DXT is Anthropic's toolchain designed to simplify the deployment of MCP servers. Its core function is to package the Model Context Protocol server and its dependencies into an installation package in .dxt format. The tool adopts the standard ZIP compression format and contains all the server runtime files and the manifest.json describing the configuration, allowing developers to distribute AI capabilities without having to pay attention to the details of the environment configuration.DXT builds an open ecosystem through the open source specification, supports multi-language runtimes such as Node.js/Python, and runs on cross macOS/Windows/Linux platforms, and is currently being used by Claude Claude. platforms, and has been adopted by Claude Desktop and other applications.
This answer comes from the articleDesktop Extensions (DXT): Packaging tool to simplify local MCP server installationThe
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