CmdVault ships a standalone cmdvault_mcp binary that exposes the same safe tool set the built-in assistant uses - search/create recipes, list ports, check command safety - as a Model Context Protocol server over stdio. Any MCP client can drive CmdVault directly this way, including Claude Code and Claude Desktop.

The MCP Server panel in the app shows a ready-to-paste command for your machine, shaped like this:

claude mcp add --transport stdio cmdvault -- "/path/to/cmdvault_mcp" --db "/path/to/cmdvault.db"

For Claude Desktop, the panel also gives you a ready-to-paste mcpServers.cmdvault JSON block for your config file.