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Django Telescope

Django Telescope is an MCP server that adds developer tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Django applications, inspired by Laravel Boost. It has 114 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx django-telescope.

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Install Django Telescope

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

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "django-telescope": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "django-telescope"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=your-value --transport stdio django-telescope -- uvx django-telescope

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "django-telescope": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "django-telescope"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "django-telescope": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "django-telescope"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULEYesDjango settings module path (e.g., 'myproject.settings')

About Django Telescope

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for developing Django applications, inspired by Laravel Boost. This server exposes Django project information through MCP tools, enabling AI assistants to better understand and interact with Django codebases.

  • claude-code
  • django
  • mcp-server
  • opencode-ai

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How do I install the Django Telescope MCP server?

Add the command uvx django-telescope 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 Django Telescope free?

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

Is Django Telescope actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Jul 31, 2026. The latest release is v0.9.0, published Jul 31, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.