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AI Distiller

AI Distiller is an MCP server that adds productivity tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. AI Distiller is ultra‑fast, open‑source tool for intelligently extracting only the essential public APIs, types, and structure from large… It has 172 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y @janreges/ai-distiller-mcp.

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Install AI Distiller

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-distiller": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@janreges/ai-distiller-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio ai-distiller -- npx -y @janreges/ai-distiller-mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ai-distiller": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@janreges/ai-distiller-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "ai-distiller": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@janreges/ai-distiller-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About AI Distiller

Note: This is the very first version of this tool. We would be very grateful for any feedback in the form of a discussion or by creating an issue on GitHub. Thank you\!

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How do I install the AI Distiller MCP server?

Add the command npx -y @janreges/ai-distiller-mcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is AI Distiller free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is AI Distiller actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on May 25, 2026. The latest release is v1.4.0, published May 25, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.