MCP System Bridge

A bridge implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that exposes native operating system features such as clipboard management, URL handling and date information retrieval.

Overview
Key Features
Installation
Quick Start
Available Tools
Changelog
License

Overview

mcp-sys-bridge provides a minimal set of tools for MCP compatible clients, allowing them to interact with the underlying OS in a safe manner.

Key Features

🚀 URL Opening — open one or multiple URLs in the default browser.
📋 Clipboard Support — copy text directly to the clipboard.
📆 Date Info — retrieve detailed information about the current date and time.

Installation

mcp-sys-bridge runs directly with uvx; no package installation is required. Add the server to your MCP configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-sys-bridge": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-sys-bridge"]
    }
  }
}

Ensure uv is installed following the uv documentation.

Quick Start

Start the bridge manually:

uvx mcp-sys-bridge

Available Tools

open_urls — open a list of URLs in the default browser.
copy_to_clipboard — copy text to the clipboard.
get_current_date_info — return rich information about the current date such as day number, week number, quarter and more.

Changelog

0.1.4

Defined annotations to declare tools as read-only.

0.1.3

Added get_current_date_info tool to get comprehensive information about the current date.

0.1.2

Change open_url to open_urls to open a list of URLs in the default browser.

0.1.1

Improve the open_url tool to handle URLs without a scheme and validate that the URL is valid.

0.1.0

Added open_url tool.
Added copy_to_clipboard tool.

License

MIT License. See license.

System Bridge