mcp-dalamud

An MCP server that exposes the Dalamud plugin API documentation to AI assistants. Compatible with any MCP-capable client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code with Copilot, etc.). Useful when writing FFXIV Dalamud plugins — ask your assistant about services, types, and methods without leaving your editor.

Requirements

• Node.js 18+
• Any MCP-compatible AI assistant

Setup

npm install
npm run build

Then register the server with your MCP client. The server communicates over stdio and takes no environment variables.

Claude Desktop (%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json on Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dalamud-api": {
      "command": "/path/to/node",
      "args": ["/path/to/mcp-dalamud/dist/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

Cursor / Windsurf / other clients: refer to your client's MCP documentation — the server entry is the same command + args pair above.

Restart your client after editing the config. On first launch the server crawls dalamud.dev/api and writes a local cache to cache/dalamud-api.json (~96 namespaces, ~572 types). Subsequent starts load from disk instantly.

Tools

| Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | list_namespaces | List all Dalamud API namespaces | | get_namespace | List all types in a namespace, grouped by kind | | get_type | Full docs for a type — properties, methods, events, declarations | | search | Keyword search across all types and summaries; optional kind filter (e.g. "enum", "interface") | | list_enums | Browse all enum types, optionally filtered by namespace or keyword | | list_services | List injectable services from Dalamud.Plugin.Services | | find_events | Find event arg types and delegate subscription points across the API | | search_members | Search properties/methods/events across already-loaded types (no network) | | get_member | Full docs for a specific member on a type | | health | Cache status: build time, Dalamud version, member coverage | | refresh_cache | Re-crawl dalamud.dev and rebuild the cache |

Example prompts

• "What services are available in Dalamud.Plugin.Services?"
• "Show me IClientState — what properties does it have?"
• "Search for anything related to inventory"
• "What enums exist for inventory slot types?"
• "How do I subscribe to framework events in Dalamud?"
• "How do I register a slash command in Dalamud?"

These work with any MCP-capable assistant that supports tool use.

How it works

Startup: loads the cache from disk, or crawls dalamud.dev if missing/outdated. Also checks the Dalamud GitHub releases in the background — if a new version is detected, the cache rebuilds automatically.

Cache versioning: the cache carries a version field. If the on-disk cache was built by an older version of this server, it is discarded and rebuilt on the next startup.

Lazy member loading: namespace and type indexes are cached upfront. Individual member details (properties, methods, etc.) are fetched on demand the first time get_type is called for a type, then persisted to cache.

Development

npm run dev     # TypeScript watch mode
npm test        # Run tests (Vitest)
npm run build   # Compile to dist/

Tests cover search (including kind filter), searchMembers, findType, findNamespace, isEventRelated, and isValidCache — the core pure-function logic. The crawler itself (network I/O) is not unit-tested.

Project structure

src/
  index.ts          # MCP server, tool handlers
  crawler.ts        # Crawling, caching, types
  search.ts         # findType, findNamespace, search, searchMembers, isEventRelated
  type-members.ts   # groupMembersByKind, MEMBER_KIND_ORDER
  __tests__/
    crawler.test.ts
    search.test.ts
cache/
  dalamud-api.json   # generated, not committed