Make sure you have installed the MCP dependencies via the quickstart guide at:

• https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart#installing-prerequisites-macos

Install dependencies via Homebrew:

brew install uv git sqlite3

(you won't need git and sqlite3 for this project but you will need uv - I think Claude Desktop uses it to launch servers)

In your home directory:

git clone <https://github.com/joshrutkowski/applescript-mcp.git>

Navigate to the newly created applescript-mcp folder and open package.json

Make the following edit and save:

original: "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "^0.1.0"
edit: "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "1.0.3"

In the terminal, from the applescript-mcp folder:

npm install

Then:

npm run build

This will create a dist folder.

Now you just need to start the MCP server, you have to leave this running the background:

npm start

Now you need to edit your claude_desktop_config.json file to add the applescript-mcp. This file will be in:

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json