Mathematica Documentation MCP server
LocalAbout Mathematica Documentation MCP server
Mathematica Documentation MCP server lets users query documentation from a local Mathematica installation or callable wolframscript. It also lists symbols and functions available in packages.
Key features
- 01Look up built-in function documentation
- 02Query package and add-on functions
- 03List symbols in a package
- 04Configure a custom wolframscript path
Use cases
- 01Check Mathematica function usage
- 02Find documentation for package functions
- 03Explore a package's available symbols
MCP support
It exposes documentation lookup and package-symbol listing as tools for MCP clients, using the local Mathematica installation or wolframscript.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
We haven’t collected a package or remote endpoint for this server. Follow the instructions in the project README.
Tools
Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.
Details
From the project READMEMathematica Documentation MCP server
General & Usage
Made with mcp-python-sdk
Important
if you are still using FastMCP version of this mcp server, please consider pull this repo again and update to newer versions as FastMCP is already deprecated.
Requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt and have Mathematica installed (or at least wolframscript callable from terminal, e.g. via free wolfram engine for developers).
Run mcp dev path/to/mcp-mma-doc.py to initialize the server.
Run mcp install path/to/mcp-mma-doc.py to install to claude or add following to claude/cline config:
"mathematica-docs": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"run",
"--with",
"mcp",
"mcp",
"run",
"/path/to/mcp-mma-doc.py"
]
}
Note
Currently using
uvwithmcpseems to break certain Linux/macOS version of Claude-desktop, you might need to set as:"mathematica-docs": { "command": "/path/to/mcp", "args": [ "run", "/path/to/mcp-mma-doc.py" ] }instead, with
/path/to/mcpgot from runningwhich mcpin terminal
Custom wolframscript install path
If you need custom path to wolframscript, or it is not in system path, you can set via environmental variable by
export WOLFRAMSCRIPT_PATH="/usr/bin/wolframscript"
or set as an env key in mcp config
"mathematica-docs": {
"command": ...,
"args": ....
"env": {
"WOLFRAMSCRIPT_PATH": "/usr/bin/wolframscript"
}
}
Tools
The plugin provides the following commands:
- get_docs: support factory functions, function via an addon, and function via a package.
- Basic usage: get_docs("Plot")
- With package: get_docs("WeightSystem", packages=["LieART"])
- With addon: get_docs("FCFeynmanParametrize", packages=["FeynCalc"], load_addons=["FeynArts"])
- list_package_symbols: list all symbols/functions in a package.
- Basic usage: list_package_symbols("FeynCalc")
Known issues
- If you see things like
INFO Processing request of type __init__.py:431 ListToolsRequestin cline, you can ignore them as this will not affect it from working, this is because cline parse tool list together with console debug infos, and current python-sdk cannot disable console messages. This will not affect any function calling part other than seeing this warning. - Some MMA docs may contain complex styling format, and is not easy to remove with simple regex, your llm may be influenced by this, please instruct it to ignore the styling format and write in InputForm only.
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