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Cowsay▌

by mrseanchow

Create fun conversations with Cowsay, an ASCII art generator with 9 character variants for whimsical text formatting and

Generates ASCII art speech and thought bubbles using the cowsay library with 9 character variants including tux, dragon, elephant, and skeleton for adding whimsical text formatting to conversations.

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9 character variants availableClassic Unix cowsay functionality

best for

/ Adding humor to chat conversations
/ Creating fun terminal output in development
/ Generating ASCII art for documentation or presentations

capabilities

/ Generate ASCII art speech bubbles with custom messages
/ Create thought bubble ASCII art
/ Choose from 9 different characters including tux, dragon, elephant
/ List available character variants

what it does

Creates ASCII art speech and thought bubbles with customizable characters like cows, penguins, and dragons. Adds fun visual flair to text messages and conversations.

about

Cowsay is a community-built MCP server published by mrseanchow that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Create fun conversations with Cowsay, an ASCII art generator with 9 character variants for whimsical text formatting and It is categorized under other. This server exposes 4 tools that AI clients can invoke during conversations and coding sessions.

how to install

You can install Cowsay in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport.

license

MIT

Cowsay is released under the MIT license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.

readme

cowsay-mcp

Cowsay MCP Server, providing ASCII art cow capabilities for LLMs. This implementation allows language models to generate fun ASCII art cows with custom messages.

🛠️ Tools

cowsay: Generate ASCII art with a cow saying your message
cowthink: Generate ASCII art with a cow thinking your message
list_cows: List all available cow characters

📦 Installation

Installing via Smithery

To install cowsay-mcp for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @mrseanchow/cowsay-mcp --client claude

Manual Installation

npm install -g cowsay-mcp

Using npx

npx -y cowsay-mcp

🚀 Running on Cursor

Add this to your mcp.json file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cowsay-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "cowsay-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

🌊 Running on Windsurf

Add this to your ./codeium/windsurf/model_config.json file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cowsay-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "cowsay-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

🎨 Available Cow Characters

The server provides a wide variety of cow characters, including but not limited to:

default: The classic cow
small: A smaller version of the default cow
tux: A penguin character
moose: A moose character
sheep: A sheep character
dragon: A dragon character
elephant: An elephant character
skeleton: A skeleton character
stimpy: A Stimpy character

And many more! Use the list_cows tool to see all available characters.

📝 Example Usage

cowsay Tool

{
  "name": "cowsay",
  "parameters": {
    "message": "Hello from LLM!",
    "cow": "tux"
  }
}

cowthink Tool

{
  "name": "cowthink",
  "parameters": {
    "message": "What should I say next?",
    "cow": "moose"
  }
}

list_cows Tool

{
  "name": "list_cows",
  "parameters": {}
}

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.