hyper-mcp

A fast, secure MCP server that extends its capabilities through WebAssembly plugins.

What is it?

hyper-mcp makes it easy to add AI capabilities to your applications. It works with Claude Desktop, Cursor IDE, and other MCP-compatible apps. Write plugins in your favorite language, distribute them through container registries, and run them anywhere - from cloud to edge.

Features

• Write plugins in any language that compiles to WebAssembly
• Distribute plugins via standard OCI registries (like Docker Hub)
• Built on Extism for rock-solid plugin support
• Lightweight enough for resource-constrained environments
• Deploy anywhere: serverless, edge, mobile, IoT devices
• Cross-platform compatibility out of the box

Security

Built with security-first mindset:

• Sandboxed plugins that can't access your system without permission
• Memory-safe execution with resource limits
• Secure plugin distribution through container registries
• Fine-grained access control for host functions
• OCI plugin images are signed at publish time and verified at load time with sigstore.

Getting Started

1. Create your config file:
   • Linux: $HOME/.config/hyper-mcp/config.json
   • Windows: {FOLDERID_RoamingAppData}. Eg: C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Roaming
   • macOS: $HOME/Library/Application Support/hyper-mcp/config.json

{
  "plugins": [
    {
      "name": "time",
      "path": "oci://ghcr.io/tuananh/time-plugin:latest"
    },
    {
      "name": "qr-code",
      "path": "oci://ghcr.io/tuananh/qrcode-plugin:latest"
    },
    {
      "name": "hash",
      "path": "oci://ghcr.io/tuananh/hash-plugin:latest"
    },
    {
      "name": "myip",
      "path": "oci://ghcr.io/tuananh/myip-plugin:latest",
      "runtime_config": {
        "allowed_hosts": ["1.1.1.1"]
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "fetch",
      "path": "oci://ghcr.io/tuananh/fetch-plugin:latest",
      "runtime_config": {
        "allowed_hosts": ["*"]
      }
    }
  ]
}

2. Start the server:

$ hyper-mcp

By default, logs will go into state_dir on Linux or data_local_dir on macOS & Windows.

If you're loading unsigned OCI plugin, you will need to use --insecure-skip-signature flag.

Using with Cursor IDE

You can configure hyper-mcp either globally for all projects or specifically for individual projects.

1. For project-scope configuration, create .cursor/mcp.json in your project root:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hyper-mcp": {
      "command": "/path/to/hyper-mcp",
      "args": [""]
    }
  }
}

2. Set up hyper-mcp in Cursor's settings:

3. Start using tools through chat:

Available Plugins

We maintain several example plugins to get you started:

• time: Get current time and do time calculations (Rust)
• qr-code: Generate QR codes (Rust)
• hash: Generate various types of hashes (Rust)
• myip: Get your current IP (Rust)
• fetch: Basic webpage fetching (Rust)
• crypto-price: Get cryptocurrency prices (Go)
• fs: File system operations (Rust)
• github: GitHub plugin (Go)
• eval-py: Evaluate Python code with RustPython (Rust)
• arxiv: Search & download arXiv papers (Rust)
• memory: Let you store & retrive memory, powered by SQLite (Rust)
• sqlite: Interact with SQLite (Rust)
• crates-io: Get crate general information, check crate latest version (Rust)
• gomodule: Get Go modules info, version (Rust)

Community-built plugins

• hackernews: This plugin connects to the Hacker News API to fetch the current top stories and display them with their titles, scores, authors, and URLs.
• release-monitor-id: This plugin retrieves project ID from release-monitoring.org, which helps track versions of released software.
• yahoo-finance: This plugin connects to the Yahoo Finance API to provide stock prices (OHLCV) based on a company name or ticker symbol.

Creating Plugins

Check out our example plugins to learn how to build your own.

To publish a plugin:

# example how to build with rust
FROM rust:1.86-slim AS builder

RUN rustup target add wasm32-wasip1 && \
    rustup component add rust-std --target wasm32-wasip1

WORKDIR /workspace
COPY . .
RUN cargo fetch
RUN cargo build --release --target wasm32-wasip1

# copy wasm to final image
FROM scratch
WORKDIR /
COPY --from=builder /workspace/target/wasm32-wasip1/release/your-plugin.wasm /plugin.wasm

Then build and push:

docker build -t your-registry/plugin-name .
docker push your-registry/plugin-name

License

Apache 2.0

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