# descriptron-mcp

> The Descriptron programs as tools for Claude and any other MCP client

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/descriptron-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Alex R. Van Dam
- homepage: https://github.com/alexrvandam/Descriptron
- repository: https://github.com/alexrvandam/Descriptron
- version: 0.1.0
- license: Apache-2.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, model, context, protocol, morphometrics, species, description, taxonomy
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:descriptron-mcp

### Description (declared)

# descriptron-mcp

**The Descriptron programs as tools for Claude and any other MCP client.**

[MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) (Model Context Protocol) is an open
standard that lets an AI assistant call software directly. With this server
installed, you can ask Claude Desktop or Claude Code things like *"summarise
this COCO file, run the pipeline on it, and build the key"*, or *"write the
treatment for acok from the matrix and audit it"*, and it runs the same
Descriptron programs you would run from a shell.

The server runs **on your own computer** and reads **your own files**. Nothing
is uploaded anywhere except what the assistant itself reads through the tools.

## Install

Python ≥ 3.10 is needed for the server itself. The programs can run in a
different environment. See *Configuration* below.

**Now.** Install the analysis package from PyPI, then the server from GitHub
(until the server is on PyPI too):

```bash
python -m venv descriptron-mcp-env
source descriptron-mcp-env/bin/activate        # Windows: descriptron-mcp-env\Scripts\activate

pip install descriptron-core
pip install "git+https://github.com/alexrvandam/Descriptron#subdirectory=packages/descriptron-mcp"

descriptron-mcp --check                        # shows what it found
```

For the GPU programs (detectors, SAM2-PAL, DINOLand) also
`pip install descriptron-vision`.

**Later (from PyPI):**

```bash
pip install descriptron-mcp            # analysis programs (CPU)
pip install "descriptron-mcp[vision]"  # + detectors, SAM2-PAL, DINOLand (GPU)
```

**With Docker instead** (no Python setup; includes the GPU programs):

```bash
claude mcp add descriptron -- docker run -i --rm --gpus all \
  --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" -v "$HOME:$HOME" \
  ghcr.io/alexrvandam/descriptron:2.0.3 mcp
```

Without an NVIDIA GPU (e.g. on a Mac), leave out `--gpus all`: Docker refuses to start
with it, and everything except the GPU programs works the same.
`-v "$HOME:$HOME"` makes your files appear inside the container a…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.package-management (0.768, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.745, derived)
- dev.terminal (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/descriptron-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-27T16:24:51.048Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/descriptron-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/descriptron-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:descriptron-mcp