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Bee — The Progressive Intelligence Engine MCP Server

io.github.cuilabs/bee

What is the Bee — The Progressive Intelligence Engine MCP server?

Bee — The Progressive Intelligence Engine: tiered LLM, 4 tools, hosted API, free tier.

How to install Bee — The Progressive Intelligence Engine

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio
Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.
Environment / auth
  • BEE_API_KEY
    required
    secret

    Bee API key (bee_sk_…). Create one at https://bee.cuilabs.io/app/account/api-keys — the free Cell tier works.

  • BEE_MODEL

    Default model tier (bee-cell … bee-swarm). Tier access follows the API key's plan. Default: bee-cell (free).

  • BEE_API_URL

    Override the gateway base URL (default https://bee.cuilabs.io/bee). Set only for a self-hosted Bee Enclave or staging.

Claude Desktop
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bee": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "bee-sdk"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BEE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BEE_API_KEY>",
        "BEE_MODEL": "<YOUR_BEE_MODEL>",
        "BEE_API_URL": "<YOUR_BEE_API_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}
Cursor
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bee": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "bee-sdk"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BEE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BEE_API_KEY>",
        "BEE_MODEL": "<YOUR_BEE_MODEL>",
        "BEE_API_URL": "<YOUR_BEE_API_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}
Windsurf
~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bee": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "bee-sdk"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BEE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BEE_API_KEY>",
        "BEE_MODEL": "<YOUR_BEE_MODEL>",
        "BEE_API_URL": "<YOUR_BEE_API_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}
VS Code
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "bee": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "bee-sdk"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BEE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_BEE_API_KEY>",
        "BEE_MODEL": "<YOUR_BEE_MODEL>",
        "BEE_API_URL": "<YOUR_BEE_API_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}
Claude Code
claude mcp add bee --env BEE_API_KEY=<YOUR_BEE_API_KEY> --env BEE_MODEL=<YOUR_BEE_MODEL> --env BEE_API_URL=<YOUR_BEE_API_URL> -- uvx bee-sdk

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