feat: document mcp-remote bridge for Claude Desktop HTTP connections - #46
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Claude Desktop's claude_desktop_config.json only supports stdio-based MCP server entries. Add documentation and a migration script for connecting to a running macOS-MCP HTTP server using mcp-remote as a stdio-to-HTTP bridge. This is especially useful when running multiple Claude Desktop instances (e.g. via Parall) against a single shared HTTP server, avoiding per- session process overhead and cold-start latency. Changes: - Add "Claude Desktop (connecting to an HTTP server)" integration section to README with mcp-remote config examples - Fix the OAuth section's Claude Desktop config example which used the unsupported "type": "http" format - Add scripts/stdio-to-http-reconfig.sh for bulk migration of Claude Desktop configs from stdio to HTTP Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
mcp-remotestdio-to-HTTP bridge pattern"type": "http"formatscripts/stdio-to-http-reconfig.sh— a migration script for bulk-reconfiguring Claude Desktop instances from stdio to HTTPContext
Claude Desktop's
claude_desktop_config.jsononly validates stdio-based MCP server entries. Entries using"type": "http"or"url"are silently skipped. Themcp-remotenpm package bridges this gap by wrapping an HTTP connection in a stdio process that Claude Desktop can manage normally.This is especially useful when running multiple Claude Desktop instances (e.g. via Parall) against a single shared
streamable-httpserver, avoiding per-session process overhead and cold-start latency.Test plan
mcp-remotebridge connects to a localstreamable-httpserverscripts/stdio-to-http-reconfig.sh --dry-runcorrectly detects config files