About Tiny Chat
Tiny Chat is an LLM chat application with RAG and a database, with a web interface designed for Japanese users. It also provides an MCP server and an OpenAI Chat API-compatible RAG server.
Key features
- 01RAG chat
- 02Database-only mode
- 03Streamlit web interface
- 04OpenAI Chat API RAG server
Use cases
- 01Retrieving database content through chat
- 02Running the database-only mode
- 03Searching a Qdrant collection through the Chat API
MCP support
Tiny Chat can run as an MCP server. The README shows an example configuration for connecting it to Claude Desktop using its command and database configuration file.
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 READMETiny Chat
Installation
Tested with Python 3.10 or later
Development Installation
pip install -r requirements.txt
Package Installation
# Build the package
pip install build
python -m build
# Install the built package
pip install dist/*.whl
Web Interface Usage
Running from source (development)
streamlit run tiny_chat/main.py --server.address=127.0.0.1
only database (development)
streamlit run tiny_chat/main.py --server.address=127.0.0.1 -- --database
Running installed package
tiny-chat
only database
tiny-chat --database

MCP Usage
Claude Desktop example.
{
"mcpServers": {
"tiny-chat": {
"command": "/path/to/tiny_chat/.venv/bin/tiny-chat-mcp",
"env": {
"DB_CONFIG": "/path/to/tiny_chat/database_config.json"
}
}
}
}
OpenAI Chat API RAG Server Usage
tiny-chat-api
model: target search qdrant collection name (model change in conversation).
curl http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"model": "qdrant-collection-name", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "カレーライスの材料は?"}]}'
Comments
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