About
Cowsay brings the classic Unix ASCII art generator to AI coding assistants, creating fun text-based illustrations of cows and other characters displaying custom messages. Key features: - Generate ASCII art with cows "saying" custom messages through speech bubbles - Generate ASCII art with cows "thinking" messages through thought bubbles - Choose from multiple character options including tux (penguin), moose, sheep, dragon, elephant, skeleton, and more - List all available characters to discover your options
Tools 4
cowsayGenerate ASCII art of a cow saying something.
cowthinkGenerate ASCII art of a cow thinking something.
list_cowsList all available cow characters.
get_versionGet the current version of cowsay-mcp server.
README
cowsay-mcp
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Cowsay MCP Server, providing ASCII art cow capabilities for LLMs. This implementation allows language models to generate fun ASCII art cows with custom messages.
🛠️ Tools
cowsay: Generate ASCII art with a cow saying your messagecowthink: Generate ASCII art with a cow thinking your messagelist_cows: List all available cow characters📦 Installation
Installing via Smithery
To install cowsay-mcp for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install @mrseanchow/cowsay-mcp --client claude
Manual Installation
npm install -g cowsay-mcp
Using npx
npx -y cowsay-mcp
🚀 Running on Cursor
Add this to your mcp.json file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"cowsay-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "cowsay-mcp"]
}
}
}
🌊 Running on Windsurf
Add this to your ./codeium/windsurf/model_config.json file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"cowsay-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "cowsay-mcp"]
}
}
}
🎨 Available Cow Characters
The server provides a wide variety of cow characters, including but not limited to:
default: The classic cowsmall: A smaller version of the default cowtux: A penguin charactermoose: A moose charactersheep: A sheep characterdragon: A dragon characterelephant: An elephant characterskeleton: A skeleton characterstimpy: A Stimpy characterAnd many more! Use the list_cows tool to see all available characters.
📝 Example Usage
cowsay Tool
{
"name": "cowsay",
"parameters": {
"message": "Hello from LLM!",
"cow": "tux"
}
}
cowthink Tool
{
"name": "cowthink",
"parameters": {
"message": "What should I say next?",
"cow": "moose"
}
}
list_cows Tool
{
"name": "list_cows",
"parameters": {}
}
📄 License
MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.
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