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Deft

Deft is an MCP server that adds messaging tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Self-hostable AGPL workspace where humans and AI agents share chat, tasks, knowledge, approvals, and MCP context. It has 727 GitHub stars, is released under the AGPL-3.0 license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/maneek21/deft.

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Install Deft

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

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "deft": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/maneek21/deft"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio deft -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/maneek21/deft

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "deft": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/maneek21/deft"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "deft": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/maneek21/deft"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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 Deft

Deft is a self-hostable, open-source workspace where people and AI agents share chat, tasks, knowledge, calendar context, approvals, and action history.

  • agent-platform
  • ai-agents
  • ai-workspace
  • byoa
  • chat
  • claude
  • drizzle-orm
  • hono
  • mcp
  • nextjs

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How do I install the Deft MCP server?

Add the command docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/maneek21/deft 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 Deft free?

The server is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Deft actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 22, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.