Cowsay
Creates ASCII art speech and thought bubbles with customizable characters like cows, penguins, and dragons. Adds fun visual flair to text messages and conversations.
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.
What it does
- 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
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About Cowsay
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
Cowsay is released under the MIT license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.
Tools (4)
Generate ASCII art of a cow saying something.
Generate ASCII art of a cow thinking something.
List all available cow characters.
Get the current version of cowsay-mcp server.
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 messagecowthink: Generate ASCII art with a cow thinking your messagelist_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 cowsmall: A smaller version of the default cowtux: A penguin charactermoose: A moose charactersheep: A sheep characterdragon: A dragon characterelephant: An elephant characterskeleton: A skeleton characterstimpy: 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.
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