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First experience

MCPBay, through its CLI, allows the management of contexts for use within projects.

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mcpb is the name of the instrument we utilize to manipulate the contexts we choose to use on our AI tools.

Initialize a new project​

To start installing and using your contexts, its required to initialize the default setting of mcpb. You can do it automatically running the following command in your terminal:

mcpb init
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mcpb init --with-claude can be used to make Claude Code correctly work with our mcp.

This will create a file called mcp-config.json, and, if doesn't exists, another one called AGENTS.md with the required instructions to make the contexts work optimally.

Install a context​

To feed your LLM with contexts and new capabilities, you need to install them. An example to do this is the following command:

mcpb add typescript-best-practices@latest

Once finished, it will download and place the whole context inside the folder context_modules if it wasn't modified on the configuration file.

Use installed contexts​

The wire between installed contexts and your favourite AI tool is the MCPBay MCP Server. It must be connected. Because every AI tool is unique, we'll explain the automatic and manual installation of MCPBay MCP Server.

Automatic installation of MCPBay MCP Server​

Automatic installation on ClaudeCode​

To automatically connect the MCP to ClaudeCode you must run the following command on your terminal:

mcpb install-mcp claudecode

After this you can start using Claude Code as normal and it will have access to installed contexts.

Manual installation​

MCPBay MCP is easily installable to any AI tool that supports MCPs.

Commonly, to install your MCP to an AI tool by yourself is needed to modify some .json file. For Claude Code, depending of the scope, you may need to update the mcpServers member inside of the .claude.json or, .mcp.json file.

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The name of the MCP (mcpb) can be changed without problems.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcpb": {
      "command": "mcpb",
      "args": ["start-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Once installed you can start using the installed contexts.