amCharts 5

amCharts 5 MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that gives AI assistants on-demand access to the complete amCharts 5 knowledge base: 160+ documentation pages, 290+ code examples, and 1,300+ API reference pages.

Works with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code + GitHub Copilot, and any other MCP-compatible AI tool.

Why?

Instead of loading the entire amCharts reference into the AI's context window, the MCP server lets the AI query exactly what it needs — a specific chart type reference, a code example, or an API lookup. This means better answers with less context waste.

Quick Start

The easiest way is the hosted server — no install, just add one URL. Prefer to run it yourself? See Local install below.

Hosted (no install) — recommended

Point your AI client at:

https://mcp.amcharts.com/mcp

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http amcharts5 https://mcp.amcharts.com/mcp

Claude Desktop / claude.ai — Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste https://mcp.amcharts.com/mcp.

Cursor — .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "amcharts5": {
      "url": "https://mcp.amcharts.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code + GitHub Copilot — .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "amcharts5": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.amcharts.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf — ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "amcharts5": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.amcharts.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

ChatGPT (Plus/Pro/Enterprise with connectors/developer mode enabled) — Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste https://mcp.amcharts.com/mcp.

Cline (VS Code extension) — open the MCP Servers panel → Remote Servers, paste https://mcp.amcharts.com/mcp, or add to its MCP settings JSON:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "amcharts5": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://mcp.amcharts.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Clients that only support local (stdio) servers (e.g. Zed, Continue, Amazon Q Developer) — bridge to the hosted URL with mcp-remote. Use this as the server's run command in the client's config:

npx mcp-remote https://mcp.amcharts.com/mcp

For example, in a command/args style config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "amcharts5": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.amcharts.com/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Any other MCP client that accepts a remote server URL works too — use the /mcp endpoint (Streamable HTTP) or /sse (legacy SSE). For URL-only clients that still expect a command, use the mcp-remote bridge shown above.

Local install (npx)

Prefer running it yourself? The server is also published to npm and runs over stdio.

Claude Code

For all projects (global, recommended):

claude mcp add -s user amcharts5 -- npx -y @amcharts/amcharts5-mcp

For current project only:

claude mcp add amcharts5 -- npx -y @amcharts/amcharts5-mcp

Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "amcharts5": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@amcharts/amcharts5-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Cursor

Create or edit .cursor/mcp.json in your project root (or ~/.cursor/mcp.json for global):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "amcharts5": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@amcharts/amcharts5-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Edit ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "amcharts5": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@amcharts/amcharts5-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

VS Code + GitHub Copilot

Create or edit .vscode/mcp.json in your workspace:

{
  "servers": {
    "amcharts5": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@amcharts/amcharts5-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Other MCP-compatible tools

For any other tool that supports MCP (Cline, Continue, Amazon Q, Zed, etc.), configure it to run:

npx -y @amcharts/amcharts5-mcp

Run locally (for development)

git clone https://github.com/amcharts/amcharts5-mcp.git
cd amcharts5-mcp
npm install
npm start

Available Tools

Example Usage

Once connected, your AI assistant can:

• "Build me a pie chart" → AI calls get_quick_start("pie") and adapts the template
• "How do I format date axis labels?" → AI calls search_all("date axis label format")
• "Show me the Sankey diagram example" → AI calls get_example("examples/flow/sankey-diagram")
• "What settings does XYChart support?" → AI calls get_doc("reference/xychart")
• "How do I integrate with React?" → AI calls get_doc("getting-started/integrations/react"), which covers the @amcharts/amcharts5-react package
• "What chart types are available?" → AI calls list_chart_types()
• "Map the current US congressional districts" → AI calls list_geodata("congressional whole country")

Content

The server includes 1,800+ documents:

• 160+ documentation pages — getting started, chart guides, concepts (themes, events, adapters, data binding, animations, accessibility, etc.), and framework integration guides for amCharts' React, Vue, Angular, Svelte and React Native packages (with Next.js, Nuxt, SvelteKit, React Router and Remix 3)
• 290+ code examples — working demos across 16 categories including column/bar, line/area, pie/donut, maps, hierarchy, flow, radar/polar, stock, gauges, Gantt, timeline, and more
• 1,300+ API reference pages — every class, interface and function in the amCharts 5 library, generated from the release's typings: settings with their real defaults (theme rules included), events, properties, data item fields, the inheritance chain and the import line
• 670+ geodata entries — every map in @amcharts/amcharts5-geodata, for list_geodata
• Curated skill reference — quick-start templates and chart-specific guides from the amCharts 5 AI Skill

Security

• Read-only tools. Every tool reads the bundled amCharts documentation and returns text. No tool writes files, runs commands or fetches URLs.
• The hosted endpoint has no authentication, by design. https://mcp.amcharts.com/mcp serves the same public documentation as amcharts.com. There are no accounts, API keys, user data or write operations behind it.
  • It runs on Cloudflare Workers.
  • MCP session state is kept in a Durable Object, as the MCP agents framework requires. It is deleted when the session ends, or 24 hours after its last request.
  • Per-request logs (Workers invocation logs) are off. Only error messages are logged, and they hold no tool arguments. See "Privacy" below.
• Local install. The npm package runs over stdio on your machine and reads only the content bundled in it; it makes no network requests. Its only runtime dependencies are @modelcontextprotocol/sdk and zod.
• Maintainer scripts. The scripts in scripts/ (the demo and docs scrapers, the API reference generator) are not part of the npm package and never run in the server.
• Reporting a vulnerability: https://www.amcharts.com/report-vulnerability/

Privacy

Neither the hosted server nor the npm package needs an account or asks for personal data.

• Hosted server (https://mcp.amcharts.com/mcp):
  • What your AI app sends: a search phrase, a chart type, a doc path. These are used only to build the answer, and are not logged or stored. A response is kept in the session's storage only until it has been delivered (so a dropped stream can resume), then deleted.
  • Session record: when an AI app connects, the server keeps its MCP initialize message in the session's storage. That message holds what the app says about itself (its name and version, and whatever else it puts there), the protocol version and the app's MCP capabilities. All of the session's storage is deleted when the app ends the session, or 24 hours after its last request.
  • Logs: the server keeps no request logs (Workers invocation logs are off). It runs on Cloudflare Workers, and Cloudflare processes each request, including its IP address, to deliver it. Error and warning messages are logged and kept for up to 7 days; they hold no request contents or tool arguments.
• npm package: it runs on your computer over stdio and sends nothing to amCharts or anyone else.
• Policy and questions: see the amCharts privacy policy, or write to contact@amcharts.com.

License

MIT