NCP - Natural Context Provider (NCP) Details

NCP is a unified MCP platform that consolidates 50+ tools, skills, and Photons into a single, intelligent interface. It enables code-mode execution, on-demand loading, scheduling, and semantic tool discovery, dramatically reducing token usage and latency while enabling AI assistants to work with external MCPs, skills, and Photons. This documentation covers how NCP works, the available MCPs and tools, installation and integration steps for popular clients (Claude Desktop, VS Code, and more), and practical examples that demonstrate how to find, run, and compose tools across MCPs. Whether you’re building with internal MCPs or exploring external tools, NCP provides a scalable, vendor-agnostic foundation for AI-powered automation and tool orchestration.

Use Case

NCP acts as a single entry point to discover and execute tools across multiple MCPs, skills, and Photons. It enables semantic tool discovery with the find command, code-mode execution for composing multi-step TypeScript workflows, and run for executing tools individually. It also supports scheduling, so you can automate recurring tasks. Example usage includes discovering the right tool with find, writing a TypeScript workflow with code that calls tools such as web.search and filesystem read_file, and then scheduling that workflow to run on a schedule. Example from docs: const results = await web.search({ query: "Model Context Protocol conference 2025" }); for (const url of results) { const content = await web.read({ url }); } These patterns show how to integrate external MCPs like filesystem, github, brave-search, and web photon capabilities into a cohesive automation and AI-workflow surface.

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Examples & Tutorials

Real example code and usage patterns directly from the documentation:

<h1 class="text-2xl font-semibold mt-5 mb-3">Install NCP</h1>
npm install -g @portel/ncp

<h1 class="text-2xl font-semibold mt-5 mb-3">Import existing MCPs (optional)</h1>
ncp config import # Paste your config JSON when prompted

<h1 class="text-2xl font-semibold mt-5 mb-3">Configure your MCP client</h1>
{
"mcpServers": {
"ncp": {
"command": "ncp"
}
}
}

<h1 class="text-2xl font-semibold mt-5 mb-3">Quick Example: General CLI usage</h1>
<h1 class="text-2xl font-semibold mt-5 mb-3">See your imported MCPs</h1>
ncp list

<h1 class="text-2xl font-semibold mt-5 mb-3">Direct testing example from docs</h1>
ncp run filesystem read_file --path "/tmp/test.txt"

// A Real Example from the docs
// Search the web for MCP conferences
const results = await web.search({
query: "Model Context Protocol conference 2025"
});

// Read each result
for (const url of results) {
const content = await web.read({ url });
// Save to ~/.ncp/mcp-conferences.csv
}

<h1 class="text-2xl font-semibold mt-5 mb-3">Scheduling example from docs</h1>
ncp schedule create code:run "every day at 9am" \
--name "MCP Conference Scraper" \
--catchup-missed

Installation Guide

Step-by-step from the documentation:
1) Install NCP globally

npm install -g @portel/ncp

2) Import existing MCPs (optional)
ncp config import  # Paste your config JSON when prompted

3) Configure your MCP client with a sample config:
{
"mcpServers": {
"ncp": {
"command": "ncp"
}
}
}

4) Verify installed tools
ncp list

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Important Notes

Key notes from the docs: - NCP provides a single, unified interface for MCPs, skills, and Photons. - On-demand loading and code-mode execution help reduce token usage and improve responsiveness. - There is an emphasis on vendor-agnostic, plug-and-play MCPs; integrate via the CLI and standard JSON configs. - You can import MCPs, and then configure clients to see only NCP as the tool surface in the AI client.

Prerequisites

Node.js 18+ (Node.js 18.x recommended), npm (included with Node.js) or npx for running packages, and command line access (Terminal on Mac/Linux, Command Prompt/PowerShell on Windows).

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Last Updated1/1/2026
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