Claude Code MCP
Claude Code as a one-shot MCP server: lets one agent invoke Claude Code as a tool inside another agent context. 1,272 GitHub stars and 1 commit on main in the last 30 days.
“Claude Code as a one-shot MCP server: lets one agent invoke Claude Code as a tool inside another agent context. 1,272 GitHub stars and 1 commit on main in the last 30 days. Tier 2 placement reflects the modest cadence; the high star count and agent-in-your-agent pattern carry editorial weight.”
INSTALL THIS SERVER
{
"mcpServers": {
"claude-code": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@steipete/claude-code-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"claude-code": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@steipete/claude-code-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"claude-code": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@steipete/claude-code-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"claude-code": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@steipete/claude-code-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"claude-code": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@steipete/claude-code-mcp"
]
}
}
}
4 TOOLS AVAILABLE
OUR ASSESSMENT
- 1,272 GitHub stars and MIT licence.
- Enables agent-in-agent patterns: one MCP-enabled agent (Cursor, Cline) calls Claude Code as a sub-agent for code-specific tasks.
- One-shot mode: each invocation is a fresh Claude Code session.
- Useful for workflows that orchestrate multiple AI tools.
- 1 commit on main in the last 30 days, modest cadence.
- Single-maintainer governance.
- Requires Claude Code installed and authenticated on the host.
- One-shot invocations carry a Claude API cost per call.
The MCP invokes Claude Code on the operator host with the operator Claude credentials. Scope the agent filesystem to the directories the sub-agent should access. One-shot mode means each invocation runs in a fresh session with no persistent state; sensitive data flowing through the prompts is processed by Anthropic per the Claude Code privacy policy.
Teams running multi-agent workflows where one agent (Cursor, Cline, Windsurf) calls Claude Code as a sub-agent for code-specific tasks; orchestration patterns that delegate code generation, review, or refactoring to a specialised sub-agent; experimentation with agent-in-agent compositions.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
ADOPTION METRICS
// Reading this1,272 stars on the steipete/claude-code-mcp repo. 1 commit on main in the last 30 days.
// Reading thisHigh-adoption agent-orchestration tool. Pairs with multi-agent workflows where Claude Code acts as the code sub-agent.
SOURCES & VERIFICATION
We don't take any single directory's word for it. Before scoring, we cross-reference 4 public MCP sources, install the server ourselves against the clients we cover, and record when we last re-verified.
The same server, 4 different lenses. We reconcile these signals into our editorial score, which is why our number sometimes diverges from a directory-aggregate star count.
| Source | Their rating | Their star count | Their downloads | Last synced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationSwitch This page | 3.8editorial | 1,272 | — | MAY 3, 2026 |
| PulseMCP | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
| MCP.so | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
| Glama | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
| Smithery | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
// Counts are directory-reported; we don't adjust them. Discrepancies usually come from different snapshot times or star-caching.
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