The SQLite MCP Server allows you to interact with SQLite databases through the Model Context Protocol, providing database operations, data analysis capabilities, and automatic business insight generation. It serves as a bridge between AI assistants and SQLite database functionality.
You can add the SQLite MCP server to your Claude Desktop configuration using either UV or Docker.
Add the server to your claude_desktop_config.json
file:
"mcpServers": {
"sqlite": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"parent_of_servers_repo/servers/src/sqlite",
"run",
"mcp-server-sqlite",
"--db-path",
"~/test.db"
]
}
}
Add the server to your claude_desktop_config.json
file:
"mcpServers": {
"sqlite": {
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"--rm",
"-i",
"-v",
"mcp-test:/mcp",
"mcp/sqlite",
"--db-path",
"/mcp/test.db"
]
}
}
The server provides a dynamic resource:
topic
argument specifying the business domain to analyzeThe server provides tools for common database operations:
read_query
query
(string) containing a SELECT SQL statementwrite_query
query
(string) containing the SQL modification statement{ affected_rows: number }
create_table
query
(string) containing a CREATE TABLE SQL statementlist_tables
describe-table
table_name
(string) specifying the table to describeappend_insight
insight
(string) containing a business insight discovered from data analysisYou can test the server using the MCP inspector:
uv add "mcp[cli]"
mcp dev src/mcp_server_sqlite/server.py:wrapper
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 > MCP and click "Add new global MCP server".
When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json
file will be opened and you can add your server like this:
{
"mcpServers": {
"cursor-rules-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"cursor-rules-mcp"
]
}
}
}
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 explictly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.