📌Overview

Purpose: The Hide MCP server is designed to function as a headless Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for efficient file management and execution of commands.

Overview: This server leverages tools derived from Anthropic's computer-use demonstration to facilitate a powerful coding environment. It includes a user-friendly text editor for code management and a versatile Bash shell to execute scripts and commands seamlessly.

Key Features:

Text Editor: Provides a robust interface for viewing and editing files, complete with features like line numbering, directory listing, file creation, and edit history for comprehensive file management.
Bash Shell: Offers a persistent Bash environment with support for common Linux and Python packages, along with capabilities for running background processes and automatic output truncation for improved command handling.

Hide MCP server

A MCP server for Hide – headless IDE.

Components

Tools

The server implements two tools adapted from Anthropic's computer-use-demo:

Text Editor

For viewing and editing files. Features include file viewing with line numbers, directory listing, file creation, string replacement with exact matching, line insertion, and edit history.

Bash

A persistent bash shell with support for common Linux/Python packages, background processes, and automatic output truncation.

Quickstart

Install

Claude Desktop

Configuration file locations:

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Development/Unpublished Servers Configuration:

"mcpServers": {
  "hide-mcp": {
    "command": "uv",
    "args": [
      "--directory",
      "/path/to/hide-mcp",
      "run",
      "hide-mcp"
    ]
  }
}

Published Servers Configuration:

"mcpServers": {
  "hide-mcp": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": [
      "hide-mcp"
    ]
  }
}

Development

Building and Publishing

To prepare the package for distribution:

Sync dependencies and update lockfile:

uv sync

Build package distributions:

uv build

This creates source and wheel distributions in the dist/ directory.

Publish to PyPI:

uv publish

Set PyPI credentials via environment variables or command flags:

Token: --token or UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN
Or username/password: --username/UV_PUBLISH_USERNAME and --password/UV_PUBLISH_PASSWORD

Packaging

To package the service into a standalone executable:

uv run pyinstaller hide-mcp.spec

This creates a standalone executable in the dist/ directory.

Debugging

Since MCP servers run over stdio, debugging can be challenging. For the best experience, use the MCP Inspector.

You can launch the MCP Inspector via npm with this command:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory /path/to/hide-mcp run hide-mcp

Upon launching, the Inspector will display a URL that you can access in your browser to begin debugging.