AI tools (MCP server)

Grove ships a built-in Model Context Protocol server, so AI tools like Claude and Cursor can see your local environment and answer questions about it — live. Because Grove already knows your sites, proxies every request, and can read each project's database, it can hand an AI assistant a rich, accurate picture of what's actually running on your machine, with zero per-project setup.

It's read-only and runs entirely on your machine — nothing is sent anywhere except to the AI client you connect.

Start it

grove mcp

That runs an MCP server over stdio (newline-delimited JSON-RPC). You normally don't run it by hand — your AI client launches it for you.

Connect your client

Claude Desktop — edit ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grove": { "command": "grove", "args": ["mcp"] }
  }
}

Cursor — add an MCP server in settings, or .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grove": { "command": "grove", "args": ["mcp"] }
  }
}

If grove isn't on your PATH, use the full path to the binary (for the desktop app that's /Applications/Grove.app/Contents/MacOS/grove, or install the shims with grove path install so grove resolves everywhere). Restart the client after editing its config.

What the AI can do

Tool	What it answers
`grove_sites`	Every site Grove serves (host, driver, PHP/Node, HTTPS, path).
`grove_requests`	Recent requests across sites — method, path, status, duration.
`grove_request`	Full headers + body of one captured request.
`grove_webhooks`	Recently captured inbound webhooks.
`grove_logs`	List log sources, or read recent Laravel / service log entries.
`grove_db_schema`	Tables and columns for a site's database (read from its `.env`).
`grove_db_query`	Run a read-only SQL query and return rows.

So you can ask your assistant things like:

"What routes does myapp have a controller for, and what did the last 500 error there look like?"
"Show me the schema for the orders table in shop."
"How many users signed up today?" (it runs a SELECT for you)
"What webhook did Stripe just send, and did my handler 200?"

Safety

Read-only. grove_db_query refuses anything that isn't a SELECT / SHOW / EXPLAIN / PRAGMA. The server never modifies your data or files.
Local only. The server talks to Grove's local daemon and your local databases; it makes no outbound network calls.
Requires the Grove daemon to be running (grove start).

¶AI tools (MCP server)

¶Start it

¶Connect your client

¶What the AI can do

¶Safety

AI tools (MCP server)

Start it

Connect your client

What the AI can do

Safety