Why?

Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Sep 1, 2025 by dionny Closed Sep 1, 2025

Literally everyone on the planet uses JSON for configuring MCP, but you all decided to use toml.
Why?

5 Comments

dionny · 12 months ago

Here, I used some of my precious Claude tokens on this:
https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/d0d87633-7db5-4e42-bb66-2535083c8ab1

Enjoy.

anuramat · 12 months ago

fyi there's also remarshal for that (gets much better if you wrap it with nix)

aehlke · 12 months ago

because toml is more friendly to human reading & writing than json, maybe

dionny · 12 months ago

I don't disagree. TOML is indeed an excellent choice. But at this point in the game, it simply adds friction in this particular context. At least, that's one man's opinion.

Also, sorry, I didn't mean to pollute the issues board, this should have been a discussion topic instead. Closing the issue itself.

aehlke · 12 months ago

at this point in the game

claude code launched like 4 months ago 😭 and mcp is 10 months old