Cook (Cooklang recipes) MCP server

cook-mcp

An MCP server that gives your AI agent (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, or any other MCP client) access to your Cooklang recipe collection. Recipes stay as plain .cook and .menu files in a folder you own. The agent can read, search, validate and write them, build shopping lists, track a pantry and render reports, all locally and without an account. With a cook.md login it can also compute nutrition and import recipes from photos and social links.

Install

Claude Code:

claude mcp add cook -- npx -y @cookmd/mcp

Any client that takes an mcpServers config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cook": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@cookmd/mcp"],
      "env": { "COOK_RECIPES_DIR": "/path/to/recipes" }
    }
  }
}

If COOKRECIPESDIR is not set, the server uses the workspace folder your client shares, or the folder the client was started in. See How the recipe folder is chosen.

Supported platforms: macOS (arm64, x64) and Linux (x64, arm64, glibc 2.35 or newer). There are no Windows builds yet.

Setup notes for specific clients: https://cook.md/help/mcp

Claude Code plugin

Claude Code users can install the cooklang plugin instead of adding the server by hand. It lives in cooklang/cooklang-skills and bundles this server plus the skills below:

/plugin marketplace add cooklang/cooklang-skills
/plugin install cooklang@cooklang-skills

The plugin starts the server with your Claude Code project folder as the recipe root, and Claude Code picks the right skill from what you ask ("plan dinners for next week", "is this recipe valid?"). If you already added the server with claude mcp add cook, remove that entry so you don't run two copies.

The skills (also served by this server as cooklang://skills/ resources):

skills/ in this repo is the canonical copy; the plugin repo syncs from it. Each skill is skills//SKILL.md.

Tools

Free (local, no login)

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.