Connecting to the Neovim MCP Server?

[philip-updoc]

This is a great plugin!

I'm wondering if there's a way to connect to the Neovim MCP server outside of neovim? E.g. I'd like to add the Neovim MCP server to Claude Code so I can interact with the editor I have open. Is there any way to do this?

[ravitemer]

Unfortunately we can't with the Native MCP Servers. The Native servers doesn't implement the JSON RPC MCP protocol but simulate them. A native server is just a lua table with capabilities declared by the user with a callback function when a particular capability (tool/resource/prompt etc) is executed. The plugin just checks if the tool is called on native or an actual MCP server and executes the callback if it's native.

They only work in neovim. I guess given the neovim remote plugins we can build a real MCP Server that control neovim if it already doesn't exist. That would be cool