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MCP Server Chart

MCP Server Chart is a TypeScript Model Context Protocol server that uses AntV to expose chart-generation tools for AI assistant workflows. Its documented collection includes more than 25 visualizations and spreadsheet outputs for data analysis.

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Understand the project

Practical overview

When it fits

Use it when an MCP-compatible client needs chart or visualization tools as part of a data-analysis workflow, especially when the required output matches one of the server's documented chart types.

Who it is for

  • Developers integrating chart generation into MCP-compatible assistants or clients.
  • Teams using assistant-led analysis that needs charts, diagrams, maps or tabular outputs.
  • Dify users considering the documented visualization plugin integration.

Documented uses

  • Generate charts from data in an assistant workflow.
  • Compare categories or show trends, distributions and relationships.
  • Create diagrams such as flowcharts, mind maps and fishbone diagrams.
  • Present hierarchical or geographic data, or generate spreadsheet and pivot-table views.
Before you choose

Requirements & limits

The project is an open-source repository under the MIT license. The README identifies desktop clients including Claude, VS Code and Cline, and also mentions a Dify plugin.

  • It is a developer-facing MCP server, so it fits workflows built around MCP-compatible clients rather than a standalone charting interface.
  • The documented toolset includes more than 25 visual chart types, plus spreadsheet and pivot-table generation.
  • Geographic visualization tools use AMap and are documented as supporting map generation only within China.
  • The implementation is TypeScript and the repository specifies an MIT license.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Add MCP Server Chart to a desktop MCP client

Configure a desktop MCP client to launch MCP Server Chart through npx.

Before you start

  • A desktop MCP client that supports MCP server configuration.

Steps

  1. Open the MCP server configuration for the desktop client.

  2. Add an entry named mcp-server-chart with command npx and arguments -y and @antv/mcp-server-chart.

  3. Save the configuration; the README gives a cmd /c npx -y @antv/mcp-server-chart command form for Windows.

Expected outcome

The desktop client has an MCP server entry for chart-generation tools.

Guide limitations

  • The README provides configuration examples but does not document client-specific configuration locations or verify a successful connection.
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Source-based practical guide

Run MCP Server Chart with SSE or Streamable transport

Start the server locally and use its documented SSE or Streamable endpoint.

Before you start

  • npm installed for the documented global package installation, or Docker Compose for the Docker deployment option.

Steps

  1. For direct installation, run the command below; alternatively, enter the repository's docker directory for the Docker option.

    Documented command
    npm install -g @antv/mcp-server-chart

  2. For direct installation, run mcp-server-chart --transport sse or mcp-server-chart --transport streamable; for Docker, run the command below.

    Documented command
    docker compose up -d

  3. Use the documented endpoint: direct SSE at http://localhost:1122/sse, direct Streamable at http://localhost:1122/mcp; the Docker section lists SSE at http://localhost:1123/sse and Streamable at http://localhost:1122/mcp.

Expected outcome

The server is started using one of the documented transports, with the corresponding local endpoint listed for access.

Guide limitations

  • The README's Docker endpoint list gives port 1123 for SSE and port 1122 for Streamable.
  • Geographic visualization tools use AMap and currently support map generation only within China.
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