Bee — The Progressive Intelligence Engine

Overview

Bee is a progressive intelligence engine that runs as a Model Context Protocol server, giving AI assistants direct access to four integrated tools through a unified interface. It uses a tiered LLM architecture with a hosted API that includes a free tier, eliminating the need to manually switch between applications.

Install Bee locally using uvx bee-sdk, which runs the Python package over stdio on your machine. You'll need to provide your BEE_API_KEY through environment variables to authenticate with the hosted service. The latest release is v0.6.0, published under the Apache-2.0 license with source code available at cuilabs/bee-community on GitHub.

Bee belongs in the AI & Agents category on mcp.site and works with any MCP-compatible client including Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, and Zed. If you maintain Bee for cuilabs, claim this listing to earn the Verified badge and ensure the information stays up to date.

Installation

// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bee_the_progressive_intelligence_engine": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "bee-sdk"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BEE_API_KEY": "<bee-api-key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Requires BEE_API_KEY