Nerve MCP Server

What is Nerve MCP Server about?

Nerve MCP Server provides a bridge between Model Context Protocol (MCP) clients and the Nerve API. By exposing Nerve’s endpoints through standard MCP calls, AI assistants can perform real‑world actions—searching emails, querying databases, or triggering third‑party integrations—without custom code.

How to use Nerve MCP Server?

1. Create a Nerve account and generate an API key in the Settings page.
2. Add MCP configuration to your client’s mcp.json (or claude_desktop_config.json on macOS) with the command and arguments shown below.
3. Start the server using the provided command, ensuring the NERVE_API_KEY and optional NERVE_ENVIRONMENT environment variables are set.
4. Interact via MCP – issue instructions to the AI assistant; it will translate them into Nerve API calls (e.g., /search).

Key features of Nerve MCP Server

• Simple configuration using a JSON snippet in the client’s MCP settings.
• Secure API key handling via environment variables.
• Supports multiple Nerve environments (prod, staging, etc.).
• Minimal startup command; leverages the uv Python tool for fast execution.
• Extensible: add new Nerve endpoints without modifying the client.

Use cases of Nerve MCP Server

• Customer support assistants: retrieve recent feedback emails with a single natural‑language prompt.
• Sales enablement: query CRM records or recent deals directly from an AI chat.
• Workflow automation: trigger tasks in connected SaaS tools (e.g., create a ticket, update a spreadsheet) via MCP calls.
• Research assistants: perform fast searches across internal knowledge bases.

FAQ from the Nerve MCP Server

• What environment variable holds the API key? NERVE_API_KEY.
• Can I use a staging environment? Set NERVE_ENVIRONMENT to staging (or any custom value supported by Nerve).
• Where should the absolute path point to? The directory containing the cloned nerve-mcp-server repository.
• Do I need to install anything before running? Install uv (the Python package manager) and ensure Python 3.9+ is available.
• How do I restart the server after changing the config? Stop the running process and re‑run the uv command with the updated environment variables.

Nerve MCP Server

This project implements an MCP server for the Nerve API.

Installation

1. Setting up Integration in Nerve:

Go to https://usenerve.com/ and create an account.

Continue to your Settings page to create an API key to use for the client.

2. Adding MCP config to your client:

Add the following to your .cursor/mcp.json or claude_desktop_config.json (MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nerve": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "/<ABSOLUTE_PATH>/nerve-mcp-server",
        "run",
        "nerve-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
      	"NERVE_API_KEY": "<API_KEY>",
      	"NERVE_ENVIRONMENT": "prod"
      }
    }
  }
}

Don't forget to replace API_KEY with your own key. Find it from your Settings tab:

3. Enable third party integrations:

Navigate to your integrations page on Nerve to conenct to the various SaaS tools you use.

Examples

1. Using the following instruction

What emails have I gotten with customer feedback?

AI will plan one API calls, /search

(more examples coming soon)

Development

Execute

NERVE_API_KEY='<API_KEY>' uv run nerve-mcp