mcp-server-qdrant: A Qdrant MCP server

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol that enables seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools. Whether you're building an AI-powered IDE, enhancing a chat interface, or creating custom AI workflows, MCP provides a standardized way to connect LLMs with the context they need.

This repository is an example of how to create a MCP server for Qdrant, a vector search engine.

Overview

An official Model Context Protocol server for keeping and retrieving memories in the Qdrant vector search engine. It acts as a semantic memory layer on top of the Qdrant database.

Components

Tools

1. qdrant-store
   • Store some information in the Qdrant database
   • Input:
     • information (string): Information to store
     • metadata (JSON): Optional metadata to store
     • collection_name (string): Name of the collection to store the information in. This field is required if there are no default collection name. If there is a default collection name, this field is not enabled.
   • Returns: Confirmation message
2. qdrant-find
   • Retrieve relevant information from the Qdrant database
   • Input:
     • query (string): Query to use for searching
     • collection_name (string): Name of the collection to store the information in. This field is required if there are no default collection name. If there is a default collection name, this field is not enabled.
   • Returns: Information stored in the Qdrant database as separate messages

Environment Variables

Configuration is done via environment variables. The only command-line argument is --transport, used to select the transport protocol.

[!NOTE] You cannot provide both QDRANT_URL and QDRANT_LOCAL_PATH at the same time.

FastMCP Environment Variables

Since mcp-server-qdrant is based on FastMCP, it also supports all the FastMCP environment variables. The most important ones are listed below:

[!NOTE] Server-specific settings use the FASTMCP_SERVER_ prefix. This may change in future versions.

Installation

Using uvx

When using uvx no specific installation is needed to directly run mcp-server-qdrant.

QDRANT_URL="http://localhost:6333" \
COLLECTION_NAME="my-collection" \
EMBEDDING_MODEL="sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2" \
uvx mcp-server-qdrant

Transport Protocols

The server supports different transport protocols that can be specified using the --transport flag:

QDRANT_URL="http://localhost:6333" \
COLLECTION_NAME="my-collection" \
uvx mcp-server-qdrant --transport sse

Supported transport protocols:

• stdio (default): Standard input/output transport, might only be used by local MCP clients
• sse: Server-Sent Events transport, perfect for remote clients
• streamable-http: Streamable HTTP transport, perfect for remote clients, more recent than SSE

The default transport is stdio if not specified.

When SSE transport is used, the server will listen on the specified port and wait for incoming connections. The default port is 8000, however it can be changed using the FASTMCP_SERVER_PORT environment variable.

QDRANT_URL="http://localhost:6333" \
COLLECTION_NAME="my-collection" \
FASTMCP_SERVER_PORT=1234 \
uvx mcp-server-qdrant --transport sse

Using Docker

A Dockerfile is available for building and running the MCP server:

# Build the container
docker build -t mcp-server-qdrant .

# Run the container
docker run -p 8000:8000 \
  -e FASTMCP_SERVER_HOST="0.0.0.0" \
  -e QDRANT_URL="http://your-qdrant-server:6333" \
  -e QDRANT_API_KEY="your-api-key" \
  -e COLLECTION_NAME="your-collection" \
  mcp-server-qdrant

[!TIP] Please note that we set FASTMCP_SERVER_HOST="0.0.0.0" to make the server listen on all network interfaces. This is necessary when running the server in a Docker container.

Installing via Smithery

To install Qdrant MCP Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx @smithery/cli install mcp-server-qdrant --client claude

Manual configuration of Claude Desktop

To use this server with the Claude Desktop app, add the following configuration to the "mcpServers" section of your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "qdrant": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": ["mcp-server-qdrant"],
    "env": {
      "QDRANT_URL": "https://xyz-example.eu-central.aws.cloud.qdrant.io:6333",
      "QDRANT_API_KEY": "your_api_key",
      "COLLECTION_NAME": "your-collection-name",
      "EMBEDDING_MODEL": "sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
    }
  }
}

For local Qdrant mode:

{
  "qdrant": {
    "command": "uvx",
    "args": ["mcp-server-qdrant"],
    "env": {
      "QDRANT_LOCAL_PATH": "/path/to/qdrant/database",
      "COLLECTION_NAME": "your-collection-name",
      "EMBEDDING_MODEL": "sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
    }
  }
}

This MCP server will automatically create a collection with the specified name if it doesn't exist.

By default, the server will use the sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 embedding model to encode memories. For the time being, only FastEmbed models are supported.

Support for other tools

This MCP server can be used with any MCP-compatible client. For example, you can use it with Cursor and VS Code, which provide built-in support for the Model Context Protocol.

Using with Cursor/Windsurf

You can configure this MCP server to work as a code search tool for Cursor or Windsurf by customizing the tool descriptions:

QDRANT_URL="http://localhost:6333" \
COLLECTION_NAME="code-snippets" \
TOOL_STORE_DESCRIPTION="Store reusable code snippets for later retrieval. \
The 'information' parameter should contain a natural language description of what the code does, \
while the actual code should be included in the 'metadata' parameter as a 'code' property. \
The value of 'metadata' is a Python dictionary with strings as keys. \
Use this whenever you generate some code snippet." \
TOOL_FIND_DESCRIPTION="Search for relevant code snippets based on natural language descriptions. \
The 'query' para