Watson Discovery MCP server

This MCP server enables secure interaction with Watson Discovery, allowing AI assistants to list projects, list collections within projects, and execute natural language queries. It serves as a bridge between AI assistants and Watson Discovery's content.

Configuration

Before using the MCP Watson Discovery server, you need to set the following environment variables:

WATSONX_DISCOVERY_APIKEY=
WATSONX_DISCOVERY_URL=
WATSONX_DISCOVERY_VERSION=2023-03-31

Installation and Usage

Using with Claude Desktop

To integrate with Claude Desktop, add the following to your claude_desktop_config.json file:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "watsonx-discovery": {
            "command": "wsl.exe",
            "args": [
                "bash",
                "-c",
                "/home/morpheus/.local/bin/uv --directory /home/morpheus/workspace/mcp-discovery run 'server/__main__.py'"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Running as a Standalone Server

To run the server independently:

# Install dependencies
uv install 

# Run the server
uv run server/__main__.py

Features

The MCP Watson Discovery server provides the following capabilities:

• List available projects - View all accessible Watson Discovery projects
• List available collections in a project - See collections within a specific project
• Execute NLP queries in a collection - Perform natural language processing queries against your Watson Discovery collections

These features allow AI assistants to access and search through information stored in Watson Discovery in a secure and structured manner.

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 "watsonx-discovery" '{"command":"wsl.exe","args":["bash","-c","/home/morpheus/.local/bin/uv --directory /home/morpheus/workspace/mcp-discovery run 'server/__main__.py'"]}'

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": {
        "watsonx-discovery": {
            "command": "wsl.exe",
            "args": [
                "bash",
                "-c",
                "/home/morpheus/.local/bin/uv --directory /home/morpheus/workspace/mcp-discovery run 'server/__main__.py'"
            ]
        }
    }
}

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": {
        "watsonx-discovery": {
            "command": "wsl.exe",
            "args": [
                "bash",
                "-c",
                "/home/morpheus/.local/bin/uv --directory /home/morpheus/workspace/mcp-discovery run 'server/__main__.py'"
            ]
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect