MCP Environment Installation

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open-source protocol designed to provide context information to large language models (LLMs) in a standardized way. For more information about MCP, see Knowledge Popularization

Using MCP in Cherry Studio

Below using fetch function as an example, we demonstrate how to use MCP in Cherry Studio. Details can be found in the documentation .

Preparation: install uv, bun

Cherry Studio currently only uses the built-in uv and bun,and will not reusethe uv and bun already installed on the system.

In Settings - MCP Server click Install button to automatically download and install. Because it is downloaded directly from GitHub, the speed may be slow and it may often fail. Whether the installation was successful should be determined by whether there are files in the folders mentioned below.

Executable installation directory:

Windows: C:\Users\USERNAME\.cherrystudio\bin

macOS, Linux: ~/.cherrystudio/bin

bin directory

If unable to install properly:

You can link the corresponding commands from your system here using symbolic links; if the corresponding directory does not exist, you need to create it manually. You can also manually download the executables and place them in this directory:

Bun: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases UV: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases