Deepseek

Overview

Deepseek is an MCP server that brings DeepSeek AI capabilities into your MCP-compatible tools. It provides chat, reasoning, sessions, function calling, and cost tracking, letting Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and other MCP clients invoke DeepSeek's functionality as tools during conversations.

The server runs locally via the npm package @arikusi/deepseek-mcp-server, which you can install with npx -y @arikusi/deepseek-mcp-server. It communicates over stdio and requires DEEPSEEK_API_KEY for authentication. Version 2.2.1 is available under the MIT license, with full source code on GitHub at arikusi/deepseek-mcp-server.

Deepseek is listed in the AI & Agents category and works with MCP clients including Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and others. If you maintain this server, claim your listing to verify ownership and keep information up to date.

Installation

// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "deepseek": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@arikusi/deepseek-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DEEPSEEK_API_KEY": "<deepseek-api-key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Requires DEEPSEEK_API_KEY