Set up Varial MCP

Give AI tools read-only context from your project.

3 min readUpdated Sep 14, 2026

Varial MCP is a local server that answers questions about your project. Every tool is a read.

Add it to your client

json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "varial": {
      "command": "varial-mcp-server",
      "args": ["--root", "."]
    }
  }
}

What it can do

  • varial.project.status for a project summary
  • varial.tokens.list for design tokens
  • varial.udo.validate to check one object
  • varial.patch.dryRun to try a change in memory
  • varial.context.pack for everything about the open file