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Can Claude create a PDF file?

Not on its own. a chat AI can't run programs or write files on your computer. With the GUI Hub Essentials MCP server installed, Claude (Desktop or Code), Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients can create a PDF locally: the assistant calls the typst_write tool, which runs Typst on your machine. Files are not uploaded.

Set it up (2 minutes)

  1. Claude Code / Cursor / VS Code / Windsurf: add the MCP server
    npx -y https://guihub.cc/mcp.tgz --product=essentials
    Claude Code: claude mcp add gui-hub-essentials -- npx -y https://guihub.cc/mcp.tgz --product=essentials
  2. Claude Desktop: download the one-file extension and double-click it.
  3. No AI? GUI Hub Essentials is also a point-and-click desktop app.

Then ask

“Write my March invoice to Acme as a PDF.”

What the AI gets

typst_write — Create a typeset PDF file on the user's computer from Typst markup you write (pass the full document in `source`). Typst syntax: `= Heading`, `*bold*`, `_italic_`, `- item`, `#table(columns: 2, [a], [b])`, `#set page(paper: "a4")`, `#set text(font: "New Computer Modern")`. Built-in fonts work offline. Relative image paths resolve inside `assets`.

InputType
source*string
out*string
assetsstring

Cost

Free to install; each tool has 3 free uses. Then $9 once for all of GUI Hub Essentials (no subscription). The tool tells the assistant when free uses run out and how to unlock.

Powered by Typst (Apache-2.0), the official release, verified by SHA-256. GUI Hub is independent and not affiliated with Typst, Anthropic, Cursor or Microsoft.

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