EVE MCP Server — quering ESI from Claude, Copilot and other AI assistants

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Hi all,

EVE MCP Server is an open-source Model Context Protocol server exposing EVE’s public ESI endpoints as tools an AI assistant can call directly.

Repo: GitHub - pfh59/eve-mcp-server · GitHub — v1.1.0, C# / .NET 10, MIT

Why

Ask an LLM about EVE data without tooling and you get confident nonsense: hallucinated type IDs, invented systems, market numbers from nowhere. MCP is an open standard that lets a client (Claude Desktop, VS Code, others) call real tools instead of guessing. This server is the ESI side of that contract.

Coverage — 52 tools, all prefixed eve_

Domain Tools Examples
Universe 21 Regions, systems, stations, stargates, types, groups, factions, jumps/kills
Market 6 Prices, orders by region/type, history, market groups
Character 6 Character / corporation / alliance public info, affiliations
Search 2 Name → ID and ID → name resolution
Gameplay 7 Server status, killmails, wars, incursions, insurance
Infrastructure 10 Routes, industry facilities, sovereignty, dogma, LP store

Install — two options, no .NET SDK required either way

Option A — prebuilt executable

Grab the archive for your platform from the Releases page: eve-mcp-server-win-x64.zip or eve-mcp-server-linux-x64.tar.gz. These are self-contained single-file builds — unzip and point your MCP client at the binary, nothing else to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "eve-online": {
      "command": "C:\\path\\to\\eve-mcp-server.exe",
      "env": {
        "ESI__UserAgent": "my-eve-assistant/1.0 (you@example.com)"
      }
    }
  }
}

Option B — Docker

Multi-arch images (amd64 + arm64) on GHCR, chiselled distroless runtime, non-root.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "eve-online": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run", "-i", "--rm",
        "-e", "ESI__UserAgent=my-eve-assistant/1.0 (you@example.com)",
        "ghcr.io/pfh59/eve-mcp-server:latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

-i is mandatory — the stdio transport needs

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