# ucp-mcp

> Reference MCP server for the Universal Context Package: serves UCP documents to any MCP-capable agent (Cursor, Claude Code, ...)

Record `ucp-mcp` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/ucp-mcp/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/ucp-mcp
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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/ucp-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Context OS Team
- version: 0.1.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: context, context-engineering, llm, mcp, ucp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:ucp-mcp

### Description (declared)

# ucp-mcp — reference MCP server for Universal Context Packages

Exposes UCP documents to any MCP-capable agent (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex,
Gemini CLI, …). This is the reference composition of the two protocols:

> **MCP is the pipe. UCP is what flows through it.**

The server watches a directory of `*.ucp.json` files and serves them through
three tools. Any producer (a context platform, a script, a CI job) can drop
packages into that directory; any agent connected to the server can consume
task context that is structured, provenance-backed, and token-budgeted.

## Install & run

```bash
pip install ucp-mcp
ucp-mcp --dir ./contexts        # or: UCP_DIR=./contexts ucp-mcp
```

Cursor / Claude Code configuration (`mcp.json`):

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ucp": {
      "command": "ucp-mcp",
      "args": ["--dir", "/path/to/contexts"]
    }
  }
}
```

## Tools

| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `list_contexts()` | Inventory: entity id, title, system, freshness for every available package |
| `get_context(entity)` | Full UCP JSON for an entity (by id, URL, or title fragment) |
| `get_context_markdown(entity, token_budget?)` | Canonical CommonMark rendering (SPEC §7), optionally truncated to a token budget by salience |

`entity` matching is forgiving: exact entity id (`PAY-482`), source URL, or a
case-insensitive title fragment.

## Why a directory of files?

This server is a *reference*, not a product. Its job is to demonstrate the
MCP+UCP composition end to end with zero infrastructure, so that:

- agent users can try UCP in one minute;
- producers see the contract they need to implement (a real producer replaces
  the directory with a live Context Builder, keeping the same tools).

## Development

```bash
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest
```

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.filesystem (0.802, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/ucp-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T14:23:40.867Z)

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