Guide: Connecting Scaffold to Cursor and Claude Desktop

The Scaffold MCP server is used to: Scaffold is a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system designed to structural understanding of large codebases. It transforms your source code into a living knowledge graph, allowing for precise, context-aware interactions that go far beyond simple file retrieval. Instead of manually writing configuration files, use the generator on the right.

AI Skills (Prompt Recipes)

Copy these prompts and send them to Claude/Cursor after connecting the tool to activate the skills:

Common Troubleshooting Issues:

• Missing commas in claude_desktop_config.json, which crashes the entire client.
• Incorrect slash escaping in Windows paths (use \\\\ instead of \\).
• Incorrect arguments syntax in the JSON array.