Part of the CLIO Kit scientific computing toolkit from IoWarp, this server exposes gzip compression operations through MCP. It's one of 16 servers designed to help AI agents work with HPC resources and scientific data formats. The compression tooling handles basic file compression tasks, letting you compress and decompress files through natural language requests rather than manual CLI work. Built for research environments where you're shuttling data between systems and need to compress results without context switching. Ships as part of the broader clio-kit package alongside HDF5, Slurm, Pandas, and other scientific computing servers. Install with uvx and run it standalone or combine it with the other CLIO servers for full workflow coverage.
claude mcp add --transport stdio io.github.iowarp-compression-mcp uvx compression-mcp