The KDB+ / q MCP, built by kxsystems, provides the KDB-X MCP Server is maintained by KX themselves (KxSystems/kdb-x-mcp-server) and lets an LLM query KDB-X data in natural language. It is officially maintained and best for Database.
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About
The KDB-X MCP Server is maintained by KX themselves (KxSystems/kdb-x-mcp-server) and lets an LLM query KDB-X data in natural language. One expectation to correct up front: despite kdb+ being a q database, the query tool here takes SQL, not q — `kdbx_run_sql_query` executes a SQL SELECT and returns JSON capped at 1,000 rows. That cap is a guardrail, not a limitation to work around; the server is built to keep a model inside safe, bounded reads. Two other tools cover retrieval: `kdbx_similarity_search` runs vector similarity over a KDB-X table, and `kdbx_hybrid_search` combines dense-vector and sparse-text search on the same table, both taking an optional result count. Alongside the tools it exposes MCP resources rather than leaving schema discovery to guesswork — `kdbx://tables` returns every table with schema information and sample rows, and `file://guidance/kdbx-sql-queries` ships KX-authored SQL syntax guidance and examples straight into the model context. Prompts such as `kdbx_table_analysis` generate statistical or data-quality analysis plans for a named table. The framework auto-discovers anything you drop into the tools/resources/prompts directories, and includes `_template.py` starters, so extending it with in-house tools does not mean forking the request plumbing. Setup needs uv, a running KDB-X (or KDB+) instance, and npx if you use streamable-http transport with Claude Desktop; stdio is also supported.
Trust verdict
How grades are computed →Grade B (83/100, solid) from 1 measured signal, based on repository evidence. Only one signal stands behind it, so treat the grade as provisional.
What was measured
- Repository maintenance55/100 · weight 20
The last push or release is between six and eighteen months old. — last push 2026-01-19, last release 2026-01-19 (0.1.4).
- Source verification100/100 · weight 25
The repository URL was confirmed to resolve against the live GitHub API and is not archived.
- Provenance90/100 · weight 10
Published and maintained by the vendor of the service it connects to, rather than by a third party.
- Listing ↔ repository match100/100 · weight 5
The listing name lines up with the linked repository KxSystems/kdb-x-mcp-server.
What could not be measured
These contributed nothing to the score — not a penalty, not a zero. They are why the confidence reads the way it does.
- Live MCP handshakeunknown
No remote endpoint to handshake — this server installs and runs locally over stdio, so there is nothing to probe from the outside.
- Measured uptimeunknown
No probe history recorded for this server yet.
- Tool-schema stabilityunknown
Drift is a difference between two successive checks, and this server has none recorded.
Installation
git clone https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb-x-mcp-server.git && cd kdb-x-mcp-server && uv run mcp-serverCategories
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Repo Health
Local/stdio install — runs on your machine, so there is no remote endpoint to verify live. Trust signal below is from the source repo.
- Last commit
- 8mo ago
- Last release
- 0.1.4 · 8mo ago
- Install
- source
Quick Info
- Install Type
- source
- Author
- kxsystems
- Categories
- 3
- Integrations
- 3
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