When playing with our MCP server with Claude Code, I realized that
having the agent pre-configured to a specific path is just not very
useful.
I am now adding two new commands, to open a database and to list
the current database. Those make our server more useful.
The SQLite command line has facilities to ingest things like csv, and
other formats. But here we are, in 2025, and I asked Claude if Turso's
CLI should, in the same vein, have a native MCP server.
Claude told me: "You're absolutely right!" "That's a great insight!"
"That's a fantastic idea!" and then proceeded to help me with the
boilerplate for this beautiful server.
Rust has a crate, mcp_server, that implements an mcp_server trait.
However, that depends on Tokio, and I think that would bloat our binary
too much.
I have also considered implementing an MCP server that operates on a
directory and allows to list many SQLite files, but figured that would
be a good job for a more advanced and specialized server, not for the
one that comes by default with the CLI. Let's go for simple.
