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Claude Flow

Claude Flow is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. AI orchestration with hive-mind swarms, neural networks, and 87 MCP tools for enterprise dev. It has 74,016 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y claude-flow.

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Install Claude Flow

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "claude-flow": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "claude-flow"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "your-value",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "your-value",
        "FLOW_NEXUS_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your-value --env GITHUB_TOKEN=your-value --env FLOW_NEXUS_API_KEY=your-value --transport stdio claude-flow -- npx -y claude-flow

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "claude-flow": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "claude-flow"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "your-value",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "your-value",
        "FLOW_NEXUS_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "anthropic_api_key",
      "description": "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "github_token",
      "description": "GITHUB_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "flow_nexus_api_key",
      "description": "FLOW_NEXUS_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "claude-flow": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "claude-flow"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "${input:anthropic_api_key}",
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": "${input:github_token}",
        "FLOW_NEXUS_API_KEY": "${input:flow_nexus_api_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
ANTHROPIC_API_KEYsecretNoAnthropic API key for Claude AI models
CLAUDE_FLOW_MODENoOperation mode: development, production, or test
CLAUDE_FLOW_MEMORY_PATHNoPath for persistent memory storage
CLAUDE_FLOW_MAX_AGENTSNoMaximum number of concurrent agents
CLAUDE_FLOW_PORTNoMCP server port
GITHUB_TOKENsecretNoGitHub personal access token for repository operations
FLOW_NEXUS_API_KEYsecretNoFlow Nexus cloud platform API key

About Claude Flow

An agent meta-harness for Claude Code and Codex. Start in Claude Code with core tools, the visual console and runtime mods. Requires Claude Code 2.1.287 or later. Run inside Claude Code:

  • swarm
  • agentic-ai
  • agentic-framework
  • agentic-workflow
  • autonomous-agents
  • codex
  • mcp-server
  • multi-agent
  • ai-assistant
  • multi-agent-systems

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What is Claude Flow?

Claude Flow is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. AI orchestration with hive-mind swarms, neural networks, and 87 MCP tools for enterprise dev. It has 74,016 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y claude-flow. The source code is at github.com/ruvnet/ruflo.

How do I install the Claude Flow MCP server?

Add the command npx -y claude-flow 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 Claude Flow free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, GITHUB_TOKEN and FLOW_NEXUS_API_KEY) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.

Is Claude Flow actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 7, 2026. The latest release is v3.54.0, published Oct 7, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.