Word Counter MCP server

The MCP Word Counter server provides tools for analyzing text documents, including counting words and characters. It helps large language models perform text analysis tasks by exposing simple document statistics functionality without requiring the model to directly access document content.

Installation

Install the MCP Word Counter using npm:

npm install mcp-wordcounter

Usage

Running as a CLI Tool

You can run the MCP Word Counter directly from the command line:

npx mcp-wordcounter

Integrating with Claude Desktop

To use the MCP Word Counter with Claude Desktop, add the following configuration to your claude_desktop_config.json file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-wordcounter": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-wordcounter"],
      "alwaysAllow": ["analyze_text"]
    }
  }
}

Available Tools

analyze_text

The analyze_text tool counts words and characters in a text document.

Parameters:

• filePath (string, required): Path to the text file to analyze

Returns:

• Word count
• Character count (including spaces)
• Character count (excluding spaces)

Example response:

{
  "content": [{
    "type": "text",
    "text": "Analysis Results:\n• Word count: 150\n• Character count (including spaces): 842\n• Character count (excluding spaces): 702"
  }]
}

Features

The MCP Word Counter provides these key features:

• Count words in documents
• Count total characters (including spaces)
• Count characters excluding spaces
• Process files directly without exposing content to LLMs

How to add this MCP server to 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 > 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"
            ]
        }
    }
}

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 explictly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.