Radare2 MCP Server

An MCP server for using radare2 with AI assistants such as Claude, VSCode, CLION, Mai, OpenCode, ...

Features

This implementation provides a simple MCP server that:

Uses a direct stdin/stdout communication model
Provides basic tool capabilities
Allows seamless binary analysis with radare2
Integrates radare2 directly with AI assistants
Enables file exploration and inspection

Installation

Using r2pm

The simplest way to install the package is by using r2pm:

$ r2pm -Uci r2mcp

The r2mcp executable will be copied into r2pm's bindir in your home directory. However, this binary is not supposed to be executed directly from the shell; it will only work when launched by the MCP service handler of your language model of choice.

$ r2pm -r mcp

Using Docker

Alternatively, you can build the Docker image:

docker build -t r2mcp .

Update your MCP client configuration file (see below) to use the Docker image to use:

"command": "docker"
"args": ["run", "--rm", "-i", "-v", "/tmp/data:/data", "r2mcp"].

Configuration

Claude Desktop Integration

In the Claude Desktop app, press CMD + , to open the Developer settings. Edit the configuration file and restart the client after editing the JSON file as explained below:

Locate your Claude Desktop configuration file:
- macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
- Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
- Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Add the following to your configuration file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "radare2": {
      "command": "r2pm",
      "args": ["-r", "r2mcp"]
    }
  }
}

VS Code Integration

To use r2mcp with GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code by adding it to your user configuration (see other options here):

Open the Command Palette with CMD + Shift + P (macOS) or Ctrl + Shift + P (Windows/Linux).
Search for and select Copilot: Open User Configuration (typically found in ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/mcp.json in macOS).
Add the following to your configuration file:

{
  "servers": {
    "radare2": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "r2pm",
      "args": ["-r", "r2mcp"]
    }
  },
  "inputs": []
}

Zed Integration

You can use r2mcp with Zed as well by adding it to your configuration:

Open the command palette: CMD + Shift + P (macOS) or Ctrl + Shift + P (Windows/Linux).
Search of agent: open configuration or search of settings.
Add your server as such:

  "context_servers": {
    "r2-mcp-server": {
      "source": "custom",
      "command": "r2pm",
      "args": ["-r", "r2mcp"],
      "env": {}
    }
  }

Note: you will need another LLM agent, such as Claude, Gemini or else to be able to use it.

For Developers

Build from Source

To test the server locally, you can build and install it with make:

make install

This will compile the server and place the r2mcp binary in /usr/local/bin on macOS.

You can now add the following configuration to your VS Code mcp.json as explained above:

{
  "servers": {
    "r2mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "r2mcp",
      "args": []
    }
  },
  "inputs": []
}

Tip: So that the client doesn't get confused, it's best to enable one server at a time. You can do this by commenting out the other server in the configuration file.

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