Install Screaming Frog SEO Spider MCP Server (headless) in Amp
What you need first
- Amp, installed.
- uv, which
gives the
uvxcommand the server starts with.
Steps
- Open
~/.codex/config.toml, or create it. The Codex CLI, its IDE extension and the ChatGPT desktop app share this file. - Add this table at the end of the file.
{
"amp.mcpServers": {
"screaming-frog-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["screaming-frog-mcp==0.4.3"]
}
}
} - Save the file and restart Amp.
Check it worked
Ask Amp: List the tools of screaming-frog-mcp.
If it does not start
- spawn uvx ENOENT
- uv is not on the PATH that Amp sees. Install it, or write the
full path of
uvxin the config. - Nothing changes after a restart
- The file is not valid JSON any more. Look for a missing comma where the block was added.