Qiskit IBM Runtime MCP Server

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add qiskit-ibm-runtime-mcp-server -e QISKIT_IBM_TOKEN=... -e QISKIT_IBM_RUNTIME_MCP_INSTANCE=... -- uvx qiskit-ibm-runtime-mcp-server

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "qiskit-ibm-runtime-mcp-server": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "qiskit-ibm-runtime-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "QISKIT_IBM_TOKEN": "...",
        "QISKIT_IBM_RUNTIME_MCP_INSTANCE": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

MCP server for IBM Quantum computing services through Qiskit IBM Runtime

Questions

Qiskit IBM Runtime MCP Server is a local MCP server distributed as the pypi package qiskit-ibm-runtime-mcp-server.

Run: claude mcp add qiskit-ibm-runtime-mcp-server -e QISKIT_IBM_TOKEN=... -e QISKIT_IBM_RUNTIME_MCP_INSTANCE=... -- uvx qiskit-ibm-runtime-mcp-server

Run: codex mcp add qiskit-ibm-runtime-mcp-server --env QISKIT_IBM_TOKEN=... --env QISKIT_IBM_RUNTIME_MCP_INSTANCE=... -- uvx qiskit-ibm-runtime-mcp-server

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