# claude-prompts-mcp MCP Server

Reusable prompt templates, multi-step workflow chains, and quality gates for any MCP client.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `claude-prompts` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**6 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

### Most discussed

### v2.1.0 plugin install: server fails to start — dist/index.js is ESM but server/ has no package.json with type:module

## Bug

Installing the plugin via the Claude Code marketplace (claude-prompts@minipuft, v2.1.0) produces a cached MCP connection failure. Running the server manually shows why:

```
(node:30944) Warning: Failed to load the ES module: ...\server\dist\index.js. Make sure to set "type": "module" in the nearest package.json file or use the .mjs extension.
SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module
```

The installed plugin ships `server/dist/index.js` compiled as ESM, but there is no 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/minipuft/claude-prompts-mcp/issues/148) · 2026-07-06 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Plugin MCP server fails to start on Windows: "Unable to detect server root directory" (.mcp.json missing --server-root)

## Summary

When `claude-prompts` is installed as a Claude Code plugin on Windows, the MCP server fails to connect on every startup. The bundled `dist/index.js` can't auto-detect its own package root, and the plugin's `.mcp.json` doesn't pass `--server-root`, so the server aborts during the identity/root-resolution step.

`claude mcp list` shows:

```
plugin:claude-prompts:claude-prompts: node .../server/dist/index.js --transport=stdio - ✗ Failed to connect
```

## Environment

- OS: Windows 11 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/minipuft/claude-prompts-mcp/issues/139) · 2026-05-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Build on existing OSS

Nice tool - added a few issues that I faced or found while trying to set it up.

I know it is early days - but have you seen https://github.com/sparesparrow/mcp-prompts?

Have you considered building on this existing tool, which is already mature and incredibly robust, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel?

It seems there is a LOT of overlap - if I understand your project's goals correctly, and you want to use Claude Code to develop it - it might be better to add UI and missing features to th

[Read the thread](https://github.com/minipuft/claude-prompts-mcp/issues/4) · 2025-06-08 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Naming Semantics/Cursor Support

This project supports Cursor, Windsurf etc. already - the decision around prepending claude to the project name might need revisiting (better sooner rather than later).

[Read the thread](https://github.com/minipuft/claude-prompts-mcp/issues/3) · 2025-06-08 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Document tool functions in README

No mention of the tools made available and then function/purpose.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/minipuft/claude-prompts-mcp/issues/2) · 2025-06-08 · closed · external user · 0 comments

[See all 6 reports Pod holds for claude-prompts-mcp](/mcp/claude-prompts-mcp/issues).

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