drand-mcp-server 🎲

Name: drand-mcp-server 🎲
Author: randa-mu

@randa-mu

Repository

About drand-mcp-server 🎲

A model context protocol server for drand

Basic information

Config

Add this server to your MCP-compatible client using the configuration below.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "drand": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "drand-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Tools

none

time in milliseconds

Overview

What is drand-mcp-server?

drand-mcp-server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI applications fetch verifiable randomness from the drand network. It provides tools to get the latest beacon, a beacon by round, or a beacon by timestamp, and use that randomness as an input seed in model-driven flows.

How to use drand-mcp-server?

Run the server via npx drand-mcp-server or build from source (npm install && npm run build) and then run node ./dist/index.mjs. Configure it as an MCP server in VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json) or Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json) by setting the command and args as shown in the README.

Key features of drand-mcp-server

Fetch the latest random beacon from drand Quicknet.
Retrieve a beacon by a specific round number.
Get the beacon emitted at or just before a given timestamp.
All randomness is cryptographically verifiable.
Built for integration with AI tools via the MCP protocol.

Use cases of drand-mcp-server

Repeatable, random sampling of input data.
Verifiable interaction with other MCP servers (e.g., paying out rewards based on a prompt).
Verifying the output of another random process using historical drand beacons.