Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install mcptools

local Homebrew formula metadata

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

CLI for interacting with MCP servers using both stdio and HTTP transport

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

mcptools

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

MCP Tools is a command-line interface for inspecting, calling, testing, mocking, and proxying Model Context Protocol servers. Its README describes it as a Swiss Army knife for MCP servers, with support for stdio and HTTP transports, multiple output formats, an interactive shell, a web interface, aliases, config management, mock servers, and project scaffolding.

Projektgeschichte

The public GitHub repository was created in March 2025, during the first broad wave of standalone MCP utilities. The first GitHub release, v0.0.1, was published the same day as repository creation, and the project reached v0.7.1 by May 2025.

The README shows that the installed command may appear as `mcp`, `mcpt`, or `mcptools` depending on installation method and conflict avoidance. That naming detail is package-history relevant because `mcp` is a tempting but collision-prone binary name in the MCP ecosystem.

Adoptionsgeschichte

By July 2026, GitHub metadata showed about 1.6k stars and more than 100 forks, indicating meaningful adoption among MCP developers and operators. Its feature set is targeted at people building or debugging MCP servers rather than end users chatting with models.

The README includes Homebrew installation instructions via the project's tap as well as `go install`, showing the usual Go CLI distribution path: source install for cross-platform users and a package-manager path for macOS users.

Wie es verwendet wird

Common usage is to connect to an MCP server and list tools, resources, or prompts, then call a specific tool with JSON parameters. The README examples show using a filesystem MCP server over stdio, calling `read_file`, opening an interactive shell, and switching output among table, compact JSON, and pretty JSON formats.

For server developers, MCP Tools also provides mock server, proxy, guard, web UI, and scaffolding modes. That makes it less of a single-purpose client and more of a debugging and interoperability tool for MCP implementations.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

MCP Tools is significant because protocol ecosystems usually need practical inspection tools before they become comfortable to package and operate. For MCP, `mcptools` fills the role that `curl`, `grpcurl`, or `jq`-heavy scripts fill elsewhere: a small CLI you can install and use to prove what a server exposes.

Its binary-name story also captures a packaging problem in young ecosystems: the obvious command name `mcp` is valuable but can conflict, so formulas and installers need aliases or alternate executable names.

Zeitleiste

2025-03: Public GitHub repository created.
2025-03: v0.0.1 release published.
2025-05: v0.7.1 release published.
2026-07: Repository metadata shows about 1.6k stars and 124 forks.

Related projects

MCP Tools is related to MCP server implementations, MCP Inspector-style workflows, and clients such as MCPHost. It complements MCPM by inspecting and exercising servers after they have been installed or configured.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risikoklassifikator

blue Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · tool

Warum

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signale

text:http,server

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Build-Metadaten listen 1 Build-Abhängigkeiten.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`mcptools`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-25

Manager-Version0.7.1

Manager aktualisiert

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamaktuell

neueste erkannte Versionv0.7.1

https://github.com/f/mcptools

InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:mcptools
Version	0.7.1
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mcptools
Homepage	https://github.com/f/mcptools
Repository	https://github.com/f/mcptools
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://github.com/f/mcptools#readme
Lizenz	MIT
Quellarchiv	https://github.com/f/mcptools/archive/refs/tags/v0.7.1.tar.gz
Build-Abhängigkeiten	go
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	mcptools
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

Paketgraph

Links stammen aus dem lokalen Paketbeziehungsgraph, Ergänzungen, Abhängigkeitskanten, Ecosystem-Matches und Paket-Hub-Mitgliedschaft.

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/mcptools.yml

Verwendete Quellen

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

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