Hide MCP server

A MCP server for Hide – headless IDE.

Components

Tools

The server implements two tools adapted from Anthropic's computer-use-demo:

Text Editor

For viewing and editing files. Features file viewing with line numbers, directory listing, file creation, string replacement with exact matching, line insertion, and edit history.

Bash

A persistent bash shell with support for common Linux/Python packages, background processes and automatic output truncation.

Quickstart

Install

Claude Desktop

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Development/Unpublished Servers Configuration

"mcpServers": {
    "hide-mcp": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "/path/to/hide-mcp",
        "run",
        "hide-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }

Published Servers Configuration

"mcpServers": {
    "hide-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "hide-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }

Development

Building and Publishing

To prepare the package for distribution:

1. Sync dependencies and update lockfile:

uv sync

2. Build package distributions:

uv build

This will create source and wheel distributions in the dist/ directory.

3. Publish to PyPI:

uv publish

Note: You'll need to set PyPI credentials via environment variables or command flags:

• Token: --token or UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN
• Or username/password: --username/UV_PUBLISH_USERNAME and --password/UV_PUBLISH_PASSWORD

Packaging

To package the service into a standalone executable:

uv run pyinstaller hide-mcp.spec

This will create a standalone executable in the dist/ directory.

Debugging

Since MCP servers run over stdio, debugging can be challenging. For the best debugging

experience, we strongly recommend using the MCP Inspector.

You can launch the MCP Inspector via [npm](https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm) with this command:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory /path/to/hide-mcp run hide-mcp

Upon launching, the Inspector will display a URL that you can access in your browser to begin debugging.