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Word MCP Live

Word MCP Live is an MCP server that adds productivity tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Live Microsoft Word editing via MCP — tracked changes, undo, comments, 40+ tools. It has 241 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with uvx word-mcp-live.

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Install Word MCP Live

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

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "word-mcp-live": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "word-mcp-live"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_AUTHOR": "your-value",
        "MCP_AUTHOR_INITIALS": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env MCP_AUTHOR=your-value --env MCP_AUTHOR_INITIALS=your-value --transport stdio word-mcp-live -- uvx word-mcp-live

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "word-mcp-live": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "word-mcp-live"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_AUTHOR": "your-value",
        "MCP_AUTHOR_INITIALS": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "word-mcp-live": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "word-mcp-live"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_AUTHOR": "your-value",
        "MCP_AUTHOR_INITIALS": "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
MCP_AUTHORNoAuthor name shown on tracked changes and comments (default: AI Assistant)
MCP_AUTHOR_INITIALSNoAuthor initials shown on comments (default: AI)

About Word MCP Live

The only MCP server that edits Word documents while they're open Live editing · Tracked changes · Per-action undo · 124 tools · Cross-platform

  • ai
  • claude
  • com-automation
  • cursor
  • document-editing
  • docx
  • llm
  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • microsoft-word

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How do I install the Word MCP Live MCP server?

Add the command uvx word-mcp-live 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 Word MCP Live free?

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

Is Word MCP Live actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 6, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.