Regarding skills vs MCP, linking the readme to an FAQ page answering that question and raising a PR.
Thanks, Aditya On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 6:28 AM Aditya Parikh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] >> >>
