following configuration to the mcpServers object:

{
  "mcpServers": {
      "kuzu": {
          "command": "node",
          "args": [
              "{Absolute Path to this repository}/index.js",
              "{Absolute Path to the Kuzu database}",
          ]
      }
  }
}

4. Replace placeholders with actual paths:

   • {Absolute Path to this repository}: Path to the kuzu-mcp-server repository
   • {Absolute Path to the Kuzu database}: Path to your Kuzu database

5. Restart Claude Desktop

Configuration Options

Read-Only Mode

You can run the server in read-only mode to prevent database modifications:

1. Add the KUZU_READ_ONLY environment variable to your configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
      "kuzu": {
          "command": "docker",
          "args": [
              "run",
              "-v",
              "{Absolute Path to the Kuzu database}:/database",
              "-e",
              "KUZU_READ_ONLY=true",
              "--rm",
              "-i",
              "kuzudb/mcp-server"
          ]
      }
  }
}

2. When enabled, any query that attempts to modify the database will return an error

How to install this MCP server

For Claude Code

To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:

claude mcp add-json "kuzu" '{"command":"docker","args":["run","-v","{Absolute Path to the Kuzu database}:/database","--rm","-i","kuzudb/mcp-server"]}'

See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.

For Cursor

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.

Adding an MCP server to Cursor globally

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": {
        "kuzu": {
            "command": "docker",
            "args": [
                "run",
                "-v",
                "{Absolute Path to the Kuzu database}:/database",
                "--rm",
                "-i",
                "kuzudb/mcp-server"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Adding an MCP server to a project

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.

How to use the MCP server

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.

For Claude Desktop

To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:

1. Find your configuration file:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
• Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

2. Add this to your configuration file:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "kuzu": {
            "command": "docker",
            "args": [
                "run",
                "-v",
                "{Absolute Path to the Kuzu database}:/database",
                "--rm",
                "-i",
                "kuzudb/mcp-server"
            ]
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect