Install mcp-server-chart with Homebrew

Project links

• Homepage

Commands and aliases

• mcp-server-chart

Project history

The repository was created under the AntV organization in April 2025. Its README describes a TypeScript MCP server built around AntV visualization capabilities and intended for chart generation and data analysis.

The documented feature set expanded into a broad catalog of chart tools, including area, bar, boxplot, column, map, flow, funnel, histogram, line, pie, radar, sankey, scatter, treemap, venn, violin, word cloud, and spreadsheet generation. The README also connects the server to AntV's chart-visualization skill and private deployment options.

Adoption history

The project is distributed as the npm package `@antv/mcp-server-chart` and can be launched by AI desktop and IDE clients with `npx`. The README also lists HTTP, SSE, marketplace, and platform integrations such as Dify, ModelScope, Glama, Smithery, and Aliyun.

GitHub metadata showed thousands of stars and hundreds of forks by July 2026, giving it one of the stronger adoption signals among domain-specific MCP servers. Its attraction is obvious for package users: it turns chart rendering into a reusable MCP service rather than requiring every agent workflow to ship charting code.

How it is used

The common desktop-client configuration uses `npx -y @antv/mcp-server-chart` as a stdio MCP server command. The CLI can also run with SSE or Streamable HTTP transports, with configurable host, port, and endpoint flags.

The README documents environment variables for custom chart-generation services, service identifiers for generated-record workflows, and disabling selected tools. A private deployment path uses AntV's GPT-Vis-SSR service and a `VIS_REQUEST_SERVER` environment variable.

Why package nerds care

mcp-server-chart is significant because it packages a substantial visualization surface as a single MCP server. That is exactly the sort of domain capability package managers are good at distributing: install one command, then let multiple clients call it through a stable protocol.

For MCP ecosystem watchers, it also shows how established JavaScript visualization projects moved into AI-agent tooling by wrapping existing rendering services and chart grammars as protocol tools.

Timeline

• 2025: GitHub repository created under antvis/mcp-server-chart.
• 2025: README documents 25-plus chart-generation tools through MCP.
• 2025: npm and desktop-client usage documented with `@antv/mcp-server-chart`.
• 2026: 0.9.x releases continue and repository metadata shows broad adoption.

Related projects

• AntV is the upstream visualization project family behind the charting capabilities.
• antvis/chart-visualization-skills is documented as a companion skill for choosing chart types.
• antvis/GPT-Vis provides related rendering infrastructure for private deployments.

Sources

• https://api.github.com/repos/antvis/mcp-server-chart
• https://api.github.com/repos/antvis/mcp-server-chart/releases
• https://github.com/antvis/mcp-server-chart
• https://github.com/antvis/mcp-server-chart#readme
• source_facts.description