OpenZeppelin Contracts MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that allows AI agents to generate smart contracts using OpenZeppelin Contracts libraries.

This server runs locally and requires Node.js to be installed. For a hosted version, see OpenZeppelin MCP Servers.

Features

Provides tools to generate smart contract source code for the following languages and contract kinds. Resulting contracts use OpenZeppelin Contracts libraries for each language. Tools are named in the format <language>-<contract>.

MCP Apps

Hosts that support the MCP Apps extension (for example Cursor and Claude) can render an interactive Wizard UI for each tool: the same options as the web Wizard for that contract kind, a live code preview, and a button to hand the current source back to the agent. Language and kind pickers are omitted because the tool name already selects them.

Send Updates to Agent checks host MCP Apps capabilities:

• message (e.g. Claude): sends a chat message that includes the full current source so the agent sees option changes. Also best-effort stages via updateModelContext when advertised (some hosts do not attach silent context to draft-injected messages, so the message itself must be self-contained).

• No message capability (e.g. Cursor today, including hosts that only advertise updateModelContext): the button is Copy to Clipboard (same idea as the web Wizard copy action).

• Outbound links (tooltip “Read more”, import hyperlinks in the preview) use the host openLinks capability via openLink. If the host does not advertise it, those links are hidden so nothing looks clickable that cannot open.

Clients without Apps support continue to work — tools still return source code as Markdown text. The server always returns tool text; hosts that do not implement MCP Apps simply ignore the UI metadata.

App HTML artifacts

Interactive App HTML is not committed to git. It is generated into packages/mcp/apps/ and included in the published npm tarball.

• Published package (npm / npx): Apps HTML is already in the package; no extra build step.

• Local checkout (Cursor/Claude pointed at packages/mcp/dist/cli.js, or a file: dependency): run yarn --cwd packages/mcp build:apps after cloning or changing MCP App UI sources. If HTML is missing, the server fails closed at startup with a message to run that command (npm consumers should reinstall or report a packaging bug).

• CI / publish: CI builds Apps before MCP tests; prepublishOnly builds Apps before npm publish.

Related MCP server: genlayer-cli-mcp

Installation

Cursor

For quick installation, use the button below.

For manual installation:

1. Go to Settings > Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations > MCP Tools > New MCP Server.

2. Add the contents from the Client Configuration section to your MCP configuration file and save.

3. See the MCP server in the list.

Windsurf

1. Go to Settings > Windsurf Settings > Cascade > Manage MCPs > View raw config.

2. Add the contents from the Client Configuration section to your MCP configuration file and save.

3. Click Refresh on the Manage MCP Servers page.

4. See the MCP server in the list.

Claude Desktop

1. Go to Settings > Developer > Edit Config.

2. Add the contents from the Client Configuration section to your MCP configuration file and save.

3. Restart Claude Desktop.

4. Click the "Search and tools" button and see the MCP server in the list.

Client Configuration (Cursor/Windsurf/Claude Desktop)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "OpenZeppelinContracts": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@openzeppelin/contracts-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add OpenZeppelinContracts -- npx -y @openzeppelin/contracts-mcp

VS Code

For quick installation, use one of the buttons below.

For manual installation:

1. Follow VS Code documentation to Add an MCP server to your workspace using the following configuration:

{
  "servers": {
    "OpenZeppelinContracts": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@openzeppelin/contracts-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

2. Start the MCP server according to Manage MCP servers.

Usage

When interacting with an AI agent, for example in your IDE's Write or Agent mode, ask it to write or modify smart contracts for your use case. When the AI agent determines it is appropriate to do so, it will use the MCP server to generate the contracts or determine best practices for your use case.