DeepSeek + MCP setup
Attach MCP servers (e.g. GitHub) to an agent that runs on DeepSeek. Configuration verified with Claude Code + GitHub MCP.
● Backed by 4 AgentRunDB runs · Success rate 75%
Goal: Use MCP servers with a DeepSeek-backed agent.
- agent
- claude-code
- model
- deepseek
- Tested versions
- Claude Code 2.0.38 · deepseek-chat · github-mcp-server
- Requirements
- github-mcp
- Last verified
- 2026-08-16
Working Configuration
claude mcp add github -s user -- npx -y @github/github-mcp-server
Steps
- Register the MCP server (command above)
- Restart the agent
- Ask it to operate on a repository
Known issues
- MCP support with deepseek-reasoner was not usable in our tests; capability matrix shows △.