macOS
Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install mcphostlocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew
Installer mcphost avec Homebrew, Nix, zypper
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de mcphost pour les workflows d'agents IA.
installation
Commandes d'installation supplémentaires
Linux
Nixvérifié · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#mcphostnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/mc/mcphost/package.nix · Source: api.github.com
openSUSE zyppervérifié · 92%
sudo zypper install mcphostopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · mcphost · Source: download.opensuse.org
aperçu
Résumé du paquet
CLI host for LLMs to interact with tools via MCP
Liens du projet
Commandes et alias
- mcphost
historique
Historique du projet et usages
MCPHost is a command-line host application that lets large language models use external tools through the Model Context Protocol. In package terms it is a local, installable MCP client/host: the user configures MCP servers once, chooses a model provider, and interacts with tools from a terminal.
Historique du projet
The project was created publicly on GitHub in December 2024, soon after MCP became a common protocol for connecting tools to LLM clients. Its README describes MCPHost as a CLI that supports interactive chat, non-interactive prompts, YAML-based scripts, configurable MCP servers, hooks, multiple model providers, and multiple MCP transports.
MCPHost's configuration story evolved around home-directory YAML or JSON files. The current README says it prefers `.mcphost.yml` or `.mcphost.json`, while retaining `.mcp.yml` and `.mcp.json` for backwards compatibility, which reflects the fast-moving naming conventions of early MCP tooling.
Historique d'adoption
By July 2026, GitHub metadata showed about 1.6k stars and more than 200 forks, enough to make it one of the better-known standalone terminal hosts for MCP workflows. Its release history on GitHub starts with v0.4.3 in January 2025 and reaches v0.34.0 by February 2026.
The project's adoption comes from users who want a model-and-tool terminal rather than a specific desktop app. The README documents providers such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Ollama, and OpenAI-compatible endpoints, which helped it fit mixed local and hosted model setups.
Modes d'utilisation
A typical user installs `mcphost`, places MCP server definitions in `~/.mcphost.yml` or a compatible JSON/YAML file, and starts an interactive session with `mcphost`. The same binary can also run one-shot prompts with `-p`, choose models with `--model`, override provider URLs and API keys with flags, or execute script files with YAML front matter.
For MCP configuration, the README documents local, remote, and builtin server types mapped to stdio, streamable HTTP, and in-process transports. It also supports environment-variable substitution in config files, which is the documented way to keep API keys out of committed configuration.
Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent
MCPHost is package-nerd interesting because it packages the host side of MCP as a single CLI rather than requiring a GUI client. That makes it useful in shell scripts, CI jobs, demos, and reproducible examples where a Homebrew or Nix install is easier to explain than editor-specific setup.
Its backwards-compatible config filenames also show a common early-ecosystem pattern: tools stabilized around MCP names while retaining older generic `.mcp` files so existing users did not have to rewrite local setups.
Chronologie
- 2024-12: GitHub repository created.
- 2025-01: v0.4.3 release published.
- 2025: README documents preferred `.mcphost` config files plus backwards-compatible `.mcp` config files.
- 2026-02: v0.34.0 release published.
Related projects
- MCPHost is related to MCP server packages such as MCP Toolbox for Databases and to inspection/interaction tools such as mcptools. It also overlaps with MCP-aware coding clients and agent CLIs, but its niche is hosting model conversations and MCP servers directly from the terminal.
Sources
posture de sécurité
Niveau de risque : vert
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Classificateur de risque
risque vert · confiance faible · appliance
Pourquoi
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signaux
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Comportement d'installation
- Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
- Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 6 plateformes.
- Les métadonnées de compilation listent 1 dépendances de compilation.
Revue recommandée
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/.mcphost.yml~/.mcphost.json~/.mcp.yml~/.mcp.json- Windows
%USERPROFILE%\.mcphost.yml%USERPROFILE%\.mcphost.json%USERPROFILE%\.mcp.yml%USERPROFILE%\.mcp.json
exécutables
Exécutables installés
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
mcphost | cli | exécutable global |
fraîcheur
Version et fraîcheur
Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.
page générée2026-07-25
version du gestionnaire0.34.0
gestionnaire mis à jour2026-07-17
données localesOK
amontà jour
dernière version détectéev0.34.0
https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost
- OKAucun avertissement de fraîcheur n'a été généré.
métadonnées d'installation
Métadonnées du paquet
| Clé du paquet | brew:mcphost |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.34.0 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page du gestionnaire de paquets | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mcphost |
| Page d'accueil | https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost |
| Dépôt | https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost |
| Docs amont | https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost#readme |
| Licence | MIT |
| Archive source | https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost/archive/refs/tags/v0.34.0.tar.gz |
| Dernière mise à jour | 2026-07-17T17:20:41+09:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dépendances de compilation | go |
| Bouteille | disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| post-install Homebrew | non défini |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
faits du registre
Détails de la base source
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | mcphost |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | yes |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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correspondances dans les bases sources
Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets
Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.
Nix95%
mcphost
nix profile install nixpkgs#mcphost- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Mcphost
zypper95%
mcphost 0.34.0-8.1
A CLI host application for the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost
sudo zypper install mcphost- License: MIT and Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: mcphost
- 1 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Mcphost
zypper95%
mcphost-bash-completion 0.34.0-8.1
Bash Completion for mcphost
https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost
sudo zypper install mcphost-bash-completion- License: MIT and Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause
- Category: System/Shells
- Architecture: noarch
- Source Package: mcphost
- 2 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Mcphost
zypper95%
mcphost-fish-completion 0.34.0-8.1
Fish Completion for mcphost
https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost
sudo zypper install mcphost-fish-completion- License: MIT and Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause
- Category: System/Shells
- Architecture: noarch
- Source Package: mcphost
- 1 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Mcphost
zypper95%
mcphost-zsh-completion 0.34.0-8.1
ZSH Completion for mcphost
https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost
sudo zypper install mcphost-zsh-completion- License: MIT and Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause
- Category: System/Shells
- Architecture: noarch
- Source Package: mcphost
- 1 Dépendances
- 1 fournit
- normalized package name match
- Correspondance par : Mcphost
piste source
Généré depuis les données du dépôt
Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Sources utilisées
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment