To use the released jar instead of building from source follow the same steps to add path to the downloaded solr-mcp-1.0.0.jar in the config.
Instructions for Claude code are in https://github.com/apache/solr-mcp README As well as will be available when this PR https://github.com/apache/solr-site/pull/175/files (content/pages/mcp/clients/claude-code.md) gets merged. claude mcp add --transport stdio -e SOLR_URL=http://localhost:8983/solr/ solr-mcp -- java -jar /absolute/path/to/solr-mcp-1.0.0.jar Please let us know if there are difficulties and we can address them as well as refine the documentation. Thanks, Aditya On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 3:33 AM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> wrote: > Way off topic to discuss the existence of the project itself in this > context, I have > clients looking very much forward to adding Solr MCP to their tool belt. > > What we are discussing is how to improve the *release process* to make sure > we vote on the actual artifacts and not something else, and perhpas > identify the > need for a "smoke tester" script , like we have for both Solr and Solr > Operator. > That would lower the bar for both committers and others to participate in > VOTEs. > > Please don't take this as critisism from my side, we're in this together > and I lift > issues with the goal of process improvement in mind. > > I have another question. The release artifacts are only jar files > > solr-mcp-1.0.0-javadoc.jar > solr-mcp-1.0.0-javadoc.jar.asc > solr-mcp-1.0.0-javadoc.jar.sha512 > solr-mcp-1.0.0-plain.jar > solr-mcp-1.0.0-plain.jar.asc > solr-mcp-1.0.0-plain.jar.sha512 > solr-mcp-1.0.0-sources.jar > solr-mcp-1.0.0-sources.jar.asc > solr-mcp-1.0.0-sources.jar.sha512 > solr-mcp-1.0.0.jar > solr-mcp-1.0.0.jar.asc > solr-mcp-1.0.0.jar.sha512 > > Would not any ASF release need to release the entire source tree as a > src.tgz > so that anyone can download it in 10 years and build the binaries from > source? > I can see that the execuable jar is more self contained and all you need > to run the mcp... > > Jan > > > 3. juni 2026 kl. 06:33 skrev Mark Miller <[email protected]>: > > > > Personally, I just see it as one more release vote we don't need. How > many > > Solr MCPs exist already? A dozen? > > > > Meh. I wouldn't use any of them anyway. It makes a much better Skill. > MCPs > > take up a crap load of context whether the current prompt uses it or not, > > if you launch any agents, that silly token cost multiplies and context > rot > > extends out like a virus. As a simple skill, all of that is resolved, and > > because command line usage is well burrowed into the training data, LLM’s > > are much better at using Solr that way than via an MCP - and heck, that > > also means you hardly even need much of a skill definition given how well > > they know the Solr apis. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
