Getting Started

1. Create your config file:
   • Linux: $HOME/.config/hyper-mcp/config.json
   • Windows: {FOLDERID_RoamingAppData}\hyper-mcp\config.json. Eg: C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Roaming\hyper-mcp\config.json
   • macOS: $HOME/Library/Application Support/hyper-mcp/config.json

{
  "plugins": {
    "time": {
      "url": "oci://ghcr.io/hyper-mcp-rs/time-plugin:latest",
      "description": "Get current time and do time calculations"
    },
    "qr_code": {
      "url": "oci://ghcr.io/hyper-mcp-rs/qrcode-plugin:latest",
      "description": "Generate QR codes from text"
    },
    "hash": {
      "url": "oci://ghcr.io/hyper-mcp-rs/hash-plugin:latest"
    },
    "myip": {
      "url": "oci://ghcr.io/hyper-mcp-rs/myip-plugin:latest",
      "description": "Get your current public IP address",
      "runtime_config": {
        "allowed_hosts": ["1.1.1.1"]
      }
    },
    "fetch": {
      "url": "oci://ghcr.io/hyper-mcp-rs/fetch-plugin:latest",
      "runtime_config": {
        "allowed_hosts": ["*"],
        "memory_limit": "100 MB",
      }
    }
  }
}

📖 For detailed configuration options including authentication setup, runtime configuration, and advanced features, see RUNTIME_CONFIG.md

Supported URL schemes:

• oci:// - for OCI-compliant registries (like Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry, etc.) REQUIRES COSIGN
• file:// - for local files
• http:// or https:// - for remote files
• s3:// - for Amazon S3 objects (requires that you have your AWS credentials set up in the environment)

2. Start the server:

$ hyper-mcp

• Uses stdio transport protocol.
• If you want to debug, use RUST_LOG=debug.
• If you're loading unsigned OCI plugin, you need to set insecure_skip_signature flag or env var HYPER_MCP_INSECURE_SKIP_SIGNATURE to true

Running in SSE/streamable-http: To do this, wrap hyper-mcp in one of the many proxies that supports the network transports AND that creates an instance of hyper-mcp per client connection.

Output Logging

hyper-mcp automatically logs all output to daily rolling log files for debugging and monitoring purposes.

Log Location:

• Linux: $HOME/.config/hyper-mcp/logs/mcp-server.log
• Windows: {FOLDERID_RoamingAppData}\hyper-mcp\logs\mcp-server.log
• macOS: $HOME/Library/Application Support/hyper-mcp/logs/mcp-server.log

Custom Log Path:

You can override the default log directory by setting the HYPER_MCP_LOG_PATH environment variable:

export HYPER_MCP_LOG_PATH=/path/to/your/logs
hyper-mcp

Log Levels:

Control the verbosity of logs using the RUST_LOG environment variable:

# Info level (default)
RUST_LOG=info hyper-mcp

# Debug level (verbose, useful for troubleshooting)
RUST_LOG=debug hyper-mcp

# Warn level (only warnings and errors)
RUST_LOG=warn hyper-mcp

Features:

• Daily log rotation (new file created each day)
• Non-blocking writes to prevent performance impact
• Includes timestamps, line numbers, and target information
• Safe for use with stdio transport (logs don't interfere with MCP communication)

Using with Cursor IDE

You can configure hyper-mcp either globally for all projects or specifically for individual projects.

1. For project-scope configuration, create .cursor/mcp.json in your project root:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hyper-mcp": {
      "command": "/path/to/hyper-mcp"
    }
  }
}

2. Set up hyper-mcp in Cursor's settings:

3. Start using tools through chat:

Available Plugins

We maintain several plugins to get you started:

V1 Plugins

These plugins use the v1 plugin interface. While still supported, new plugins should use the v2 interface.

• time: Get current time and do time calculations (Rust)
• qr_code: Generate QR codes (Rust)
• hash: Generate various types of hashes (Rust)
• myip: Get your current IP (Rust)
• crypto_price: Get cryptocurrency prices (Go)
• fs: File system operations (Rust)
• github: GitHub plugin (Go)
• eval_py: Evaluate Python code with RustPython (Rust)
• arxiv: Search & download arXiv papers (Rust)
• memory: Let you store & retrieve memory, powered by SQLite (Rust)
• sqlite: Interact with SQLite (Rust)
• crates-io: Get crate general information, check crate latest version (Rust)
• gomodule: Get Go modules info, version (Rust)
• qdrant: keeping & retrieving memories to Qdrant vector search engine (Rust)
• gitlab: GitLab plugin (Rust)
• meme_generator: Meme generator (Rust)
• think: Think tool(Rust)
• maven: Maven plugin (Rust)
• serper: Serper web search plugin (Rust)

V2 Plugins

These plugins use the v2 plugin interface. New plugins should use this interface.

• context7: Lookup library documentation (Rust)
• defuddle: Get the main content of any page as Markdown (Rust)
• fetch: Basic webpage fetching (Rust)
• monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI (Rust)
• rstime: Get current time and do time calculations (Rust)

Community-built plugins

• hackernews: This plugin connects to the Hacker News API to fetch the current top stories and display them with their titles, scores, authors, and URLs.
• release-monitor-id: This plugin retrieves project ID from release-monitoring.org, which helps track versions of released software.
• yahoo-finance: This plugin connects to the Yahoo Finance API to provide stock prices (OHLCV) based on a company name or ticker symbol.
• rand16: This plugen generates random 16 bytes buffer and provides it in base64uri format - very usable for symmetric cryptography online.

Documentation

• Built-in Tools Reference - Documentation for the hyper_mcp-* tools including:
  • hyper_mcp-list_plugins — list all loaded plugins
  • hyper_mcp-load_plugin — dynamically load a plugin at runtime
  • hyper_mcp-unload_plugin — dynamically unload a plugin at runtime
• Runtime Configuration Guide - Comprehensive guide to configuration options including:
  • Authentication setup (Basic, Token, and Keyring)
  • Plugin runtime configuration
  • Security considerations and best practices
  • Platform-specific keyring setup for macOS, Linux, and Windows
  • Troubleshooting authentication issues
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