Tembo Cloud MCP server

This MCP server provides API access to the Tembo Cloud platform from within Claude Desktop. It allows you to interact with Tembo Cloud services directly through Claude, expanding the AI assistant's capabilities to work with your Tembo data.

Installation Options

Installing via Smithery

The easiest way to install the Tembo Cloud API for Claude Desktop is through Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @tembo-io/mcp-server-tembo --client claude

Manual Installation

If you prefer to install manually, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/tembo-io/mcp-server-tembo.git

2. Download Claude Desktop if you haven't already

3. Configure Claude Desktop to use the Tembo MCP server:

   • Open Claude Desktop
   • Click on settings
   • Navigate to the developer section
   • Load the following JSON configuration:

{
	"mcpServers": {
		"mcp-server-tembo": {
			"command": "node",
			"env": {
				"TEMBO_API_KEY": "your_tembo_api_key"
			},
			"args": ["/absolute/path/to/cloned/repo/mcp-server-tembo/dist/index.js"]
		}
	}
}

Important: You must replace your_tembo_api_key with an actual API key from Tembo Cloud. You can generate a Tembo Cloud API key here.

Usage

After installation, you can use the Tembo Cloud API directly through Claude Desktop. The MCP server enables Claude to:

• Query and interact with your Tembo Cloud resources
• Execute operations against your Tembo databases
• Access and manipulate your data within the Tembo ecosystem

To use the server, simply ask Claude to perform operations related to your Tembo Cloud resources, and it will utilize the MCP server to execute those requests using your configured API key.

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 "mcp-server-tembo" '{"command":"node","env":{"TEMBO_API_KEY":"your_tembo_api_key"},"args":["/absolute/path/to/cloned/repo/mcp-server-tembo/dist/index.js"]}'

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": {
        "mcp-server-tembo": {
            "command": "node",
            "env": {
                "TEMBO_API_KEY": "your_tembo_api_key"
            },
            "args": [
                "/absolute/path/to/cloned/repo/mcp-server-tembo/dist/index.js"
            ]
        }
    }
}

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": {
        "mcp-server-tembo": {
            "command": "node",
            "env": {
                "TEMBO_API_KEY": "your_tembo_api_key"
            },
            "args": [
                "/absolute/path/to/cloned/repo/mcp-server-tembo/dist/index.js"
            ]
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect